As various scholars have pointed out, the exponential growth in digital technologies has resulted in significant improvements to many business processes, and has also played a significant role in the field of innovation. The purpose of this paper is to organise the contributions of this special issue according to a framework that considers three topics currently being debated extensively in literature: innovation inputs, innovation processes and innovation outcomes.,Papers in this special issue adopt both qualitative and quantitative approaches based on the purpose of the study, which gives also a methodological variety to the special issue.,Papers in this special issue show that because of digital technologies: first, inputs are progressively becoming interrelated, making most of innovation endeavours happening in inter-organizational ecosystems of actors; second, innovation processes are gradually being compressed, anticipating and enhancing the phases in which customer feedback is gathered and employed; and finally, innovation outputs are increasingly taking the form of platforms used to create value by matching the supply of an asset with demand.,The value of this and other papers included in the special issue consists of embracing the topic of digital innovation from a managerial standpoint, contributing to the understanding of how the innovation process and other business processes may be affected by the use of digital technologies.

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创新过程的数字化

正如各种学者指出的那样，数字技术的指数增长已导致许多业务流程的显着改善，并且在创新领域也发挥了重要作用。本文的目的是根据一个框架来组织本期专刊的贡献，该框架考虑了目前在文献中广泛讨论的三个主题：创新投入，创新过程和创新成果。本期专刊的论文采用定性和定量方法根据研究的目的，这也为该特刊提供了一种方法上的多样性。该特刊中的论文表明，由于数字技术的存在：首先，输入正逐渐变得相互关联，使大多数创新努力发生在参与者的组织间生态系统中；其次，创新过程正在逐渐被压缩，预期并增强收集和采用客户反馈的阶段。最后，创新输出越来越多地采用通过将资产的供应与需求相匹配来创造价值的平台的形式。本期以及本期特刊中其他论文的价值在于，从管理者的角度出发涵盖数字创新这一主题。观点，有助于理解如何使用数字技术来影响创新过程和其他业务过程。