Digital Innovation and Entrepreneurship

Introduction

Today's new technology revolves around digitalization, encompassing phenomena like artificial intelligence (AI), the Internet of Things (IOT), big data, blockchain, and digital transformation. The advent of these technologies is profoundly restructuring innovation ecosystems, changing traditional governance and management models, and the process of competitiveness and economic growth (Beliaeva et al., 2019; Tomizawa et al., 2020).

In addition, the rapid diffusion of digital technology is reshaping fundamentally the economy and is challenging existing assumptions about entrepreneurship. A vast body of research acknowledges that the digitalization of businesses and the explosion of data collection and analysis may foster the development of innovation (Lee et al., 2014; Corvello et al. 2023) leading to new ways of pursuing entrepreneurship (von Briel et al., 2018). 

According to recent contributions, digital technologies play a pervasive role in the entrepreneurial process and outcome (Nambisan, 2017) as they enable the creation of new entrepreneurial outcomes such as digital artifacts or digital platforms that are different from other entrepreneurial outcomes in terms of speed of production and diffusion (Parker et al., 2016; Autio et al., 2018).

Current research on innovation indicates that Digital entrepreneurship has led not only to the advent of new types of innovation but also to major shifts in the design and the diffusion of innovation (Sorescu and Schreier, 2021).

A new stream of research is emerging, named, “Digital Entrepreneurship” dedicated to exploiting and exploring the entrepreneurial processes transformed by digitalisation (Nambisan, 2017).

Recently, the rise of digital technology-based entrepreneurial firms has prompted extensive research to understand the nature and consequences of digital entrepreneurship and innovation. As technology continues to transform industries, economies, and societies at an unprecedented pace, understanding and harnessing the power of these interconnected domains becomes increasingly vital.

However, there is a lack of comprehensive research on how to view digital entrepreneurship and innovation and how to fully explore the profound relationship between technology, entrepreneurship, and innovation.

This special issue delves into the dynamic intersection of innovation, entrepreneurship, and the digital economy and aims to discuss and analyze opportunities and challenges presented by new technology. 

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Submitted articles must not have been previously published, nor should they be under consideration for publication anywhere else, while under review for this journal.

Key deadlines

Opening date for submissions: 31st January 2024

Closing date for submissions: 31st April 2024

Guest Editors

Valentina Ndou
Department of management Engineering, University of Salento, Italy
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Eglantina Hysa
Associate Professor, Department of Economics, Epoka University, Albania
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Vera Ndrecaj
Senior Lecturer and Project Manager at Cardiff Metropolitan University, UK
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Mirela Panait
Professor, Petroleum & Gas University of Ploiesti, Romania
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