Special Issues

In this section we provide information about Special Issues linked to the 2025 R&D Management Conference. 

Journal of Engineering and Technology Management

Innovation and technologies at the service of Sustainable Development: how are complying Cultural and Creative Industries?

This Special Issue aims at investigating how the several CCIs’ sectors are complying with sustainable development and what kinds of innovations and technologies these industries are adopting to achieve this goal.

Guest editors: Prof. Elisa Salvador, Professor (PhD, HDR) of Innovation and Creativity at ESSCA School of Management, France, corresponding editor Prof. Giovanna Segre (PhD), Associate Professor in Economic Policy at the Department of Economics and Statistics ‘Cognetti De Martiis’ of the University of Turin, Italy

Journal of Strategy and Management

Fostering Biodiversity Through Entrepreneurship: Strategies for Sustainable Ecosystems – Emerald Publishing

The primary aim of this Special Issue (SI) is to explore the evolving relationship between entrepreneurship and biodiversity, focusing on how entrepreneurial activities can strategically contribute to sustainable economic growth while supporting ecosystem regeneration. The SI aims to highlight the role of innovative business models, systemic innovation, and digital tools in addressing …

Guest editor(s) Ciro Troise, Gabriella Esposito, Stefano Bresciani

R&D MANAGEMENT

Innovation and Biodiversity

The present call involves the Special Issue linked to the R&D Management Conference
which will take place in Pisa in 2025 (June 28- July 2) (https://rnd2025.org/). The topic of both
the Conference and the Special Issue is “Innovation and Biodiversity”.

Guest editor(s) Jacopo Cricchio, Alberto Di Minin, Giulio Ferrigno, Paavo Ritala, Philip Shapira, Judith L. Walls