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11th ICRIDIT Berlin-Celaya 2022: 11th International Conference of RIDIT. Digital and Sustainable Transformations, and Innovation on a Post-COVID World.

Berlin BSP Business and Law School and University of Guanajuato, Celaya-Salvatierra campus

Celaya, Mexico, February 24-25, 2022

Conference website	http://icridit.riditmx.net
Submission link	https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=11thicriditberlincel
Submission deadline	January 6, 2022

Topics: business model innovation industry 4.0 smart city sustainable development

EXTENDED SUBMISSION DEADLINE: JANUARY 06th, 2022!

LAST CALL FOR PAPERS!, ~~DEADLINE FOR SUBMISSION: NOVEMBER 15TH, 2021~~.

11th ICRIDIT Berlin-Celaya 2022

“Digital and Sustainable Transformations, and Innovation on a Post-COVID World.”

February 24th-25th, 2022.

The Research and Teaching Network on Technological Innovation (RIDIT) and the International Entrepreneurship Lab Smart Money (IELSM) -Research and Teaching Networks-, in collaboration with the Berlin BSP Business School, the University of Guanajuato, and Metropolitan Autonomous University call and invite scholars to the biennial international e-Conference to be held on February 24th-25th, 2022, hosted simultaneously in Berlin, Germany, and Celaya, Mexico.

WHAT IS THE CONCEPT for the e-Conference?

One of the RIDIT permanent and highly relevant activities is the national and international Conferences held annually in itinerant venues, where space for dialogue and exchange is generated. The network topics are discussed in state-of-the-art, both for research and teaching.

The e-Conference is conceptualized as an instrument of scientific dissemination where different disciplinary perspectives on technological and social change converge to explain current Digital and Sustainable Transformation. From the researchers’ expectations, the e-Conference is a space of interaction to meet knowledge at state of the art and look for progress in the interest topics.

SCOPE OF THE CONFERENCE

The conference is dedicated to studying the global Covid-19 crisis consequences and new needs and practices in developing and disseminating digital and clean technologies. The conference covers social and economic matters in addition to the study of organizations and information technology, and natural resources management. Major disciplines include Economics, business, sociology, information technology, computer science, renewable energy, and sustainable development.

Submission Guidelines

All papers must be original and meet international criteria that guarantee academic quality. Your article must not be in the process of publication in another journal or conference.

The content of the papers is the sole responsibility of the authors.

The author or authors with an Accepted Paper must register, participate and present their paper during the event.

The following paper categories are welcome:

Theoretical papers: these are concept development, literature review with identification of gaps, or critical analysis. This paper presents the results of research in which several publications have been analyzed and systematized. Such research must include one of the requested follow-up topics to account for progress, criticisms, or trends. One of its main characteristics is that they present a detailed bibliography of at least 50 references.
Paper with methodological applications: in this article, new practices for studying a particular phenomenon are supported, explained, and shown. This type of research includes both theoretical and practical aspects.
Empirical research paper: this document shows the original results of research projects in detail and answers questions from a particular field or topic.
Please register and submit your proposal first (Declaration of interest). Here is the format for submissions (Submission Guidelines).
The paper should be written in Spanish or English formally and appropriately in scientific prose.
The paper must include, broken down into sections and subsections if necessary, the following: abstract, introduction, methodology, development, results, discussion and analysis, conclusions, and references.
The abstract should be 200 words long.
The maximum extension for the paper must be 4,000-5,000 words, including abstract, text, references, tables, figures, photos, illustrations, etc.
A camera-ready template will be provided for the papers (Template).
All submissions will undertake a double-blinded peer-reviewed process.

List of Topics

1) Digitization Progress and SDG.
- What is the role of digitalization in contributing towards the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals?
2) Developments on Digital and Sustainable Education and Learning.
- What changes have technologies imposed on institutions during Pandemics?
- How is the education sector managing technological, organizational, and cultural changes related to Digital and Sustainable Transformation?
- How may learning capabilities contribute to sustainable business development and digital entrepreneurship?
- What strategies should universities develop to promote sustainable university entrepreneurship through the use of digital platforms?
3) Digital and Sustainable Transformations in Agriculture, Manufacturing, and Services.
- Which are the determinants and deters for adopting precise agriculture?
- How does the digital economy support development of countries’ manufacturing industries?
- How is the circular economy driving business growth in bio-economy, industry, and services?
4) Digital and Sustainable Transformation on Health and Wellbeing.
- Considering the experience and knowledge in the factory system, which are the critical factors for the company and the sustainability of the levels of worker’s welfare?
- How to explore the digital transformation of health and care to sustain planetary health in various diseases?
- How do digital technologies allow monitoring the evolving prevalence of therapies and the improvement of health services optimization?
- How to develop alert systems based on integrating information technology tools for climate, weather, air pollution, and aerobiology in mobile Health applications?
5) Digital and Sustainable Agendas: Overview and Foresight.
- How should regions understand the digital economy?
- What are the significant issues government and business need to assess to keep pace with worldwide accelerating transformations post-pandemic trends?
- How does digital transformation affect the competitiveness, resilience, and viability of the overall innovation system?
- What are the new roles of government in promoting entrepreneurship by using digital platforms?
6) Digital & Sustainable Entrepreneurship and Business Models.
- Are digitalization and sustainability complementary or substitutive paths toward small business competitiveness?
- How can small businesses create value by leveraging digital platforms?
- How do incumbent firms organize and manage their digital transformation efforts?
- What are the role and processes should digital platforms develop to promote entrepreneurship and new business models?
- How do industrial firms seek to develop offerings that can reduce their negative ecological impact while still economically viable?
7) Cooperation in Sustainability and Digitization.
- How can businesses leverage digital transformation to support engagement with sustainability challenges?
- Will digital innovation create the conditions for an equally rapid and profound transformation of sustainable practices?
- What is the influence that external infrastructure and institutions have on digital entrepreneurship development?
8) Intellectual Property, Financing, and Taxation on Digital and Sustainable Transformation.
- How can the funding gaps facing sustainable infrastructure be bridged using sustainable finance?
- How to combine digital and innovation management investments to prepare and facilitate the use of new technologies in metropolitan city digital transformation planning?
- Which strategies could grant autonomy and sustainability to cultural organizations in engaging in digital transformation?
- Which intellectual property issues are critical to handling the development of digital technologies—such as Internet-of-Things, artificial intelligence, big data, geospatial technologies, smart sensors, wearables?
9) Smart, sustainable, and resilient cities and communities.
- Can AI applications succeed in achieving smart and sustainable cities, which are the barriers and the obstacles?
- Which are the key factors that contribute to the design of a sustainable and smart city?
- How do spatial and digital network effects interact to develop externalities, and how do these outcomes play a vital role in the formation, expansion, and sustainability of ecosystems?
- How to design and implement digital transformation strategies for the uptake of advanced digital services and the smart growth of city ecosystems?
- How to convert metropolitan areas into smart cities that can serve as ecosystems for innovation?
10) Challenges in Digital and Sustainable Infrastructures.
- What role does industrial policy play in the developmental process of data analytics and AI, the platform economy, digital trade, fintech innovation, and societal and economic sustainability?
- How do we define and optimize the manufacturing process in a virtual environment?
- How to assess digital transformation technologies adoption for sustainability purposes?
- How will governance innovation regulate the social embedding of the information commons and their relationship to the free market?

Important Dates

The timeline of this Conference is as follows:

Submission dates:

From Aug 10th to ~~Nov 15th.~~ January 6th, 2022.

Review process: On a rolling basis from Aug 25th to Jan 31st, 2022.

Possible Proceedings publication: May 2022.

Committees

General Organizing Committee

Dr. Salvador Estrada Rodríguez. (RIDIT-IELSM, University of Guanajuato)
Dr. Rafael Palacios-Bustamante (IELSM, Berlin BSP Business and Law School)
Dr. Graciela Carrillo González (RIDIT, Autonomous Metropolitan University)
Dr. Juan Reyes Álvarez (RIDIT, Meritorious Autonomous University of Puebla)

General Secretariat

Dr. Pilar Escott Mota (IELSM, Autonomous University of Querétaro)

Local Organizing Commitee

Dr. Alba María del Carmen González Vega (University of Guanajuato)
Dr. Sergio Méndez Valencia (University of Guanajuato)
Dr. Juan Morúa-Ramírez (University of Guanajuato)
Dr. Gloria Leticia López-Salazar (University of Guanajuato)
Dr. Roberto Rodríguez Venegas (University of Guanajuato)
Dr. Patricia Graf (Berlin BSP Business and Law School)
Dr. Jeanette Trenkmann (Berlin BSP Business and Law School)

Scientific Commitee

Dr. Adriana Martínez Martínez (ENES-León, UNAM, Editor-in-Chief, Entreciencias Journal)
Dr. Marco Opazo (Deusto University, Editor-in-Chief, International Journal of Business Environment)
Dr. Claudia de Fuentes (Saint Mary's University, Editor, Journal Innovation and Development)
Dr. Luis Arturo Rivas-Tovar (ESCA-Santo Tomás, IPN, Editor-in Chief, Investigación Administrativa Journal)
Dr. Jhoany Alejandro Valencia Arias (ITM, Editor-in-Chief, CEA Journal)
Dr. Raúl Pacheco-Vega (FLACSO, Assistant Editor, Policy Design and Practice)
Dr. Hugo Horta (The University of Hong Kong, Associate Editor, Journal of Higher Education)
Dr. Ana Urraca-Ruiz (Universidade Fluminense, Associate Editor, Revista Brasileira de Inovação)

Publication

After the peer-reviewing process, only the papers written in English will be published in the proceedings and submitted to the related indexes/databases.
As a result of the conference, a special issue will be published in the SHS Web of Conferences. This publication is indexed or listed by the following sources: CNKI, Conference Proceedings Citation Index (Web of Science) (Subject to acceptance - as for all proceedings journals), DOAJ, EBSCO (EBSCO Discovery Service), Google Scholar, Social Science Database (ProQuest), Social Science Premium Collection (ProQuest), Sociology Collection (ProQuest), Sociology Database (ProQuest), and Wanfang Data. Furthermore, the SHS Web of Conferences Journal is indexed in Crossref.
Before publication, SHS Web of Conferences will randomly review papers using the text comparison tool “iThenticate”, to prevent plagiarism malpractices.

International Distinction in Innovation Studies "Leonel Corona Treviño"

Leonel Corona Treviño, is a distinguished academic, pioneer of innovation studies in Mexico. His research and reflections have been based on a multidisciplinary perspective: economic theories, history of technology, management and foresight, sociology, geography and public policy. From Political Economy and structuralist and dependency theories, together with Dr. Theotonio Dos Santos, he founded in 1977 the first seminar in Mexico dedicated to the study of Science and Technology. With Amilcar Herrera, he developed relevant research on the opportunities and threats of technological trends for Mexico and Latin America. His work of more than four decades addresses technological capabilities and learning, innovation in specific companies and regions, science, technology and innovation policies, university-industry linkages, articulation and performance of national systems, among other relevant topics. He is currently the honorary president of RIDIT.

This distinction is awarded biennially since 2014. It was instituted at our National Congress in the city of Pachuca de Soto, Hidalgo in Mexico. In our 11th ICRIDIT, the "Leonel Corona Treviño" distinction will be awarded to papers based on doctoral theses, postulated by the authors and nominated by our reviewers.

Venue

The virtual conference will be hosted by the University of Guanajuato, campus Celaya-Salvatierra and it is organized jointly with the Berlin BSP Business and Law School. The whole event will be transmitted through institutional social media belonging to the University of Guanajuato and may be shared and diffused by the other conference partner organizations.

Virtual participants will receive presentation certificates and their papers will appear in the program, abstracts, and may be considered for the proceedings special issue journal. Participants will receive all-conference documents digitally.

Rates and fees

Attendance and participation in this Conference are free of charge, however, authors whose papers are favourably reviewed and meet the requirements to be included in the Journal of abstracts will be asked to pay a fee for basic online publication services:

Preparation of the online metadata (title, authors, affiliations, abstract, references),
Attribution of DOI Names and indexation to CrossRef®,
Online publication of the PDF articles and creation of HTML metadata,
All online articles are published in colours,
Indexation in main databases,
Access to journal’s services (recommend this article, download citation, metrics, citation tracking…) and links to social bookmarking websites,
Archiving and maintenance for an unlimited time.

This fee will also include the administrative services of international transfers and the issuance of invoices.

Contact

All questions about submissions should be emailed to congresoridit@gmail.com or icridit@ugto.mx

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