Dear colleagues,
On behalf of Industry and Innovation, we would like to bring to your attention the seventh and eighth issues of Industry and Innovation in 2025, featuring research at the intersection of innovation, sustainability, and global competitiveness.
Issue 7 explores how firms and regions navigate digital transformation, industry evolution, and business cycles, adding insights on the human and institutional dimensions of innovation. It includes articles on the relationship between R&D investment and employees' labour market performance, the role of regional relatedness in digital technology adoption, public funding in the energy transition, and university–industry linkages in building resilience.
Issue 8 focuses on the dynamics of knowledge, talent, and collaboration in driving innovation and sustainability. Contributions analyze the connection between eco-innovation and employment in China, the impact of global high-skilled migration networks in host countries' knowledge production, the role of "star" inventors in team deference, and the relationship between co-mobility and employee career evolution after organizational failure. The issue also features a thought-provoking "target article" on using sports as a fertile context for strategy and innovation research, summarizing the key arguments discussed during one of the 2024 Druid Debates.
We hope you will enjoy the reading:
Issue 8
Is eco-innovation employment-friendly? Evidence from China
Sanfeng Zhang, Xueping Wu, Tian Zhou, Feng Wang & Jing Yang
Knowledge spillovers through high-skilled migration network: evidence from OECD countries
Saverio Barabuffi, Valeria Costantini, Valerio Leone Sciabolazza & Elena Paglialunga
Star inventors, knowledge complexity and collaborative ties: what drives deference in invention teams?
Metin Onal Vural & Simon J.D. Schillebeeckx
All aboard! co-mobility, human capital, and labor market prospects after organizational failure
Agnieszka Nowinska, Valentina Tartari & Ram Mudambi
Sports as a context in strategy and innovation research: promises, challenges, and broader implications
Annamaria Conti, Christoph Grimpe, Elisa Operti & Jan-Michael Ross
Issue 7
How employees are affected by working in R&D-investing firms
Yifei Wang
Digitalisation in European regions: unravelling the impact of relatedness and complexity on digital technology adoption and productivity growth
Stefan Apostol & Eduardo Hernández-Rodríguez
Promoting clean energy transition and industry emergence: leveraging public funding for the commercialisation of fuel cell technologies
I. Kim Wang & Lihong Qian
University-to-industry knowledge transfers and firms' resilience during the great recession: evidence for Spanish firms
Dolores Añón Higón & Óscar Vicente-Chirivella
Best regards
Alessandra Perri and Vera Rocha
Co-Editors in Chief, Industry and Innovation
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Alessandra Perri
Luiss University
Rome
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