Call for Papers in IDP

  • 08 10, 2022
  Innovation and Development Policy (IDP)

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    Special Issue: Digital Innovation and Policy

    

    Guest Editors

    

    Jiang Wei, Zhejiang University

    Yang Liu, Zhejiang University

    

    Contact:

    Yang Liu, Zhejiang University, yangliu@zju.edu.cn  

   

  Digital innovation, broadly defined as incorporating emerging digital artifacts such as Artificial Intelligence, Blockchain, Cloud, and Big Data with physical artifacts as well as organization system, has been transforming today’s business and societal world (Hund et al., 2021; Wang, 2021). However, jumping into the pool of the digital economy, not all actors are prepared to swim well. Innovation policy thus is mandate for supporting digital technology adoption, digital entrepreneurship, R&D capacities for digital innovations, and addressing emerging social challenges caused by digital innovations (Planes-Satorra & Paunov, 2019). Therefore, digital innovation and policy has captured great attention of both policy makers and scholars (Boudreau et al., 2022; Liu et al., 2022; Li et al., 2021; Yang & Huang, 2022). For example, in April 2021, the Digital Europe programme has initiated for financially supporting in digital infrastructure in Europe. In December 2021, China has issued the “14th Five-Year” Digital Economy Development Plan, which included systematical policy mix for driving digital economy in China.

  Understanding digital innovation policy is complex. For example, Liu et al. (2022) find that IPR regime plays opposite roles at different stages of profiting from digital innovations by manufacturing firms. Moreover, China’s “Strong regulations” on platform in 2021 have significantly affected its digital economy (Huang, 2022). In fact, digital innovations and transformation involves fundamental changes in economic and social system. A sociotechnical systems theory proposes that when we look at digital innovation, we should focus on coherent systems of digital technologies, human relations, and social society (Mousavi Baygi et al., 2021). Encompassing both technical and social aspects when investigating digital innovation and policy will not only help us understand the phenomenon, but also provide promising avenues for extending existing theories and building new theories (Hund et al., 2021).

  Focusing on digital innovation and policy, our special issue tries to provide an avenue for understanding how to develop innovation policy systems for digital innovations. We believe that it is important to analyze how balanced and well-aligned policy mixes could promote digital innovations. The proposed special issue seeks to bring together papers that address these issues from a variety of perspectives, across different industries, and at multiple levels of analysis. Therefore, the aim of the Special Issue is to assemble high quality papers that contribute towards both theoretical and practical development in the context of digital innovation and policy. Submissions with a strong connection between theory and practice are particularly welcomed. We invite works on the following topics, but are not limited to:

  l  Policy mixes and digital innovations

  l  Digital infrastructure evolution

  l  Adapting policies at different stages of digital technology maturity

  l  Cross-sectoral collaboration for digital innovations

  l  Governance of digital platform

  l  Profiting from digital innovations

  l  Digital innovation ecosystems

  l  Institutions and digital innovations

  l  Innovation policy and digital transformation

  l  Policy for digital entrepreneurship

  l  Innovation driven entrepreneurship in digital era

  l  Digital innovation and policy for the SDGs

  l  ….

   

  Editorial Process

  The editorial process will consist of three stages. In the first stage, papers will be sent for double-blind review to three reviewers. Authors whose papers receive a revise and re-submit will be invited to a special developmental workshop organized by the Guest Editors, which will be held at the Zhejiang University in Hangzhou, China. Funding has been provided for this workshop, which will allow us to pay for accommodation and meals for one author and assigned discussants for each paper. Authors would then be invited to revise and resubmit their papers based on the reviewers’ comments and comments from workshop participants. The papers will be reviewed again externally, with final decisions made in the final stage.

   

  Time Frame for the Special Issue

  Solicitation of papers: October 2022

  Deadline for submissions March, 2023

  First round external reviews process April, 2023 - July, 2023

  Authors receiving a request to revise and re-submit also notified of acceptance to the special issue workshop

  Special issue workshop: August 2023 at Zhejiang University

  Second round reviews: September to November

  Delivery to Innovation and Development Policy: December 2023

  Submit

     Please submit your paper via our journal website: http://mc03.manuscriptcentral.com/idp

   

  References:

Boudreau, K. J., Jeppesen, L. B., & Miric, M., 2022. Profiting  from digital innovation: Patents, copyright and performance. Research Policy, 51(5), 104477.

Chen, L., Li, S., Wei, J., & Yang, Y., 2022. Externalization in the platform economy: Social platforms and institutions. Journal of International Business Studies, 1-12.

Dai, X., Li, Y., & Chen, K., 2021. Direct demand-pull and indirect certification effects of public procurement for innovation. Technovation, 101, 102198.

Li, J., Li, J., Xie, Z., & Jiao, J., 2021. Exploring Digital Innovation: Emergence of the New, Transformation of the Old, and the Impact of Institutions. International Journal of Technology Management, 87(3/4), 105-112.

Liu, Y., Dong, J., Mei, L., & Shen, R., 2022. Digital innovation and performance of manufacturing firms: An affordance perspective. Technovation, 102458.

Liu, Y., Dong, J., Ying, Y., & Jiao, H., 2021. Status and digital innovation: A middle-status conformity perspective. Technological Forecasting and Social Change, 168, 120781.

Boudreau, K. J., Jeppesen, L. B., & Miric, M., 2022. Profiting  from digital innovation: Patents, copyright and performance. Research Policy, 51(5), 104477.

Chen, L., Li, S., Wei, J., & Yang, Y., 2022. Externalization in the platform economy: Social platforms and institutions. Journal of International Business Studies, 1-12.

Dai, X., Li, Y., & Chen, K., 2021. Direct demand-pull and indirect certification effects of public procurement for innovation. Technovation, 101, 102198.

Li, J., Li, J., Xie, Z., & Jiao, J., 2021. Exploring Digital Innovation: Emergence of the New, Transformation of the Old, and the Impact of Institutions. International Journal of Technology Management, 87(3/4), 105-112.

Liu, Y., Dong, J., Mei, L., & Shen, R., 2022. Digital innovation and performance of manufacturing firms: An affordance perspective. Technovation, 102458.

Liu, Y., Dong, J., Ying, Y., & Jiao, H., 2021. Status and digital innovation: A middle-status conformity perspective. Technological Forecasting and Social Change, 168, 120781.

Huang, Y., 2022. ‘Strong regulations’ of China’s platform economy: a preliminary assessment. China Economic Journal, 15(2), 125-138.

Hund, A., Wagner, H. T., Beimborn, D., & Weitzel, T., 2021. Digital innovation: Review and novel perspective. The Journal of Strategic Information Systems, 30(4), 101695.

Mousavi Baygi, R., Introna, L. and Hultin, L., 2021. Everything Flows: Studying Continuous Socio-Technological Transformation in a Fluid and Dynamic Digital World. MIS Quarterly, 45(1), pp.423-452.

Planes-Satorra, S. and C. Paunov, 2019. The digital innovation policy landscape in 2019, OECD Science, Technology and Industry Policy Papers, No. 71, OECD Publishing, Paris, https://doi.org/10.1787/6171f649-en.

Yang, C., & Huang, C., 2022. Quantitative mapping of the evolution of AI policy distribution, targets and focuses over three decades in China. Technological Forecasting and Social Change, 174, 121188.

Wang, P., 2021. Connecting the Parts with the Whole: Toward an Information Ecology Theory of Digital Innovation Ecosystems. MIS Quarterly, 45(1), 397-422.

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