Guest editorial: Promoting knowledge practices for stimulating innovation in Society 5.0

Society 5.0 is an era that embodies a revolution in integrating various technologies and human-based approaches for sustainable and intelligent societal development. Innovation practices have been increasingly elaborating in a manner that integrates technical potentialities with complex human-centered interaction and sustainability sophistication. In this regard, this special issue of the European Journal of Innovation Management provides unique explanations regarding innovation management in the context of Society 5.0’s evolutionary nature. Given the primary themes outlined in the Call for Papers, the Special Issue addresses an emergent claim: multi-dimensionality of knowledge in human-centered and sustainable innovation creation. The Call asserted that increased...