Responsible Innovation (RI) has emerged as a critical paradigm for aligning innovation processes with ethical standards, societal needs, and long-term sustainability goals. It provides a structured framework that helps organizations anticipate the broader implications of their innovations, engage stakeholders inclusively, and respond adaptively to emerging challenges. The RI framework, anchored in anticipation, reflexivity, inclusion, and responsiveness, encourages innovators to balance creativity with accountability, ensuring that technological and organizational progress contributes positively to society and the environment.

Despite its growing relevance, the practical implementation of RI within organizations remains underdeveloped. Much of the existing literature has concentrated on its normative and ethical dimensions, often overlooking its strategic potential to drive performance, competitiveness, and sustainability outcomes. There is a pressing need to understand how RI can be operationalized within organizational and inter-organizational contexts, particularly in ways that deliver both social and economic value.

Digitalisation is transforming the nature and pace of innovation. Digital capabilities encompassing data integration, analytics, artificial intelligence, and platform technologies, are reshaping how firms sense opportunities, coordinate activities, and respond to environmental and societal challenges. These capabilities enhance transparency, facilitate collaboration, and improve decision-making, thus creating impactful ground for embedding responsible innovation principles into practice. Digital technologies not only enable firms to manage risks and compliance more eCectively but also to anticipate social and environmental impacts early in the innovation process.

This track explores how digital capabilities can serve as catalysts for responsible and sustainable innovation. It welcomes conceptual, empirical, and methodological contributions that address how digital transformation enhances RI and sustainability practices across industries, sectors, and global value chains. Of particular interest are studies examining how digital tools enable grant challenges and sustainable development goals by improving traceability, coordination, and data-driven responsiveness.

The track also seeks to unpack the role of digital capability asymmetry, governance mechanisms, and stakeholder alignment in shaping responsible innovation outcomes. It encourages multi-level and interdisciplinary approaches that integrate insights from operations management, sustainability studies, information systems, and innovation theory.

Proposed themes are suggested by not limited to:
• Articulating digital capabilities within the Responsible Innovation (RI) framework—anticipation, reflexivity, inclusion, and responsiveness—to enhance innovation processes and outcomes.
• Exploring how digital transformation can balance eCiciency, ethics, and sustainability in production and supply chain systems.
• Investigating governance models, data strategies, and institutional mechanisms needed to embed digital ethics and accountability into innovation practices.
• Examining the role of digital technologies in enabling circular and regenerative supply chain models that support responsible and sustainable transitions.
• Understanding how digital capability asymmetry and stakeholder alignment influence the implementation of RI and sustainability practices.
• Analysing how digital tools facilitate collaboration, transparency, and responsiveness across global innovation ecosystems.
• Identifying the performance, policy, and societal impacts of integrating digital capabilities into responsible and sustainable innovation strategies.

This track aims to advance theoretical understanding and practical implementation of RI in the digital age. It aspires to build a community dedicated to exploring how digitalisation can not only accelerate innovation but also make it more inclusive, accountable, and sustainable, contributing to the broader transition toward responsible, circular, and resilient economic systems.