Dear colleagues,
To start 2023 in full swing, Industry and Innovation has just published a Special Issue on Firms and Innovation in the New Industrial Paradigm of the Digital Transformation. This Special issue includes a collection of six original papers on how firms face digital transformation from three different angles: the antecedents of firms' digital transformation, the implementation of digital transformation within firms and the patterns of its unfolding, and some of the techno-economic effects of digital transformation.
The Guest Editors (Elena Cefis, Riccardo Leoncini, Luigi Marengo, and Sandro Montresor) have also prepared an open-access Editorial providing a very unique perspective on the topic. You will find a variety of theoretical backgrounds, data sources, and empirical methodologies, along with several original results with managerial and policy relevance.
What a great way to kick-off the new year at Industry and Innovation! We hope you will enjoy the reading:
Firms and innovation in the new industrial paradigm of the digital transformation
Elena Cefis, Riccardo Leoncini, Luigi Marengo & Sandro Montresor
Coding for intangible competitive advantage - mapping the distribution and characteristics of software-developing firms in the Swedish economy
Martin Andersson, Anna Kusetogullari & Joakim Wernberg
A managerial mental model to drive innovation in the context of digital transformation
Danielly de Paula, Carolin Marx, Ella Wolf, Christian Dremel, Kathryn Cormican & Falk Uebernickel
Digital Transformation of the Automotive Industry: An Integrating Framework to Analyse Technological Novelty and Breadth
Henry Lopez-Vega & Jerker Moodysson
Education, routine, and complexity-biased Key Enabling Technologies: evidence from Emilia-Romagna, Italy
Roberto Antonietti, Luca Cattani, Francesca Gambarotto & Giulio Pedrini
Disrupting regional efficiency gaps via Industry 4.0 firm investments
Antonio Fabio Forgione & Carlo Migliardo
New digital technologies and firm performance in the Italian economy
Valeria Cirillo, Lucrezia Fanti, Andrea Mina & Andrea Ricci
Best regards
Alessandra Perri and Vera Rocha
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Alessandra Perri
Luiss Business School & Dept. Business and Management, Luiss University
Rome
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