Call for Paper for Industry & Innovation Special Issue edited by Elena Huergo

Special Issue on Digital and Green Transitions: 

Handling the Economic and Social Challenges

Special Issue Editor(s)
Dario Diodato, European Commission – JRC
dario.diodato@ec.europa.eu
Elena Huergo, Universidad Complutense Madrid
ehuergo@ccee.ucm.es
Pietro Moncada-Paternò-Castello, European Commission – JRC
pietro.moncada-paterno-castello@ec.europa.eu
Francesco Rentocchini, European Commission – JRC and University of Milan
francesco.rentocchini@unimi.it
Bram Timmermans, Norwegian School of Economics

Bram.Timmermans@nhh.no

This special issue aims to bridge the current lack of evidence on the digital and environmental twin transition for the advancement of the field of economics and management of innovation. It aims to collect relevant research building directly or indirectly upon the two legs of the twin transition (digital, green and most importantly both). Finally, it aims at drawing academic and policy-relevant insights in relation to the implementation and relevant consequences of the twin transition at the economic, social and country/regional levels of analysis. Original manuscripts with empirical analyses based on micro-data are especially welcome.

Research Topics

Based on the above-introduced background, suggested topics for the Special Issue include, but are not limited to, the following:

Innovation and the digital/green transitions

• Innovation and digital/green transformations in times of recovery
• Sustainable technology product space (relevant activities including and beyond green patents, innovative FDI, value chain)
• Corporate strategies and investment for the digital/green transitions
• Industrial dynamics in the green/digital transitions
• New data and methods for monitoring, anticipating, and analysing corporate R&D and innovation in the digital/green transitions
• Industry innovation undertakings to deal with Sustainable Development Goals (SDG).

Economic, social and geographical consequences of the digital/green transitions

• Digital/green transitions and the role of gender
• New skills / jobs and employment dynamics following digital/green transitions
• Innovative digital/green SMEs: finance, start-up, survival and growth
• Greening/digitalisation of the economy and territorial inequalities
• Digital/green transitions and global value chains.

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