In this section we provide information about Special Issues linked to the 2025 R&D Management Conference.
AI and Cooperation: Towards a new era in inter-organizational relationships
The special issue focuses on the transformative impact of artificial intelligence (AI) on inter-organizational collaboration. It explores how AI influences various aspects of these relationships, including its integration benefits/challenges partner selection, governance et management, and possible outcomes.
Guest editors: Anne-Sophie FERNANDEZ, Audrey ROUYRE, Olga BRUYAKA, Shanthi GOPALAKRISHNAN
Review of Evolutionary Political Economy
Complexity in Innovation, Management and Economics — The challenges of sustainability transition and digital transformation
In an era marked by unprecedented challenges – from sustainability transition to digital transformation – the need for innovative and effective solutions has never been more urgent.
Journal of Innovation & Knowledge
Sustainable Innovation Ecosystems as Complex Systems: challenges, advantages, and limits for research and practice
In this Special Issue, we consider sustainable innovation ecosystems as complex adaptive systems, in which many autonomous and heterogeneous actors leverage their resources and capabilities and create new ones, by interacting with each other at multiple levels, to allow innovative solutions to new problems to emerge, in a very short time.
Guest editors: Linda Ponta, Giovanna Ferraro, Raffaella Manzini, Andrew W. H. Ip, Cristina Ponsiglione, Andreas Pyka, Ben Vermeulen
Biodiversity conservation and restoration as a new research frontier for business scholars
Biodiversity—the variety of life on Earth—is essential to our environmental, social, and economic well-being. It forms the foundation of all life and plays a vital role in cultural traditions across many societies.
Guest editors: Rajat Panwar, Francesco Testa, Judith L. Walls, Jan Bebbington, Janice Ser Huay Lee, Rama Mohana Turaga
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: Elisa Salvador, Giovanna Segre
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 editors: Ciro Troise, Gabriella Esposito, Stefano Bresciani
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 editors: Jacopo Cricchio, Alberto Di Minin, Giulio Ferrigno, Paavo Ritala, Philip Shapira, Judith L. Walls