The rapid advance of digital technologies and their increasingly cross-cutting applications have driven global transformations that are affecting the entire economy and all of society. The coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic marked a turning point in terms of how widely digital solutions are...

In this paper the critical nature of science, technology and innovations were established. The fundamental and unique roles for sustainable industrial and economic development were also discussed. The complex and multifaceted innovation systems and their interactive network (i.e. actors and...