Innovation studies traditionally emphasized product and service innovations that enhance market potential, alongside process and organizational innovations that improve production efficiency and enable new business models (Ferrigno et al., 2023). Recent eco-innovation literature views environmentally beneficial innovations as important responses to climate change (Ferrigno et al., 2023; Cainelli et al., 2020; Demirel et al., 2025). However, this perspective still assumes a stable, predictable economy based on extractive production and consumption models. This assumption conflicts with current reality: climate change undermines economic systems, disrupts supply chains, and destroys infrastructure supporting production, transport, and daily life. Innovation for climate resilience requires a renewed research agenda that challenges foundational assumptions while generating simultaneous environmental, economic, and social value (De Silva et al, 2021).

This track seeks an innovation perspective that, while rooted in foundational economics and management of innovation, offers fresh insights into solutions supporting actors across organisational and geographical levels in developing climate-resilient innovations (Hernes et al., 2025), possibly leveraging on the generative potential of digital technologies (D’Ippolito et al., 2025).

As climate changes, familiar risks and established mitigation strategies become less relevant. Firms and industries now confront previously unknown risks threatening physical infrastructure, logistics, and legitimacy with governments and society. Climate adaptation becomes essential for producing innovations that enhance resilience against climate uncertainties (Benischke et al., 2025). Effective resilience-building requires technological and social innovations beyond system efficiencies, embracing a true systems perspective alongside an understanding of participatory methods that can support experiential learning (Simeone and D’Ippolito, 2022). Critically, this demands co-creation approaches—collaborative processes engaging diverse stakeholders including communities, regulators, and supply chain partners in designing and implementing adaptive solutions that generate economic, environmental, and social value (De Silva and Wright, 2019). Participatory innovation enhances legitimacy and contextual relevance while fostering shared ownership of climate responses. While the relationship between climate mitigation and adaptation is complex and non-linear (Tashman and Rivera, 2015), co-creation provides a dynamic pathway through inclusive, iterative learning, and action (De Silva et al, 2025).

To advance theoretical and empirical debates on how innovation supports social, environmental, and economic resilience to climate challenges, paper submissions may address, among others, the following priority topics:
1. Emerging organisational strategies for climate risk mitigation and adaptation, and their impacts on firm economic, social, and environmental performance.
2. Firm and city-level perspectives on climate resilience.
3. The role of organisational purpose in driving climate resilience strategies.
4. Design-driven foresight, collaboration, and stakeholder co-creation for building climate resilience across organisational boundaries.
5. The enabling role of digital technologies in supporting climate resilience across firm, industry, city, and national levels.
6. New skills and capabilities needed for climate resilience and leveraging existing competencies and systems to promote resilience at different levels.