Information For Authors

Fit Check for Authors

Before submitting your manuscript to the Journal of Technology Management and Innovation (JOTMI), make sure you can answer "yes" to these three questions:

  1. Does your manuscript address a clearly identified problem of technology management and/or innovation, rather than treating technology as incidental background?
  2. Does it fall within one of the journal's three subject categories and one of its seven thematic areas?
  3. Does it offer implications for managers, entrepreneurs, or policymakers — ideally with relevance to Latin America, the Caribbean, Ibero-America, or comparable emerging contexts?

Manuscripts that do not meet these criteria will normally be desk-rejected. Please indicate in your cover letter the category and the primary thematic area to which your work contributes.

Categories

  • Management of Technology and Innovation: how technologies and innovations are created, adopted, governed, and managed by organizations, governments, and innovation systems.
  • Business and International Management: how firms compete, internationalize, and organize in technology-intensive contexts.
  • Strategy and Management: the strategic decisions, organizational capabilities, and processes that underpin innovation performance.

Thematic Areas

  1. STI policy for mission-oriented and digital–sustainable transitions: policy instruments, innovation systems, the twin digital–green transition, measurement and indicators.
  2. Artificial intelligence and emerging technologies: organizational adoption, responsible management, and governance, with attention to Global South challenges.
  3. Technology strategy, open innovation, and collaborative ecosystems: alliances, university–industry linkages, academic entrepreneurship and spin-offs, technology transfer and commercialization.
  4. Geopolitics, technological sovereignty, and global value chains: nearshoring, critical minerals, natural-resource-based innovation, strategic technologies.
  5. Technology entrepreneurship, SMEs, and sustainable business models in emerging markets: entrepreneurial ecosystems, SME digital transformation, financing and scaling.
  6. Public sector innovation and digital government: govtech, government innovation labs, digital public services and infrastructure.
  7. Capabilities, talent, and inclusive innovation in the digital era: dynamic capabilities, creativity, workforce reskilling, digital inclusion, frugal innovation.

The areas are not mutually exclusive: if your manuscript speaks to more than one, identify the primary one. The full description of each area — including what falls within and outside its scope — is available in the journal's Focus and Scope section.

Selection Criteria

The journal prioritizes, in this order: research papers reporting original, rigorous studies; case studies providing real-world applications and insights; and review papers summarizing existing knowledge and trends. Every submission should be novel, relevant, concise, and practical; demonstrate methodological rigor, coherent argumentation, and clear presentation; and offer actionable guidance for practitioners, policymakers, and other stakeholders in the field.

Contributor Roles Taxonomy (CRediT)

JOTMI adopts the Contributor Roles Taxonomy (CRediT, ANSI/NISO Z39.104-2022) to recognize each author's contribution transparently. Together with the submission, authors must include a contribution statement assigning one or more of the following fourteen roles to each author:

  • Conceptualization: formulation of the overarching research ideas, goals, and aims.
  • Data curation: management, annotation, scrubbing, and maintenance of research data.
  • Formal analysis: application of statistical, mathematical, or computational techniques to analyze data.
  • Funding acquisition: acquisition of the financial support for the project.
  • Investigation: conducting the research process, including data or evidence collection.
  • Methodology: development or design of the methodology; creation of models.
  • Project administration: management and coordination of research planning and execution.
  • Resources: provision of study materials, instruments, data, or computing resources.
  • Software: programming, software development, and implementation of code and algorithms.
  • Supervision: leadership and mentorship responsibility for research planning and execution.
  • Validation: verification of the replicability and reproducibility of results.
  • Visualization: preparation and creation of the visual presentation of data.
  • Writing — original draft: preparation and writing of the initial draft of the manuscript.
  • Writing — review and editing: critical review, commentary, and editing of manuscript versions.

All listed authors must have made at least one substantive contribution and approved the final version of the manuscript. The CRediT statement is included on the title page — which is not part of the anonymized manuscript — and will be recorded in the publication metadata. CRediT complements, and does not replace, the journal's authorship criteria.

Regional Emphasis: the journal prioritizes contributions that generate evidence from — or carry implications for — Latin America, the Caribbean, and Ibero-America, without excluding work from other emerging regions whose lessons are transferable.