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    From the Dark Side of Industry 4.0 to Society 5.0: Looking “Beyond the Box” to Developing Human-Centric Innovation Ecosystems

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    Both the pandemic and the global climate changes accelerate the need for urgent solutions to guarantee humanity’s sustainable and prosperous future. Remarkably, at the 10-year mark of introducing Industry 4.0, the adverse effects arising from adopting absolute technocentric perspectives are now evident. Scholars and practitioners claim new plans for a future where technology empowers people and innovationworks for business and society. Humans and machines are expected to reconcile and work in symbiosis, supporting the emergence of Super Smart Societies (S5.0), the last ones based on human-centricity, sustainability, and resilience. Despite the mentioned, guidelines on how technocentric and human-centric innovations should combine to trigger S5.0 are still missing. Depending on the above, this article aims to design a comprehensive framework based on the Quintuple Helix Model, supporting the design and the implementation of S5.0. In doing so, several prescriptions on howGovernment, University, Industry, Civil Society, and Environment may address the goals of S5.0 are provided

    The Non-contextual Drivers of Innovation: Development and Validation of the 5H-INN Survey

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    Understanding and identifying the drivers of innovation has been considered crucial for many years, as innovating supports local competitiveness and the economic growth of whole systems. Accordingly, the mainstream focuses on geographical and sectoral loci when debating innovation ecosystems, thus neglecting the driving forces behind the innovation, which are noncontextual factors enabling the process. To fill this gap, we propose an integrated framework for identifying the drivers of innovation (different from cultural, geographic, and sectoral loci) that combines the Quintuple Helix Model and the Innovation Process Research. In so doing, we develop and validate the 5H-INN survey as an innovative and valuable tool to be applied independently from “time” and “space.” This instrument, never developed before, is expected to support our understanding of the innovative dynamics and benefit future research and societal development
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