Innovative Technologies and Management Practices for Sustainable Development
A special issue of Sustainability (ISSN 2071-1050).
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 15 July 2025 | Viewed by 40
Special Issue Editors
Interests: innovation; innovative technologies; patents; quality management; sustainability
Interests: computer science; computer architecture; cybersecurity; health information systems; smart cities
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
(1) Countries can become developed by building their own technologies and designing their own products. They can then sell the products that they design through their own brands on the world market.
The group of developed countries can be seen as including all the G7 countries. The remaining countries, with some exceptions, can be seen as developing countries.
Developed countries carry out scientific research to obtain the knowledge required to create and design new products, which we call a working mind. Products are created by developing countries, but value is added by developed countries. In developing countries, companies only pay salaries, prioritizing cheap labor.
Therefore, if developing countries wish to become developed countries, then they must conceive and design their own products.
(2) The main objective of this Special Issue is to address the importance of patents in the creation of innovative technologies so that innovation can happen. Once there is a prototype for a product, we must produce it to a high standard, within the rules that sustainability imposes.
(3) Suggest themes.
For this Special Issue, original research articles and reviews are welcome. Research areas may include (but are not limited to) the following:
- innovative technologies;
- technology transfer;
- importance of patents in technological development;
- product development;
- quality management;
- new information technologies.
We look forward to receiving your contributions.
Dr. Sandro Carvalho
Prof. Dr. Gilberto Santos
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- innovation
- technologies
- product development
- quality management
- sustainability
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