This book constitutes a selection of the best papers from the 15th International Conference on Business Excellence, Digital Economy and New Value Creation, ICBE 2021, held in Bucharest, Romania, in March 2021. This book is a collection of research findings and perspectives related to the digital...

This book focuses on the issues and challenges posed by COVID-19, proposing ways to deal with the supposed ‘new normal’ which the pandemic has introduced in the functioning of business, society, and environment. Among the issues discussed are employee well-being and mental health, impact of...

Spatial Analysis of Cultural Resources and their Contribution to the Sustainable Tourism Development of Greece -- Exploring Stakeholders' Perspectives on Hotel Design -- Tourists’ Willingness to pay for Environmental and Sociocultural Sustainability in Destinations: Underlying Factors and the...

Chapter 1: Introduction Civilization and Lived Experience -- Part 1: The Quests that Created a New Western Civilization (and Destroyed Others): Crops, Climate, Calories -- Chapter 2: The 3-Cs: Crops, Climate, Calories -- Chapter 3: Crops and the Shaping of Civilizations -- Chapter 4: Climate:...

Chapter 1. Global Health Care Platforms as Social Innovations -- Chapter 2. Senior Entrepreneurs Are Driving More and More Sustainable Social Innovation Worldwide than Any Other Demographic -- Chapter 3. Largest Social Movement in Human History -- Chapter 4. Social innovation in a field of...

1. Introduction -- 2. Literature review on climate change and innovation economics -- 3. Agricultural and Biotechnology Patents as an Adaptation to Climate Change -- 4. Climate-induced Innovation and Adoption in Small-Farm Agriculture -- 5. Innovations Related to Climate Change Mitigation...

Innovation, Catch-up and Sustainable Development -- PART I INNOVATION -- The Influence of Science and ‘Industrial Enlightenment’ on Steelmaking, 1786-1856 -- Science and Technology Relatedness: The Case of DNA Nanoscience & DNA Nanotechnology -- Observable Factors of Innovation Strategy:...

This book discusses the latest theoretical advances in regional innovation research, presents empirical cases involving the development of regional innovation systems (RISs), and explores regional innovation policy approaches. Grounded in the extensive literature on RISs, it addresses...

1. Introduction to Automotive Disruption and the Urban Mobility Revolution -- 2. Characterization of the Automotive Industry -- 3. Elements of the Automotive Disruption -- 4. Urban Mobility Revolution: A Quantitative Analysis -- 5. Business Model 2030: A Metamorphosis of the Automotive Landscape...

Chapter 1. Trends of Emerging Technologies in the Fashion Product Design and Development Process (Young-A Lee) -- Chapter 2. Material Innovation with Technologies (Huantian Cao) -- Chapter 3. Wearable Technology in Fashion (Sumin Koo and Youngjin Chae) -- Chapter 4. 3D Printing and Additive...