Title: ICT infrastructure and innovation: determinants, potentials, and policy implications

Authors: Ajoy Ketan Sarangi; Rudra P. Pradhan; Madhusmita Misra

Addresses: Vinod Gupta School of Management, Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur, Kharagpur, 721302, India; National Informatics Centre, Baripada, Odisha, India ' Vinod Gupta School of Management, Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur, Kharagpur, 721302, India ' Trimax IT Infrastructure & Services Limited, Universal Mill Building, 2nd Floor, Mehra Estate, L.B.S. Road Vikhroli West, Mumbai-400079, Maharastra, India

Abstract: The paper studies emerging ICT infrastructure qualitatively and represents the determinants and their influence on innovations conceptually using design thinking. It proposes ICT adoption factors, delivers techno-managerial values for strategic resource management, and reveals their interplay dynamics to propose policies for triggering digital innovations and research output. It identifies artificial intelligence, robotic process automation, cloud, edge, fog and quantum computing for product, process, organisation innovations and knowledge engineering. It delivers technical structure and determinants, conceptual framework, technological, business, innovation potentials and advantages of ICT infrastructure to facilitate innovation, decision-making, design, and implementations with social and economic ramifications.

Keywords: ICT-infrastructure; innovation; ICT determinant; ICT effectiveness; innovation potential.

DOI: 10.1504/WRSTSD.2023.133888

World Review of Science, Technology and Sustainable Development, 2023 Vol.19 No.4, pp.314 - 348

Received: 15 Mar 2021
Accepted: 20 Oct 2021
Published online: 05 Oct 2023 *

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