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COVID-19 has brought unprecedented impacts on global logistics and left supply chain management on the verge of collapse, which highlights the research importance of supply chain resilience (SCRE). To provide more insights into SCRE in the pandemic context, this paper uses information processing theory (IPT) as a theoretical lens and attempt to explore how SCRE can be achieved through information processing ‘fit’, that is, the fit between information processing capability and its information processing capability. We conducted a single-case analysis by choosing Zong-Teng Group, one of the biggest cross-border e-commerce enterprises in China, as our sample. Data were mainly collected from interviews with Zong-Teng’s managers and open online resources. Through this single-case analysis, this paper identifies supply chain collaborative innovation as a new mechanism between information processing ‘fit’ and SCRE. Specifically, a firm’s information processing ‘fit’ can lead to three modes of innovative collaborations (i.e., technology, management and market innovation), which further improves SCRE. These findings provide some valuable implications for both researchers and practitioners in operations and supply chain management (OSCM) realms. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Purpose: This study highlights areas of key importance for building event resilience and provides best-practice industry examples that foster innovative, adaptable and transformative event environments, which are areas of high academic and managerial relevance in times of uncertainty. Design/methodology/approach: The study employs a multicase study research design that draws on interviews with the leaders of four event organizations in Denmark and Norway: (1) the Steinkjer Festival, (2) Run Alone Denmark, (3) FC Midtjylland and (4) the Bergen International Festival. Findings: The events demonstrated the critical necessity of understanding innovation and its contribution to resilience in the event sector, particularly in times of uncertainty, such as the COVID-19 pandemic. These organizations achieved success by continuously fostering innovative environments before COVID-19 by being value-driven and customer-centric organizations. Digital technologies were not used as makeshift solutions but rather to enhance event attendees' experiential platforms and expand each event's business potential. Practical implications: The paper answers the call for event and festival research during the COVID-19 pandemic to explore the importance of understanding failure, crisis, innovation and recovery. Originality/value: The paper's contributions to event management research are (1) adding to the ongoing discussion about building a resilient event sector in times of uncertainty, (2) screening how event organizers achieve innovation in their organizations and (3) providing insights on future requirements for events in a post-COVID world. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The Entrepreneurial State was a concept that was put forth by Mariana Mazzucato in 2013. Since then, the concept has not received as much attention as it should, as the traditional view regarding entrepreneurship still holds sway among many academicians. This paper revisits this concept with an overview of Mazzucato's main thesis, followed by a critique. Some lessons regarding the concept from the Malaysian perspective are shared. Mazzucato's thesis regarding government intervention in the entrepreneurship process deserves greater attention, especially in light of the developments surrounding Covid-19. Further research areas are highlighted in the concluding remarks of this paper. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In government organizations, some would say that it is impossible to find them applying innovation at their organization. However, this case study on Dubai Police illustrates that this statement is incorrect. Within this paper, it will review and verify Dubai's Police ways of using innovation and its importance, the patterns and sources that inspires them and how they develop their innovative processes. This paper also shares some of Dubai's Police innovative projects, such as their unique way on distributing knowledge, technologies, robots, strategies in crises (COVID-19 pandemic), then a demonstration of how they measure their projects success. Afterword's we will discuss how Dubai Police organize their innovation and how they formed a collaboration with other organizations and teams. The examples were gathered through real case records, interviews, and personal experience. While viewing their ways of innovation, an online survey was made to see UAE citizens feedback regarding their thoughts towards Dubai's Police innovative activities. The survey results indicated that the citizens agree with Dubai Police initiatives. However, due for the limitation within the survey website, out of 53 responses, only 40 responses were available to be used in this study. This paper purpose is to show an insight of how a government sectors could apply innovation and how Dubai Police were able to achieve it. This paper is valuable for those who are looking for examples of innovation applied in government sectors. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The COVID-19 pandemic was an unparalleled crisis that has affected businesses, individuals, institutions, and governments in multiple ways. This paper comes to critically analyze the impact of the pandemic on entrepreneurship and innovation. Studies show that crises can also be perceived as opportunities for continuing creating new solutions and adopting innovative ways of doing business. In this sense, the present paper analyzes the current state of the art in terms of the pandemic impact on small and medium enterprises and the innovation status and proposes a systematic literature review and comparative analysis to depict the situation in Romania. For the purposes of this research, the data from the Global Innovation Index Reports is being used. The results show significant positive and negative changes in three main categories, namely business sophistication, infrastructure, knowledge & technology output. The paper contributes to the existing body of knowledge by summarizing the main findings from multiple publications and proposes recommendations for policymakers and institutions to provide the corresponding framework so that entrepreneurs could benefit from innovation. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

As digitalization in Europe is becoming more and more a priority, research has identified that there is a constantly existing gap between the European Union and the United States when it comes to the digitalization of enterprises. The situation is particularly obvious when it comes to the digitalization of small and medium enterprises. Published reports have noted that lack of access to financing is not seen as a debilitating factor, while developing economies in Europe, which the paper focuses on, do not report lack of infrastructure. As such, the paper produces, through a combined qualitative and quantitative pilot study, additional potential reasons for the lack of digitalization of SMEs in Europe which should be researched in the future: reactive mindset of waiting for growth in order to justify digitalization investments, lack of options for SMEs that do not necessarily desire to grow to large enterprises, and the lack of understanding of innovation and digitalization benefits for enterprises that do not have a culture for innovation. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The COVID-19 virus pandemic has influenced tourism policy makers to change their decisions and management methods due to the new challenging situation. The inability to establish normal tourism business, due to difficult mobility of tourists and unfavorable epidemiological situation, has led to finding various innovative solutions that could help improve results in tourism. In addition to improve the current situation, the innovations introduced during the pandemic were aimed at bringing certain changes in the coming period, when the tourism industry is not burdened by the pandemic, which will accelerate the growth of the tourism economy. The main goal of this paper is to point out certain models of implementation of innovative solutions, which could affect the more dynamic development of tourism in Montenegro. The subject of research in this paper are innovations in tourism and their application with special reference to Montenegro. Montenegro has not yet fully recognized the importance of introducing innovations in tourism, so the next period should be dedicated to their implementation. The tourist offer of Montenegro should be enriched by the introduction of new specific forms of tourism, in order to adequately meet the demands of the main emitting markets. In addition to the innovative tourist offer, solutions should be sought in the integration of digital and virtual technologies into marketing functions, because the modern tourist business is increasingly relying on these technologies. Research has shown that it is necessary to work on creating new strategies and plans that will more studiously deal with this issue. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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The psychological, behavioral, and technological impacts of adopting online modalities in the Universities within the post-COVID-19 and 4IR era were assessed in this paper. The current researcher obtained informed consent from the 125 academic staff members from five universities in four provinces--the University of Pretoria, University of Johannesburg, Durban University of Technology, University of Western Cape, and North-West University--through a cross-sectional survey methodology. This study's researcher promoted voluntary participation and ensured ethical standards were respected. In total, 116 surveys were located and completed. Statistical Packages for Social Sciences (SPSS) version 29 was used to clean and analyze the data. This study illustrates how willingness to use online modalities inside universities during the post-COVID-19 and Fourth Industrial Revolution (4IR) is highly influenced by a readiness to change, innovative work behavior, and technological competence. This study demonstrated that adopting online modalities in South African universities during the post-COVID-19 and 4IR periods was significantly influenced by technological proficiency, innovative behavior, and willingness to change. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Purpose: The goal of this paper is to narrate about tourism in Sri Lanka in the context of the current pandemic and other challenges and identify innovative solutions to rebuild tourism. Design/methodology/approach: This qualitative study was undertaken by employing mainly secondary data sources. Findings: Since the 26-year long civil war in Sri Lanka ended in 2009, tourism grew to unprecedented levels over the next ten years. Sri Lanka had formulated strategies to attract six million tourists and US$ 10 billion earnings by 2025. Tourism had been the third highest foreign exchange earner of the country representing over 5% of GDP, around 500,000 employees. The 2019 Easter Sunday terrorist attacks that killed 269 people severely affected tourism. Within a year of the attacks, the global COVID-19 pandemic further impacted tourism further. The current war in Europe added to the problems of Sri Lanka, which in 2022 plunged to its worse economic and political crisis. The protesters against the political corruption and fiscal mismanagement demanded the resignation of the President, Prime Minister and the Cabinet. In spite of these major challenges, this paper attempts to bring some optimism about the future potential of tourism in Sri Lanka. Originality/value: This paper suggests 12 key measures and 9 suggestions for innovation to rebuild tourism in Sri Lanka from 2022 to 2030. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to provide answers to the following questions: How was the tourism and hospitality industry in Guyana impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic? What recovery strategies have been designed? What are the prospects for the successful implementation of those strategies? Design/methodology/approach: The paper is based upon a qualitative analysis of the recommendations and formal proposals that were issued from a variety of sources within government, private sector and academia during the 2019–2021 period of the pandemic. Findings: The main findings of this paper are that an industry consensus exists regarding the severity of the impact of the pandemic and the need for a collaborative strategy to be designed and innovative measures implemented in order to accelerate industry recovery. This recovery entails attracting to Destination Guyana both a new wave of health-aware travellers as well as visitors from traditional markets and the diaspora. Analysis suggests that there is a broad consensus and convergence of objectives that embrace both government and private sector. Originality/value: The COVID-19 pandemic has given rise to a significant quantity of literature and has seen a conspicuous incorporation of scientific medical data into tourism analysis. This is only to be expected in the circumstance of a global health emergency that has devastated the global tourism industry. The value of this article lies principally in its proposal of innovative methods and strategies that are critical to tourism recovery. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

COVID-19, which hit all countries in the world at the end of 2019, has disrupted various aspects of life, social, economic, and work model in organizations such as government organizations, private organizations, and businesses. In terms of a supply chain, the various activities are production, processing, distribution, and consumption. Many efforts have done to overcome this situation, not only to combat the pandemic its selves but also to the resulting impact in the short-term, middle-term, and long-term, national-wide or locally. In the course of time, there are still a lot of risks that must be well managed and mitigated properly. On the other hand, there are also opportunities to open innovation based on the lesson learned from the COVID-19 pandemic. This paper describes the role of risk management and standardization in supporting innovation in the new normal based on lessons learned during the COVID-19 pandemic. Key factors affecting risk management and standardization on the innovation are identified and analyzed. Some recommendations for improvement based on risk management and standardization are also summarized. The method used in this review is descriptive-analytic based on literature studies from several scientific journals, and publications released by international organizations, associations, and government policies. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Purpose: The need for accelerating innovation is exacerbated as organizations struggle to either adapt or perish in this unforgiving condition due to the COVID-19 disruption. To address this issue, many organizations have embraced employee-driven participatory innovation to survive and thrive albeit the uncertainties. This study aims to investigate the role of enterprise social media (ESM) in supporting and facilitating these efforts. Design/methodology/approach: This study first identified the underlying mechanisms that allow ESM use to foster and maintain participatory innovation and then reexamined how these mechanisms played out during the COVID-19 lockdown restrictions. The data was collected through a questionnaire in two phases, before and during work-from-home mandates, and the results were analyzed and compared to capture similarities and differences. Findings: The results revealed that innovation culture and management support mediated the effects of ESM use on three measures of innovation productivity in both conditions. Interestingly, the effect of ESM use was more prominent in driving innovation in the work-from-home condition. This effect was not limited to the direct effect of ESM use on innovation productivity but on innovation culture and management support as well. Originality/value: The results suggest that ESM offer a potentially useful path to support and enable employees to participate in the innovation processes, especially when they work remotely or in a distributed team. More generally, this paper should be of interest to researchers and practitioners interested in understanding, implementing and evaluating enterprise social software applications and encouraging employee-driven participatory innovation. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to use a theoretical framework to investigate the relationships between different innovation-oriented dynamic capabilities, dynamic resilience and firm performance among logistics service providers (LSPs) and in-house logistics departments of industrial companies during the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic. Design/methodology/approach: The conceptual theoretical framework relies on the dynamic capabilities framework (DCF) and the relational view (RV), which are rooted in the resource-based view (RBV). It is hypothesized that the dynamic capability to innovate reinforces the dynamic capability to adapt and to recover in highly dynamic and vulnerable environments during the pandemic. This allows LSPs to successfully create new services and respond to the changing market circumstances in terms of logistics service quality (LSQ) and firm performance. Data were collected from 83 LSPs and 30 in-house logistics departments via an online survey. The study determined the general strength and direction of the relationships between latent variables. A correlation analysis was utilized to establish statistical significance of the results. Findings: In this study, a range of innovation-oriented capabilities for achieving more dynamic resilience were bundled in a conceptual framework and were found to be statistically significant for LSQ and firm performance. They are the capability to distribute new knowledge, to train employees effectively, to develop cross-functional collaboration within the firm, to develop inter-firm relationships with business partners on a long-term basis as well as to learn from rivals, and to pursue a win-win relationship with them. Research limitations/implications: The results of the study do not imply that the identified capabilities are the only ones relevant to increasing dynamic resilience during the pandemic. In October 2020, the COVID-19 pandemic was at different stages in different countries, so that the level to which firms were affected varied, and although the data were collected during one month only, due to the high dynamics of the pandemic, data were collected during different stages of disruptions, even among respondents in the same country. This study was set in the context of COVID-19, and it could not be proved whether the conceptual framework is generalizable to other crises or particular industries, but it would be worthwhile to examine this in the future. Finally, it was not tested whether LSQ mediates the relationship between innovative capabilities and firm performance during the pandemic. Practical implications: The results help managers with regard to their strategic and operational decisions in relation with COVID-19. These findings are useful for executives and logistics managers to improve these capabilities to gain a competitive advantage during pandemic and to find their strengths and weaknesses to develop critical capabilities for situations with a high turbulence and dynamic in their environment, and therefore provide a path for improvement. Originality/value: This paper operationalizes a multi-theoretical conceptual framework in the context of logistics management (LM) and supply chain management (SCM). This conceptual framework was empirically tested. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Purpose: The COVID-19 crisis has created enormous strain in global supply chains. The disruption has caused severe shortages of critical items, including personal protective equipment (e.g. face masks), ventilators and diagnostics. The failure of the industry to meet the sudden demand for these necessary items has caused a severe humanitarian crisis. These situations, resulting from the COVID-19, crisis have led to the informal growth of frugal innovation in sustainable global supply chains. This paper aims to provide a detailed overview of drivers of frugal-oriented sustainable global supply chains, following lessons acquired from emerging countries' attempts to deal with the COVID-19 pandemic. Design/methodology/approach: The authors used a focused group approach to identify the drivers and this paper further validated them using existing literature published in international peer-reviewed journals and reports. The authors adopted total interpretive structural modeling (TISM) to analyze the complex relationships among identified drivers. Findings: The authors present a theoretical framework to explain how the drivers are interlinked. This paper has developed the framework through a synthesis of the TISM modeling and Matrice d'impacts croisés multiplication appliquée á un classment analysis. This paper observed that government financial support, policies and regulations, under the mediating effect of leadership and the moderating effect of national culture and international rules and regulations, has a significant effect on the adoption of emerging technology, volunteering initiatives and values and ethics. Further, emerging technology, volunteering initiative and values and ethics have a significant effect on supply chain talent and frugal engineering. These results provide some useful theoretical insights that may help in further investigating the role of frugal innovations in other contexts. Originality/value: The authors find that outcomes of the methodical contributions and the resulting managerial insights can be categorized into four levels. Industry and researchers alike can use the study to develop the decision-support systems guiding frugal-oriented sustainable global supply chains amid the COVID-19 pandemic and in recovering them thereafter. Suggestions for future research directions are offered and discussed. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The purpose of this paper is to present the factors driving and accelerating the adoption of innovation by highlighting China's experience in tackling the spread of the Coronavirus COVID-19. A literature review of types, degrees and drivers for innovations was conducted. We adopt descriptive research by using a specific method for the review, the authors selected a set of papers from various scientific databases as a study sample, which covers the knowledge domain object of this study. The findings show that there are several factors driving and accelerating innovation according to the sector and field of activity. The result shows that there are other factors specific to the country of China that promote innovation, which called "3+6+7" reform agenda [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

As the COVID-19 pandemic has radically changed the business landscape in the last years, some organizations were able to adapt to the new environment and continue to function, some thrived, seeing unmatched growth, while others disappeared forever. Even before the COVID-19 pandemic, adaptability had already been deemed to be an important organizational capability, which ensured an organization stayed relevant in the market. With the pandemic, the ability to adapt has become essential to the organizations' survival. Additionally, a large body of research was dedicated to the importance of innovation, which has been shown to have a positive impact on organizations' competitiveness, growth and overall results. While adaptability is a response to the changes in the external environment of an organization, innovation consists in the change being generated inside the organization. Thus, an organization reacts to change by being adaptable and generates change by being innovative. Given that both capabilities are of importance to an organization's success, this paper performs a literature review of the factors influencing the organizations' adaptability and innovativeness, specifically the cultural factors, based on the well-established Hofstede Cultural Model. The results show that both adaptability and innovativeness are influenced by the cultural dimensions in different ways. However, not all cultural dimensions can be influenced to the same extent, some being more malleable than others. This means that organizations must aim to influence the most malleable cultural dimensions in order to increase their adaptability and innovativeness, to improve their overall performance. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In the opening decades of the twenty‐first century certain cities around the world emerged as hubs of entrepreneurial innovation. This paper explores this urban economic change phenomenon through in‐depth and comparative qualitative analysis. It focuses on the recent contemporary history of New York, Los Angeles, London, Berlin, Tokyo and Shanghai prior to the global COVID pandemic. Based on an analysis of the drivers, mechanisms and processes of change, it is found that these cities acted as places of possibility for many individuals who previously may have been unlikely to engage in entrepreneurship. The cities were found to have established new development paths through entrepreneurial innovation stemming from co‐creation network dynamics, with key human agents playing pivotal roles. Common elements include the rise of venture capital, the growth of entrepreneurial cultures, and institutional policy changes. Notably, entrepreneurial innovation was found to be closely tied to changes in large corporates. This innovation evolved through the proliferation of new infrastructure such as co‐working spaces and innovation incubators, with each city being utilised as a test‐bed for new ideas. Finally, the emergence of a darker side to entrepreneurial innovation is found in terms of growing urban inequality. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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Based on interviews with a global sample of ITE leaders, this paper explores whether the changes forced on institutions and individuals as a result of the COVID-19 global pandemic can be classed as innovation. The paper goes beyond collating the various practical and organisational changes the ITE leaders made and instead focuses on the kind of changes enacted around the world and whether and how these changes can be seen as adding new value to historical ITE practices. Given the consistency of responses evident across the sample of teacher education leaders around the world, the paper concludes with a discussion of potentially global implications of the shifts in ITE practices reported and suggests that COVID-19 has indeed stimulated an innovative stance often perceived to be lacking in the sector. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

To restore the economy of post-pandemic Georgia, it is essential to solve problems in creative and innovative ways, and build an economy based on knowledge and innovation. The paper analyzes the impact of the global pandemic and other negative factors on the development of the startup ecosystem in Georgia, the main challenges, and the measures taken. The work is based on the review of statistical data, the anti-crisis policy of the state, and the assessment of the main directions of the government program 2021-2024 "For the construction of the European state". Opinions got expressed about the mobilization of existing opportunities for the development of the startup ecosystem in Georgia in the post-pandemic period and the introduction of innovative technologies and products in the new reality. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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The National Statistical Institutes (NSIs) of the European Statistical System (ESS) have constantly strived to innovate products, processes and methods. Recent developments in the past decade have shown how rapidly data ecosystems are evolving across our globalised and digitalised societies. The outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020 represented a turning point for innovation in the ESS. The speed of change spiked: those NSIs that had established a solid ground for innovation managed to continue providing high quality statistics to society and policymakers, while exploiting the potential for innovation given by the availability of new data sources. Despite the pandemic slowly losing its grip, Europe has found itself in the middle of a new crisis with the Russian invasion of Ukraine. Therefore, NSIs now face the challenge of keeping up the innovative work and rolling out these innovations into production. This paper provides an overview of the work on innovation done at the ESS level in recent years and its contribution to the resilience of the statistical system to respond to recent crises. Furthermore, taking stock of recent experiences, it presents some of the main challenges and enablers which are needed to sustain ESS innovation in the years to come. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In an increasingly digitized world and after the disruption of the covid-19 pandemic, the internet and social networks are becoming the central backbone of interactions between individuals, organizations, and governments worldwide in general and defending the democratic values in Ukraine in particular. The influence capacity of social networks on creativity and innovation has grown in recent years and has been an objective of the study. This paper analyses the interaction between innovation and social networks from a balanced assessment, considering opportunities and risks. The interaction between social networks and innovation could redesign the value creation process. The proliferation of social media platforms coincides with the expansion of the open innovation paradigm and has demonstrated its efficiency in facilitating solutions in different fields such as science, statistics, engineering, production and the generation of social policies. On the other hand, risks have to be analyzed and mitigated. The social networks and search engines could have become a proxy for organizing and accessing information and knowledge on a large scale; however, evidence points out how the fake data and concentration could suffocate innovation. The research develops a theoretical framework to analyze how the organizational structure of social networks could influence the knowledge absorption capability and innovation; what is the influence of the social networks on creativity and innovation; and their role as drivers to create the social value. The results of the research could be practically valuable for many stakeholders: Chief Innovation Officers and Communication Managers, Teams responsible for Stakeholders Engagement and Open Innovation programmes, Policy Makers, and the Scientific Community interested in developing empirical research on the topic, as well as citizens to understand their role as change-makers contributing to developing Innovation and Creativity. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Furniture enterprises can produce products in a new way to provide a better service to the customer. That means customers buy furniture and receive other aspects of the purchase, such as product attributes and related add-ons. In fact, the ultimate goal of the firms is to achieve customer satisfaction, and one way of obtaining this is to make a strong relationship with the customers. Therefore, the right strategy for any firm would be promoting the perceived value of customers via increasing the customer's ability to buy their desired products. To do this, managers must coordinate different types of innovations to combine new ideas, processes, and changes to deliver innovative products. This can then gradually bring about sustainable revenue streams for the firms. This paper aims to explore the relationship between innovation types by object, customer perceived value, and customer satisfaction. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Museums are reinventing themselves in response to the COVID-19 emergency. The pandemic has increased inequalities and widened disparities in accessing heritage and in participation to cultural life. On the basis of the results of ICOM's 2020 global surveys, this paper shows how museums benefited of the opportunities of digital innovation during the lockdown. The pandemic is accelerating the digital change and interactive technologies are enabling museums to interact with communities more efficiently and attract new public. The paper addresses the impact on museums of the crisis of global mobility and mass tourism and point out to the need of new business models and exhibition policies. It calls for public support to museums' cultural, technological and managerial innovation and it shows that the challenges of the digital world require new interdisciplinary competencies and more professional interaction. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Since 2020, the global economy has been dominated by the global outbreak of the SARS-CoV-2 virus causing the disease COVID-19. The outbreak of the pandemic was an external threat to companies, which had an impact on their innovation strategy On the other hand, for some companies, the pandemic is an opportunity for development. The global crisis, dynamic socio-technological changes, combined with globalization, cause a dizzying pace of change, there is no permission for failure in enterprises – you have to act and to do so effectively. One of the possible ways is to adapt/implement an innovation strategy The basic hypothesis in this paper is the claim that during the pandemic, the surveyed companies did not significantly limit their innovative activities and used an offensive strategy. The aim of the article is to identify the innovation strategies used in enterprises before and during the pandemic. In order to achieve the assumed goal, the article uses deductive inference, critical analysis of the subject-related literature and the in-depth interview (IDI). The research results presented in the article enrich the knowledge about innovative activities of enterprises during the pandemic. Innovation strategies used by enterprises before the pandemic (in 2016-2019) and during its duration (2020-2022) were identified. To summarise the research carried out, it can be stated that before the pandemic, respondents most often pointed to the offensive strategy, independent and market creation, during the pandemic to the offensive strategy, recruitment and independent. Enterprises that were innovative before the pandemic and applied innovation strategies did not stop doing so during the pandemic. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The COVID-19 pandemic is a gateway for businesses to develop technology and embrace digitalization to remain competitive. Various results stated the important role of innovation and technology transformation as potent weapons for survival in this evolving landscape. This research analyzes the role of technology and innovation, especially in developing countries, with few articles researching this field. A systematic literature review that examined 84 articles from reputable international journals was used, with a particular emphasis on developing countries. This research aimed to conduct a comprehensive analysis of existing literature by using the keywords "technology", "innovation", and "digital economy" to identify gaps and generate fresh insights. The articles were collected from ProQuest, Google Scholar, and Scopus search engines and imported into Mendeley software for analysis using VOSviewer. The visualization results showed that SMEs were the most frequently mentioned keyword with 41 occurrences. This research contributed by providing opportunities in the form of new paths and variables rarely used for further analysis. There were also implications for organizational management, both in profit and non-profit organizations, to enhance technological capabilities, thereby improving business efficiency and sustainability. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The health sector is very specific and difficult market for firms to access and deal with. The main reasons for this is that the healthcare systems are in continuous change, the co-creation processes in hospitals are complicated involving many different actors which also affects on firms commercialization and internationalization approaches. However, there is a growing demand of health services and the sector is growing also due to the COVID situation, that has been dramatically speeding up the digitalization of the healthcare services in the hospital settings. Approaching international hospital markets is, however, challenging for the start-up companies. On their journey they are facing a resistance, that they have to overcome in many different ways. The aim of this paper is to increase understanding how a start-up can overcome hospital resistance in an international innovation co-creation process. The results of are based on in depth case study in which the data collection was done over the four years of data gathering. The paper highlights how start-up companies can overcome the resistance in the international innovation co-creation in the hospital markets. It shows the importance of different activities, actors, capabilities and international activities in different phases of the international innovation co-creation journey. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

We investigate how pre-crisis obstacles of enterprises determine the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic in selected European countries. Moreover, we examine the effects of the coping strategies, in particular of innovation, and digitalization, to respond to the pandemic challenge. Thus, we try to contribute to a more granular understanding of the dynamics that play a pivotal role in managing a crisis. The analysis uses survey data of six European countries from the Enterprise Surveys carried out in 2018 and 2019 and their follow-up survey during the COVID-19 crisis in 2020. Overall, the results indicate that companies that had already previously (before the crisis) reported perceived difficulties with access to financial resources have been more severely constrained during the pandemic. Moreover, companies that adopt innovative approaches during the pandemic perform better. Finally, digitalization strategies are not significantly related to entrepreneurial success. Our analysis reveals the importance of strategic planning of companies and the provision of an environment conducive to innovation by policymakers. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The hotel industry was in a fight for survival during the COVID-19 pandemic. To emerge resilient from the pandemic's long-lasting impacts, the hotel industry needed to review, innovate and transform hotel operations. The prospects of recovery for hotels among other elements were underpinned by the integration of new technological advancements to aid the sustainability of the hotel business. This study was based on responses from 4 and 5-star hotel employees in Gauteng, South Africa to investigate the extent to which hotels had adopted and accepted new technological innovations to reduce the impact of the pandemic. The study is quantitative and the data was collected online, using Google Forms, attaining 103 useful questionnaires. The findings show a significant correlation between the pandemic inciting a change in hotel operations and the integration of technological innovation in hotels to ensure sustainability. This is seen through a statistically significant mean (M=4.06). Further affirming the significance of the use of technology in hotels to emerge resilient from a pandemic. Lessons from the recent pandemic and this study can form a critical foundation for hotels to adapt to external demands, integrating new technologies and sustainable strategies for survival. The findings also allude to employees' acceptance of new technological advancements and their willingness to use them. Challenges and recommendations for future research are also discussed. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article discusses empirical challenges and opportunities for African countries in their quest to have sustainable mechanisms for funding research and innovation. Like elsewhere in different parts of the world, African countries have been exploring different approaches, institutional reforms, models and mechanisms towards more efficient and effective funding and financing of research and innovation to enhance their individual and collective economic development aspirations. This paper derives from a 2018 to 2019 study which used a combination of primary and secondary data sources to inform current debates and reviews on the re- organization of research and innovation funding in Africa. Attempts to copy experiences of high income economies in harnessing and deploying funding mechanisms into national research and innovation systems are not appropriate if not accompanied by adaptation to systemic and contextual aspects in receiving countries and sectors. This paper presents and analyses recent empirical evidence from 15 African countries to argue that successful adaptations are not just a matter of technological and innovation capabilities, timely and adequate resourcing, but are a function of decision-making and governance capabilities, which in turn arise from deliberate and interactive learning across the entire research and innovation system. This work contributes to some of the themes covered in this journal recently on the broad issue of resources for innovation, including financial and relational resources. • Besides the current COVID-19 pandemic, African countries have many economic development challenges and opportunities to deal with. • New knowledge from research and innovation seen as key drivers in these, but these drivers need resources. • Different ways of funding research and innovation have been deployed, but some shortcomings remain, with respect to, inter alia, consistency of the funding, sufficiency of the funding and relevance of the funding. • This paper presents and analyses recent empirical evidence from 15 African SGCI countries to argue that successful adaptations are not just a matter of timely and adequate resourcing, or technological and innovation capabilities. • Decision-making and governance capabilities, which arise from deliberate and interactive learning across entire research and innovation systems, are also key. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The use of plants as biofactories for the production of medical products and vaccines has a long history, but the recent COVID-19 pandemic has caused this set of technologies, for their potential to contribute to the development of innovative solutions for tackling pandemic spread worldwide, to rise in prominence. The purpose of this paper is to analyze the global innovation scenario of plant-based vaccine production. Methods: Patent search using a specific set of technical classification codes and keywords was performed using the Questel-Orbit database, with a final output of 180 patent families, corresponding to 1397 single patents. Results: Plant-based vaccines production is an innovation sector with positive development especially in the last five-year period (30% growth). Fifty percent of the patents were registered in the United States, standing out as the most attractive patent system worldwide. The inventive activity was led by private firms owning the 49% of the patent families, and the key-players group includes the companies that successfully developed plant-based COVID-19 vaccine candidates, indicating a strong connection between the expertise in innovation production and the capacity to adapt inventions to the current pandemic vaccine demand. Virus-like particles technology has increased in importance over the past few years. Conclusion: Patent data confirm their relevant role as indicators of innovation and technological evolution. Plant-based vaccines are expected to acquire an increasing role over the next few years as the current pandemic acts as an innovation catalyst. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]