Sudhanshu Rai and Mogens Kühn Pedersen serve as Special Issue Editors on ICT Innovation in Emerging Economies in JITCAR

In this special issue we highlight the role played by IT Innovation in Emerging Economies. To understand this role with some clarity we focus on three theme concepts derived from underlining theoretical frames researchers have used to explain innovation. We identify these as the economic theme, the knowledge theme and the interactive globalization theme. Using each of these themes, we make some observations about the state of the art for IT innovation research. For instance, we conjecture that IT innovation needs to be researched independently rather than in terms of diffusion or adoption studies. In the knowledge theme we propose that IT innovation will flourish only if local knowledge is made mainstream. It means that not all knowledge needs to be scientific knowledge, but it does need to be locally embedded. Therefore, we suggest that local knowledge be given more legitimacy for IT innovation. From the interactive globalization theme we suggest that co-creation is a form of IT innovation and that co-creation is mutually beneficial.

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