The COVID-19 pandemic highlighted the need to manage complex relations within the healthcare ecosystem. The role of new technologies in achieving this goal is a topic of current interest. Among them, blockchain technology is experiencing widespread application in the healthcare context. The present work investigates how this technology fosters value co-creation paths in the new digital healthcare ecosystems. To this end, a multiple case study has been conducted examining the development and application of blockchain by 32 healthcare tech companies. The results show blockchain technology adoption’s current and potential impacts on value co-creation regarding data and resource sharing, patient participation, and collaboration between professionals. Three main areas of activity emerge from the case studies where blockchain implementation brings significant benefits for value co-creation: improving service interaction, impacting actors’ engagement, and fostering ecosystem transparency.

This article aims at presenting Blockchain and Distributed Ledger Technologies from business perspective (although providing adequate technology context) and, especially, highlighting concrete implementations in Agri-Food Supply Chain, bringing security, transparency and robustness to solutions, and enabling the creation of added value through the provisioning of information to consumers which allow them to understand the origin, the transformation and the transportation of agri-food goods. It also brings some examples of European Programmes and Projects that are supporting innovative solutions to reach the market.

This study aims at understanding the use of ICT core Learning and Innovation (L&I) practices and their impact in the firm capability. The analysis of organizational learning capability proposals and the Portuguese innovation management standard NP4457 recommendations, allowed the identification of five common practices that were used in the study: idea generation; market and technology surveillance; problem solving; dialogue and knowledge transfer; training and competence development. A mixed method case study has been developed with a Portuguese large company, where each L&I practice was assessed in a perspective of the means promoted by the organization - processes and ICT resources; and results - in terms of the institutional leader and workers’ perceptions regarding the impact of those practices. The leader perception was collected through interview process and worker’s perception through an online questionnaire. The paper provides some findings showing that ICT is proving to promote an effective basis for organizational L&I practices and it is perceived by both leader and workers has contributing positively to the firm capability.

O desenvolvimento do Passaporte Digital de Produto (PDP), no âmbito da Agenda Mobilizadora "Ecocerâmica e Cristalaria de Portugal" (Agenda ECP) do PRR, resulta da colaboração entre a APICER e o INOV, focada na transição digital e verde do setor cerâmico nacional. O PDP é uma ferramenta que permite recolher e transmitir informação ao longo do ciclo de vida do produto e da cadeia de valor, incluindo dados de impacte ambiental, requisitos de ecodesign e circularidade. A arquitetura técnica, desenvolvida pelo INOV, baseia-se numa plataforma de interoperabilidade com modelo de dados extensível e normalizado, suportado por modelos semânticos que asseguram integração com diferentes sistemas. Inclui mapeamento para ambientes IFC/bSDD, permitindo ligação aos Product Data Templates (PDT) no BIM, bem como APIs, protocolos abertos de comunicação máquina a máquina e mecanismos robustos de autenticação e autorização. O sistema está alinhado com as normas em desenvolvimento pela CEN/CENELEC/JTC 24, com participação da APICER e do INOV via CT 228 do IPQ, e cumpre o quadro regulatório europeu, nomeadamente os Regulamentos (UE) 2024/1781 e 2024/3110. Os resultados incluem protótipos funcionais validados, permitindo testar fluxos de dados entre fabricantes e plataformas, contribuindo para maior competitividade, sustentabilidade e transparência da informação do produto.