Pub Date : 2023-08-06DOI: 10.1177/09717218231175772
Runyu Pang
The Central Committee of the Communist Party of China (CPC) has proposed that Jiangsu should ‘explore the way for the development of the whole country’. Therefore, Jiangsu has naturally become a testing ground and demonstration site for accelerating the construction of an innovative country. This paper takes the construction of a decision-making advisory system in Jiangsu Province, China, as an example. By examining the current situation and problems of the construction of a decision-making advisory system for electricity and energy in Jiangsu Province, it examines the internal logic of optimising the management system and mechanism of decision-making institutions and the scientific and democratic decision-making of the government for the construction of an innovative country. This is of great theoretical and practical significance for understanding the development of decision-making advisory research in the country.
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Pub Date : 2023-06-30DOI: 10.1177/09717218231178229
Abdulaziz A. Abdulaziz, A. Algosaibi, A. S. Alquhaibi, Fatimah Nuri Alali, Mohammed Sami Almutawaa, M. Roomi, Yasser Bhatti
COVID-19 forced many nations, including the largest country in the Arabian Gulf region, Saudi Arabia, to fast-track the adoption of new technologies and work practices to cope with the pandemic. We find the Saudi Ministry of Health (SMoH), in less than a year, introduced several innovations to transform healthcare planning, management and delivery. We reflect on these changes in the Saudi Arabian context and suggest what needs to be done next to retain the developmental momentum generated in the innovation system beyond the pandemic for sustainable and positive impact on the healthcare system. To do so, the Ministry should regularly assess the appetite for change, prioritise problems and areas of intervention, collect evidence of need and impact, build confidence by educating the public and healthcare professionals about the importance of adapting to new ways and methods of healthcare delivery, collaborate with the private sector to efficiently sustain these advancements and gain the public’s trust through stakeholder participation.
{"title":"Digital Healthcare Innovation and Development in Saudi Arabia During and Beyond COVID-19","authors":"Abdulaziz A. Abdulaziz, A. Algosaibi, A. S. Alquhaibi, Fatimah Nuri Alali, Mohammed Sami Almutawaa, M. Roomi, Yasser Bhatti","doi":"10.1177/09717218231178229","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/09717218231178229","url":null,"abstract":"COVID-19 forced many nations, including the largest country in the Arabian Gulf region, Saudi Arabia, to fast-track the adoption of new technologies and work practices to cope with the pandemic. We find the Saudi Ministry of Health (SMoH), in less than a year, introduced several innovations to transform healthcare planning, management and delivery. We reflect on these changes in the Saudi Arabian context and suggest what needs to be done next to retain the developmental momentum generated in the innovation system beyond the pandemic for sustainable and positive impact on the healthcare system. To do so, the Ministry should regularly assess the appetite for change, prioritise problems and areas of intervention, collect evidence of need and impact, build confidence by educating the public and healthcare professionals about the importance of adapting to new ways and methods of healthcare delivery, collaborate with the private sector to efficiently sustain these advancements and gain the public’s trust through stakeholder participation.","PeriodicalId":45432,"journal":{"name":"Science Technology and Society","volume":"138 1","pages":"370 - 386"},"PeriodicalIF":2.1,"publicationDate":"2023-06-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"75306900","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-06-26DOI: 10.1177/09717218231178343
Dong Wu, Tanfei Liu, Wen Yang, Xinyuan Cui
This study conducts an empirical study on the relationship between knowledge coupling and organizational resilience based on the knowledge-based view. Meanwhile, market orientation is considered a moderating variable because of its role in this transmission mechanism. The hypotheses are tested through a survey of 359 Chinese manufacturing firms. The results show that both complementary knowledge coupling and substitutive knowledge coupling have significant positive impacts on organizational resilience, and the proactive market orientation positively moderates the relationship between complementary/substitutive knowledge coupling and organizational resilience, while the responsive market orientation negatively moderates the relationship between complementary knowledge coupling and organizational resilience. In the context of the current globalization of the COVID-19 epidemic, this study explores the critical factors needed to survive and develop by firms in adversity, which enriches the research on organizational resilience and market orientation theory and provides suggestions for firms’ strategic planning.
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Pub Date : 2023-06-18DOI: 10.1177/09717218231178241
Ogundiran Soumonni, M. Muchie
We begin our reflection in this paper with the cursory observation that most of the major variants of the SARS CoV-2 virus were deciphered in the Global South, namely, alpha (China), beta and omicron (South Africa). This underappreciated fact demonstrates that independent capabilities in frontier sciences in the South contributed fundamentally to global efforts to minimise the human cost of the pandemic. However, while the more efficient vaccines primarily emerged from research and development (R&D)-based capabilities in the Global North, some novel vaccines, secondary innovation in the form of manufacturing and the innovative deployment of preventive measures were also salient in the Global South. Thus, rather than starting with the ‘deficit model of development’ that is implicit in several policy discourses on the Global South, we argue that innovation concepts should instead be anchored in the rich civilisational heritage of such societies themselves. Theoretical notions such as secondary innovation, which emerged from Chinese efforts at economic catch-up, endogenous development, which seeks to ground Africa’s advancement in its own historical antecedents, and grassroots innovation from the Indian subcontinent, guide our South–South dialogical exchange in this article. Consequently, we propose a contextually rooted conceptual framework on endogenous innovation that could better inform socially transformative efforts and highlight some implications for medicinal innovation and astronomy beyond COVID-19.
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Pub Date : 2023-06-11DOI: 10.1177/09717218231178199
F. Sheikh, Xiaobo Wu
The COVID-19 pandemic has cast new light on worldwide socioeconomic susceptibility to exogenous shocks. This crisis has been framed unlike any other in modern memory (Schwab & Malleret, 2020). The virus was initially thought to be a mild outbreak in Wuhan, China, in December 2019 but soon spread to 216 countries (Ke & Hsiao, 2021). The World Health Organisation’s (WHO) Covid dashboard indicated 540,923,532 confirmed cases of COVID-19 as of June 27, 2022, resulting in 6,325,785 deaths globally. WHO declared the virus a global health emergency as it quickly moved beyond China. The United Nations Secretary—General Antonio Guterres stated that the pandemic is responsible for the largest economic catastrophe and highest unemployment since the Great Depression; COVID-19 has also endangered human rights (Ke & Hsiao, 2021). Yet, these circumstances are not exactly unprecedented. Jordà et al. (2020) investigated pandemics dating back to the 14th century and identified considerable negative macroeconomic repercussions as outbreaks persisted for decades. Some economists have conten-ded that this pandemic will lead to severe economic crises (Gans, 2020) as well. Subsequent studies (e.g., Jordà et al., 2020) similarly suggested that COVID-19 will have enduring consequences on the world’s economy, such as considerably lower return rates, with no nation escaping untouched. Susskind and Vines (2020) pointed out that this pandemic has triggered the most severe global economic consequences since the South Sea Bubble burst in 1720. Indeed, a World Bank analysis showed that COVID-19 caused economic activity to fall in nearly 90% of countries in 2020—exceeding the proportion of nations that saw similar declines during the Great Depression in the 1930s and the two world wars combined. Global economic contraction of almost 3% and a generation-first rise in poverty
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Pub Date : 2023-06-11DOI: 10.1177/09717218231178201
B. Lundvall
In this think-piece, I reflect on what lessons innovation scholars and innovation policymakers in the developing world can draw from the COVID-19 crisis. While it has confirmed the fundamental importance of science and technology in coping with a major global challenge, it has also shown its limitations and the importance of institutions and organisational capabilities. While the crisis has demonstrated the necessity to build stronger national innovation systems (NSI) in the South, it has also simultaneously shown the need to go beyond national governance and move in the direction of a global innovation system. The COVID-19 crisis has reinforced new trends in technology and in global competition that challenge innovation system theory and innovation policy. The crisis stimulated the application and development of artificial intelligence and accelerated the concentration of intellectual capital in a handful of tech giants located in the US and China. While the volume of trade in digital services kept growing, there was a dramatic fall in the volume of global value chain trade in tangibles. These developments intensified the China-US rivalry and undermined transnational collaborations in science and technology. Countries in the South aiming at building stronger national innovation systems need to do so under new circumstances, where artificial intelligence is emerging as a strategic technology, where intellectual monopolies harvest data worldwide, where great powers are engaged in technological rivalry, and where linking up with global value chains for tangibles has become less of an option. One implication is that the issue of scale has become more critical than before; groupings of small and medium-sized countries need to integrate economically and politically in order to develop crucial digital capabilities and competitiveness. Such moves in the direction of forming transnational innovation systems are consonant with strategies to cope with global challenges.
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Pub Date : 2023-06-11DOI: 10.1177/09717218231178339
Soumodip Sarkar, Sara Mateus
In resource-poor emerging economies, the COVID-19 pandemic has inspired governments and various organisations to develop innovative solutions to help combat the pandemic. We conducted a qualitative evidence synthesis of 19 cases drawn from a sample of emerging countries to understand how varied actors rapidly forged healthcare solutions. We uncover the entrepreneurial agency of bricolage as an intrinsic, unconscious and cooperative process of entrepreneurial action in crisis management. Our study contributes to the theory of bricolage as we propose the concept of ‘crisis-driven bricolage’ in healthcare. By highlighting the capacity of multiple actors to collaborate and create effective healthcare solutions within a very short timeframe, our study holds strong practical implications for regional responses. It encourages bricolage as a viable solution when resources are tight and responses need to be rapid. Our study proposes greater consideration of bricolage as a way to provide low-cost and efficacious solutions, and as a complement to society’s innovation repertoire.
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Pub Date : 2023-06-11DOI: 10.1177/09717218231178277
Zhigang Fan, Xuanshun Zhai, Dong Wu
In an era of VUCA, strategic flexibility may play a greater role for a company to achieve competitive advantage than innovation. Based on an integrated social network and absorptive capacity perspective, this article proposes a conceptual model in which the local firm’s strategic flexibility is affected by its position in global production network and its internal absorptive capacity. Using a sample of 276 local manufacturers located in the Yangtze River Delta, China, the roles of social networks and absorptive capacity in strategic flexibility are identified, and the results indicate that by occupying a central and strong-tie-abundant network position, local firms can gain more resource flexibility; and absorptive capacity possessed by a local firm plays an active role in coordination flexibility.
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Pub Date : 2023-06-08DOI: 10.1177/09717218231161235
Jian Hou, W. Bai, Dechun Sha
How to reduce carbon emissions is a critical problem in the world, especially when the emerging economy grows and technology breakthrough happens frequently. In this study, we systematically evaluate China’s digital economy based on regional data experience and construct a nonlinear dynamic threshold model to incorporate a heterogeneous threshold of green technology innovation into the influential mechanism to figure out whether the digital economy can effectively reduce regional carbon emissions. According to the results, China’s digital economy currently shows a trend of overall upward and local fluctuation and there is a large ‘gap’ between the rich and poor. Interestingly, green technology innovation has a heterogeneous threshold effect between the digital economy and carbon emissions: a lesser level of green technology innovation promotes the carbon emission impact of the digital economy to a certain extent, but when green technology innovation rises and exceeds a threshold, the digital economy can dramatically inhibit regional carbon emissions. This study answers the question of how to use the threshold effect of green technology innovation to reduce carbon emissions in the digital economy, which has significant theoretical and practical value to reduce carbon emissions in developing countries.
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