Many companies, including Czech enterprises, are still struggling with the concept of Quality 4.0, as there are a lot of uncertainties, misunderstandings, and false approaches.
Simultaneously, traditional quality management processes must be significantly changed, and the umbrella term “Quality 4.0” is used to represent this transformation. Production companies throughout the world are currently facing challenges with the extensive transformation of their processes with regard to digitalisation and other features of Industry 4.0. These can be used to design and evaluate policies that promote sustainable innovation and development as core features of innovation ecosystems. Specifically, we identified the following factors: the willingness and capacity of innovation actors to develop cross-boundary interactions on a global scale an institutionalised civil society based on bottom-up media and the prevailing sustainability ethos in economic, social and environmental dimensions. To identify these factors, we also drew on the concept of policy layering and the neo-Triple Helix model of innovation ecosystems. To develop an analytical framework that identifies factors to be considered in policies that facilitate the transition towards innovation ecosystems, we synthesised the literature that investigated (1) the role of policy in innovation systems, (2) new features of innovation ecosystems and (3) the relations between (transformative) policies and innovation ecosystems. Despite the numerous studies that examined the role of innovation policies in promoting innovation systems and the increasing attention paid to the transition from innovation systems to innovation ecosystems in the literature, research on the role of public policy in facilitating this transition is sparse. This study investigated the role of public policy in transforming innovation systems into innovation ecosystems. Finally, this study creatively introduces the SOIPE of MSEs, which has important policy ramifications. In addition, this study presents an assessment of the impact and environmental volatility of a public emergency, as well as MSEs’ SOIPE, which is more helpful for enterprises. From both a theoretical and empirical perspective, this study suggests that MSEs should identify their optimal SOIPE based on the impact and volatility of a public emergency. Some studies focused on marketing innovation, while others were hampered by their limited understanding. In a qualitative study and literature review, MSEs were found to use SOIPE in a variety of ways. In this paper, we combined nominal group technique, fuzzy analytical hierarchy process, least squares, and a case study to investigate governance, economic, financial, sociocultural, and environmental sustainability and demonstrate the MSEs’ sustainability evaluation model. The originality of this study lies in its prediction and evaluation of COVID-19′s challenges and SOIPE’s requirements to have a keen observation and discovery ability. The economic impact of a public emergency, such as the COVID-19 pandemic, is often reduced by micro and small businesses (MSEs) undertaking sustainability-oriented innovation for public emergencies (SOIPE), which includes production and service innovation, information innovation, marketing innovation, and labor innovation.
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In vulnerable regions such as the tropics, however, there is still limited understanding of the impacts of biochar on soil–water interactions and on plant water composition. Biochar has the potential to help to achieve sustainable water management in agriculture by increasing soil water holding capacity.