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  • Open Access
28 Citations
6,285 Views
18 Pages

18 January 2019

As a purposive sustainability transition requires environmental innovation and innovation policy, we discuss potentials and limitations of three dominant strands of literature in this field, namely the multi-level perspective on socio-technical trans...

  • Review
  • Open Access
35 Citations
7,532 Views
17 Pages

18 August 2019

This paper aims to contribute to the understanding of the potential of Social Innovation (SI) for social transformation. Being a popular concept, SI has been discussed for decades, increasingly recognized for its complexity. A systematic review of th...

  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
3,780 Views
15 Pages

Exploring the Role of Latin American Universities in the Implementation of Transformative Innovation Policy

  • Eliana Villa-Enciso,
  • Jhonjali García-Mosquera,
  • Alejandro Valencia-Arias and
  • Carlos Javier Medina-Valderrama

25 August 2023

Transformative Innovation Policy (TIP) is a new paradigm in science, technology, and innovation policy that seeks to produce a transition to sustainable development. In this paradigm, universities are crucial actors in the dynamics of science, techno...

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  • Article
  • Open Access
23 Citations
8,769 Views
40 Pages

10 June 2020

This article empirically applies, tests, and refines a conceptual framework that articulates three dimensions of transformative impact and transformative capacity: depth, width, and length. This responds to the need for a more precise conceptual lang...

  • Review
  • Open Access
4 Citations
3,626 Views
22 Pages

Transformative Social Innovation as a Guideline to Enhance the Sustainable Development Goals’ Framework

  • Leonardo Pamplona,
  • Marcos Estellita Lins,
  • Amanda Xavier and
  • Mariza Almeida

19 August 2024

To achieve the objectives of reversing ongoing social and environmental degradation, there is an urgent need to accelerate efforts towards more sustainable and regenerative socio-technical systems. The 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) of the U...

  • Article
  • Open Access
45 Citations
11,789 Views
21 Pages

1 March 2019

Learning processes play a crucial role in the development of the transformative capacity of social innovation actors. This article builds on the recently developed Transformative Social Innovation (TSI) theory to propose a conceptual framework and re...

  • Article
  • Open Access
21 Citations
5,992 Views
33 Pages

26 March 2022

The currently used educational technology with artificial-intelligence-powered solutions, although rather instrumental, may lead to discontinuity in learning, as it lacks social and emotional value, which is an essential part of education for sustain...

  • Article
  • Open Access
23 Citations
7,420 Views
24 Pages

29 June 2022

Economic diversification is vital in achieving sustainable economic development, especially for countries relying on nonrenewable natural resources, such as oil and gas, in the case of the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) countries. Moreover, the globa...

  • Article
  • Open Access
17 Citations
8,702 Views
26 Pages

20 June 2022

This study investigated the role of public policy in transforming innovation systems into innovation ecosystems. Despite the numerous studies that examined the role of innovation policies in promoting innovation systems and the increasing attention p...

  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
4,127 Views
24 Pages

26 December 2024

Enhancing urban innovation resilience is crucial for adapting to change and pursuing innovation-driven, high-quality development. The global trend of digital transformation has profound implications for urban innovation; however, the specific effects...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
4,292 Views
23 Pages

Enterprise digital transformation has emerged as a key strategy for enhancing innovation capacity in the age of the digital economy. This article aims to analyze the influence mechanism of digital transformation on corporate innovation and evaluate t...

  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
3,655 Views
17 Pages

30 January 2024

With the ongoing intensification of VUCA environment, enhancing service innovation performance has become a crucial choice for enterprises striving for sustainable development. The emergence of digital transformation offers construction enterprises a...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
9,158 Views
20 Pages

25 July 2025

In the current era of a dynamic environment, organizations need to continuously innovate and transform to remain competitive. Digital transformation is an essential driver across organizations, including small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs), res...

  • Article
  • Open Access
82 Citations
12,675 Views
19 Pages

10 May 2018

Innovation plays a critical role in the sustainable development of the construction industry. This research aims at examining transformational leadership’s role in shaping employees’ innovative behavior by analyzing the mediating effect o...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
5,740 Views
25 Pages

15 November 2023

With the rapid advancement of digital technology, the banking industry has embarked on a journey of digital transformation. While existing literature primarily examines how these changes impact the banks themselves, our study focuses on a relatively...

  • Article
  • Open Access
687 Views
30 Pages

30 December 2025

Based on a sample of Chinese listed firms from 2010 to 2024, this study employs a complex adaptive systems (CAS) lens to investigate the spillover effects of core-firm digital transformation (CDT) on innovation within supply chain networks. It reveal...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,122 Views
22 Pages

19 December 2024

Intelligent transformation plays an important role in enhancing innovation capabilities. This study utilizes data from 5000 A-share firms in China to investigate the effects of intelligent transformation on innovation capability and to elucidate the...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,926 Views
19 Pages

3 September 2025

This research investigates how transformational leadership affects the innovative behavior of knowledge-based employees in Chinese high-tech enterprises, highlighting the mediating role of organizational innovation climate. It aims to reveal how lead...

  • Article
  • Open Access
42 Citations
6,221 Views
28 Pages

With the increasingly prominent energy and environmental problems, environmental innovation has become a critical path to achieving the goal of coordinating economic development and environmental protection fundamentally. This study aims to examine t...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
7,992 Views
18 Pages

7 July 2025

Whether and how digital transformation affects innovation in small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) remains to be examined. This study aims to answer this question using a sample of SMEs listed on the Chinese National Equities Exchange and Quotati...

  • Article
  • Open Access
19 Citations
5,582 Views
15 Pages

The era of the digital economy has ushered in a new development opportunity for the energy industry, and the role of digitalization in the green and low-carbon transformation process of the energy industry has received increasing attention. Based on...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
4,987 Views
21 Pages

6 September 2024

Taking the innovation chain (IC) as the perspective, we discuss the effect of digital transformation (DT) on enterprises’ green innovation (GI) using data from Chinese listed companies from 2013 to 2021. The results show that DT has a positive...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
3,504 Views
22 Pages

17 April 2025

While the influence of digital technologies on firms’ innovation performance has been examined in the digital transformation literature, the mechanism by which digital transformation affects innovation quality has remained largely unexplored. B...

  • Article
  • Open Access
40 Citations
8,204 Views
21 Pages

20 April 2023

In the digital economy context, enterprises’ competitive environment is changing rapidly. Historically, enterprises rely on a solitary fight to occupy the market. Now, enterprises should actively embed into digital technology innovation network...

  • Article
  • Open Access
70 Citations
63,984 Views
25 Pages

11 September 2024

In today’s competitive and globalized world, innovation is essential for organizational survival, offering a means for companies to address environmental impacts and social challenges. As innovation processes accelerate, managers need to rethin...

  • Article
  • Open Access
33 Citations
8,726 Views
18 Pages

Media organisations and their newsrooms are not structurally equipped to adapt to the dynamic transformation that is increasingly demanded of them. To change this, ten years ago, growing numbers of media organisations began founding journalism innova...

  • Article
  • Open Access
17 Citations
4,184 Views
15 Pages

6 April 2023

The impact of digital transformation on green innovation is widely discussed. However, existing studies mainly focus on the impact of the digital transformation of enterprises and fintech company development on environmental green innovation, while i...

  • Article
  • Open Access
18 Citations
5,423 Views
26 Pages

25 April 2023

With the increasing demand for digital innovation scenarios, it is important to complement and improve the policy system for the governance of digital innovation activities. Combining the previous research results on the analysis of antecedent variab...

  • Concept Paper
  • Open Access
13 Citations
9,743 Views
14 Pages

28 June 2020

Despite allusions to systemic elements in the conception of innovation more generally, and sustainable innovation in particular, the literature generally fails to capture many of the insights that systems science can bring to our understanding of the...

  • Article
  • Open Access
231 Citations
17,400 Views
20 Pages

Can Digital Transformation Promote Green Technology Innovation?

  • Long Xue,
  • Qianyu Zhang,
  • Xuemang Zhang and
  • Chengyu Li

20 June 2022

Using the index of the degree of digital transformation of enterprises constructed based on text analysis, and combining the data of Shanghai and Shenzhen A-share listed companies from 2007 to 2020, a panel data model was established to empirically s...

  • Article
  • Open Access
24 Citations
7,245 Views
20 Pages

2 August 2022

Text analysis was used in this study to construct the index of digital transformation degree in manufacturing enterprises. On this basis, an empirical test was conducted on the relationship between digital transformation, ambidextrous innovation, and...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,397 Views
26 Pages

15 July 2025

In the context of the explosive growth of the digital economy, how inter-organizational connectivity affects corporate ambidextrous innovation has emerged as a pressing issue in the current digital economy. Based on the perspectives of the innovation...

  • Review
  • Open Access
8 Citations
11,431 Views
28 Pages

2 April 2024

Digital transformation efforts as part of the Fourth Industrial Revolution promise to revolutionize engineering practices. However, given the multitude of technological choices and the diversity of potential investment decisions, many engineering ent...

  • Article
  • Open Access
159 Citations
16,403 Views
20 Pages

Innovation Systems for Transformations towards Sustainability? Taking the Normative Dimension Seriously

  • Michael P. Schlaile,
  • Sophie Urmetzer,
  • Vincent Blok,
  • Allan Dahl Andersen,
  • Job Timmermans,
  • Matthias Mueller,
  • Jan Fagerberg and
  • Andreas Pyka

6 December 2017

The aim of this article is to complement research on transformations towards sustainability by drawing upon the innovation systems (IS) framework. The IS framework already serves as a suitable and influential basis for research on processes of techno...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
3,028 Views
18 Pages

2 November 2022

The servitization transformation of manufacturing enterprises serves as an important impetus for the current high-quality development of the manufacturing industry. Relying on the institutional-based view, this paper investigates the effect of instit...

  • Article
  • Open Access
40 Citations
3,524 Views
17 Pages

Strategic Guidelines for the Intellectualization of Human Capital in the Context of Innovative Transformation

  • Aleksandra Kuzior,
  • Olena Arefieva,
  • Alona Kovalchuk,
  • Paulina Brożek and
  • Volodymyr Tytykalo

22 September 2022

Context and purpose: This study focuses on identifying the current qualities of enhancing the action of intellectualization of human capital. The main purpose of the article is to identify relevant strategic benchmarks for the intellectualization of...

  • Article
  • Open Access
187 Citations
15,472 Views
31 Pages

With the development of blockchain, big data, cloud computing and other new technologies, how to achieve innovative development and green sustainable development in digital transformation has become one of the key issues for enterprises to obtain and...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,876 Views
32 Pages

Research on Digital Transformation and the Innovation Model of SMMEs: The Case Study of PAYA

  • Yanmei Xu,
  • Yanan Zhang,
  • Xiang Li,
  • Ziqiang Wang and
  • Qiwen Zhang

13 April 2025

The rapid development of digital technology has prompted many enterprises to carry out digital transformation. For SMMEs (small- and medium-sized equipment manufacturing enterprises), digital transformation is not only a necessary measure to deal wit...

  • Article
  • Open Access
56 Citations
11,114 Views
23 Pages

Transforming Research and Innovation for Sustainable Food Systems—A Coupled-Systems Perspective

  • Kristiaan P. W. Kok,
  • Alanya C. L. den Boer,
  • Tomris Cesuroglu,
  • Marjoleine G. van der Meij,
  • Renée de Wildt-Liesveld,
  • Barbara J. Regeer and
  • Jacqueline E. W. Broerse

14 December 2019

Current research and innovation (R&I) systems are not equipped to fully serve as catalysts for the urgently needed transformation of food systems. Though research on food systems transformation (first order: ‘what?’) and transformativ...

  • Review
  • Open Access
30 Citations
12,590 Views
23 Pages

In recent years, the relationship between digital transformation and innovation became very popular topics, attracting extensive attention, and inspiring a number of documents. Although much literature discusses the intersection of both fields, most...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
5,489 Views
18 Pages

6 April 2023

In order to explore the effect and path of digital transformation on the product R&D performance of automobile enterprises, an empirical study was conducted based on data from 240 questionnaire surveys of automobile enterprises, and the influenci...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
6,001 Views
30 Pages

3 January 2025

In the current economic landscape, businesses are challenged by the dual imperatives of digital transformation and sustainability goals. While digital transformation is often heralded as a catalyst for innovation, its potential negative effects on gr...

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
4,467 Views
21 Pages

Effects of Digital Citizenship and Digital Transformation Enablers on Innovativeness and Problem-Solving Capabilities

  • Marko Slavković,
  • Katarina Pavlović,
  • Vesna Rašković Depalov,
  • Tamara Vučenović and
  • Marijana Bugarčić

3 June 2024

Doing business in the age of information abundance indicates the importance of developing information management skills, enabling the individuals to be more productive but also more flexible to changes. In literature, innovation, as a driver of a fir...

  • Article
  • Open Access
20 Citations
4,421 Views
22 Pages

10 July 2022

Taking the A-share listed companies in Shanghai and Shenzhen from 2013 to 2020 as the research object, this paper discusses the impact of innovation on high-quality development at the enterprise level and evaluates the effectiveness of the current tr...

  • Article
  • Open Access
23 Citations
11,416 Views
19 Pages

8 February 2023

The industrial sector is now undergoing digital revolution and upgrade, and it is of strategic significance to study how enterprise digitalization affects enterprise innovation. This paper develops a theoretical model of how digital transformation af...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
3,851 Views
27 Pages

11 February 2025

Ecological protection and sustainable economic development are focal points of global attention. The continuous promotion of green technology during digital transformation has made green innovation essential for reducing environmental pollution and a...

  • Article
  • Open Access
66 Citations
12,081 Views
18 Pages

23 February 2022

The purpose of this study is to review studies on innovation and identify factors that affect the acceleration of digital economic innovation. This study also analyzes the impact of economic innovation on social systems. A systematic literature revie...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
946 Views
34 Pages

26 November 2025

This paper utilizes panel data from Chinese A-share listed energy companies on the Shanghai and Shenzhen stock exchanges from 2007 to 2022, employing methods such as the three-step method and bootstrap decomposition to explore the relationship betwee...

  • Article
  • Open Access
55 Citations
18,109 Views
23 Pages

25 March 2023

ESG is a sustainable development concept that integrates environmental, social, and corporate governance. Most studies on ESG have been conducted based on secondary data from listed companies and have not used questionnaires as a method for analysis....

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
3,659 Views
21 Pages

Impact of Digital Transformation on Green Innovation in Manufacturing under Dual Carbon Targets

  • Jianliang Yang,
  • Hongbo Shan,
  • Penglong Xian,
  • Xiaomeng Xu and
  • Na Li

3 September 2024

The development of green innovation in the manufacturing industry is crucial for sustainability, as it can lead to significant environmental and economic benefits. Meanwhile, the impact of digital transformation on green innovation in the manufacturi...

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