About the Journal

Aims and scope

INMR – Innovation & Management Review is a continuous publication organised by the Business department of the University of Sao Paulo, Brazil. INMR's main objectives are: to disseminate the intellectual production in the field of technological, organisational and market innovation, stimulating creative academic and research contributions; to do its share in increasing the knowledge production of the academic and professional communities related to applied sciences in the field of innovation; to serve as a proper channel to spread conceptual and methodological advances and experiences of innovation in modern society; and to encourage the dissemination of knowledge that promotes new studies and new theoretical and empirical formulations for the field of innovation. 

The journal covers all fields of innovation including: 

  • Innovation, innovation management
  • Business models innovation, startups
  • Social innovation, responsible innovation
  • Entrepreneurship
  • Innovation ecosystems
  • Technology management innovation
  • Service innovation
  • Innovation strategy, innovation capabilities
  • Research & development R&D, new product development
  • Digital transformation, industry 4.0
  • Sustainability and innovation in emerging economies  
  • Integrating innovation for business and society  

This journal offers immediate access to its content, following the principle of making scientific knowledge freely available to the public, providing greater global democratisation of knowledge. 

From January 1, 2026, original manuscripts must be submitted exclusively in English. 

INMR adopts a continuous publication model, with articles published online after the completion of the editorial and production processes.

Open access

All articles published in INMR are published Open Access under a CCBY 4.0 licence.

Editor-in-Chief

  • Alceu Salles Camargo Junior
    School of Economics, Business Administration and Accounting, University of São Paulo (FEA-USP), São Paulo, Brazil
  • Rafael Morais Pereira
    School of Economics, Business Administration and Accounting, University of São Paulo (FEA-USP), São Paulo, Brazil

Submit to the journal

When submitting a manuscript, authors will be taken to a service called Paperpal Preflight, an AI-driven tool that checks manuscripts against the journal's author guidelines. Authors are free to use or bypass this step and submit directly to ScholarOne.

Submissions to INMR are made using ScholarOne Manuscripts, the online submission and peer review system. Registration and access is available at https://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/inmr. Full information and guidance on using ScholarOne Manuscripts is available at the Emerald ScholarOne Manuscripts Support Centre: http://mchelp.manuscriptcentral.com/gethelpnow.

INMR adopts a continuous publication model, with articles published online after the completion of the editorial and production processes. Please visit the INMR homepage (https://inmr.com.br/)

Registering on ScholarOne Manuscripts

IMPORTANT – The journal requires that all authors (both the corresponding and co-authors) have a valid ORCiD in order to publish. It is the responsibility of the submitting author to ensure that all relevant ORCiDs are captured. In order to obtain your ORCiD, please follow this link: https://orcid.org/register

If you have not yet registered on ScholarOne Manuscripts, please follow the instructions below:

  • Please log on to https://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/inmr
  • Click on "Create Account"
  • Follow the on-screen instructions, filling in the requested details before proceeding
  • Your username will be your e-mail address and you have to input a password of at least 8 characters in length and containing two or more numbers
  • Click "Finish" and your account will have been created.

Submitting an article to INMR on ScholarOne Manuscripts

  • Please log on to INMR at https://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/inmr with your username and password. This will take you through to the welcome page (to consult the Author Guidelines for this journal, click on the homepage link in the "Resources" column)
  • Click on the "Author Centre" button
  • Click on the "Submit a manuscript" link which will take you through to the Manuscript Submission page
  • Submitting authors are required to confirm the contributions of all authors to the paper at the 'Author Contribution- CRediT Taxonomy' stage
  • Complete all fields and browse to upload your article
  • When all required sections are completed, preview your PDF proof
  • Submit your manuscript

Review process

Each paper submitted is reviewed by at least two external reviewers and the editors to assess its suitability to the journal. All manuscripts which format does not follow the guidelines indicated below will be rejected without further consideration.

Copyright

Articles submitted to the journal should not have been published before in their current or substantially similar form, or be under consideration for publication with another journal. Please see Emerald's originality guidelines for details. Authors submitting articles for publication warrant that the work is not an infringement of any existing copyright and will indemnify the publisher against any breach of such warranty.

The editor may make use of iThenticate software for checking the originality of submissions received.

This is an open access journal. All works are published under Creative Commons CC-BY license which means that all content is freely available without charge to the user or his/her institution. Users are allowed to read, download, copy, distribute, print, search, or link to the full texts of the articles, or use them for any other lawful purpose, without asking prior permission from the publisher or the author.

View the license in more detail.

Author responsibilities

Our goal is to provide you with a professional and courteous experience at each stage of the review and publication process. There are also some responsibilities that sit with you as the author. Our expectation is that you will:

  • Respond swiftly to any queries during the publication process.
  • Be accountable for all aspects of your work. This includes investigating and resolving any questions about accuracy or research integrity
  • Treat communications between you and the journal editor as confidential until an editorial decision has been made.
  • Read about our research ethics for authorship. These state that you must:
    • Include anyone who has made a substantial and meaningful contribution to the submission (anyone else involved in the paper should be listed in the acknowledgements).
    • Exclude anyone who hasn’t contributed to the paper, or who has chosen not to be associated with the research.
    • In accordance with COPE’s position statement on AI tools, Large Language Models cannot be credited with authorship as they are incapable of conceptualising a research design without human direction and cannot be accountable for the integrity, originality, and validity of the published work.
  • If your article involves human participants, you must ensure you have considered whether or not you require ethical approval for your research, and include this information as part of your submission. Find out more about informed consent.

Emerald’s Policy on AI Usage

Emerald’s overarching principles of AI usage:

1) Authors and peer reviewers are responsible and accountable for the accuracy and integrity of their work.&

2) AI tools and technology must be used responsibly and transparently.

3) AI tools and technology should not replace human involvement in the publication process but instead supplement it.

Copywriting (creating, drafting, or writing) any part of a submission using generative AI tools and technology to generate new material is not permitted.

Copy-editing (correcting, editing, formatting, modifying, or refining) all or part of an author’s own original existing work using generative AI tools and technology the content to improve its structure and the clarity of the language and grammar is permitted, ensuring users adhere to the following overarching principles.

Emerald’s full policy, including examples of use cases can be found on our Publishing Ethics page.

Third party copyright permissions

Prior to article submission, authors should clear permission to use any content that has not been created by them.

Failure to do so may lead to lengthy delays in publication. Emerald is unable to publish any article which has permissions pending. The rights Emerald requires are:

  1. Non-exclusive rights to reproduce the material in the article or book chapter.
  2. Print and electronic rights.
  3. Worldwide English language rights.
  4. To use the material for the life of the work (i.e. there should be no time restrictions on the re-use of material e.g. a one-year licence).

When reproducing tables, figures or excerpts (of more than 250 words) from another source, it is expected that:

  1. Authors obtain the necessary written permission in advance from any third party owners of copyright for the use in print and electronic formats of any of their text, illustrations, graphics, or other material, in their manuscript. Permission must also be cleared for any minor adaptations of any work not created by them.
  2. If an author adapts significantly any material, the author must inform the copyright holder of the original work.
  3. Authors obtain any proof of consent statements
  4. Authors must always acknowledge the source in figure captions and refer to the source in the reference list.

Authors should not assume that any content which is freely available on the web is free to use. Authors should check the website for details of the copyright holder to seek permission for re-use.

Informed consent

If your article involves human participants, you must ensure you have considered whether or not you require ethical approval for your research, and include this information as part of your submission. Find out more about informed consent.

Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE)

Emerald supports the development of, and practical application of consistent ethical standards throughout the scholarly publishing community.

All Emerald’s journals and editors are members of the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE) which provides advice on all aspects of publication ethics. Emerald follows the Committee’s flowcharts in cases of research and publication misconduct, enabling journals to adhere to the highest ethical standards in publishing. Find out more on Emerald’s publication ethics policy.

Copyright forms

Upon acceptance of an article authors will be requested to sign a Creative Commons Attribution Licence 4.0 (CC BY 4.0). Publishing under a CC BY 4.0 license means:

  • Copyright in the article is retained by the author.
  • The author grants Emerald a licence to publish the article and identify itself as the original publisher.
  • Your article can be shared freely, including copying and redistributing the material in any medium or format.
  • Your article can be adapted, remixed, transformed, and built upon the material for any purpose, even commercially.
  • Full attribution to the original work must be included in any derivatives, indicating if/where changes have been made.

Authors will be asked to complete the CC BY 4.0 licence through ScholarOne. All authors are sent an e-mail with links to the licence form, which they must check for accuracy and submit electronically.

Author fees

The journal is published under a Diamond Open Access arrangement, in that all costs associated with publishing an Open Access article in the journal are funded by the Universidade de São Paulo. This journal does not charge APCs or submission charges.

Emerald Editing Service

Emerald is pleased to partner with Peerwith to provide editorial support for authors wishing to submit papers to Emerald journals. Peerwith is a platform for author services, connecting academics seeking support for their work with the relevant expert who can help out with language editing and translation, visuals, consulting, or anything else academics need to get their research submission-ready.

Final submission

The author must ensure that the manuscript is complete, grammatically correct and without spelling or typographical errors. Before submitting, authors should check their submission completeness using the available Article Submission Checklist. Proofs will be e-mailed prior to publication.

Archiving policy

Emerald provides perpetual access for all eJournal and book content by working with digital preservation schemes Portico, LOCKSS and CLOCKSS. Find out more about Emerald’s archiving policy.

References

Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE). Core Practices and Guidelines for Journal Editors. Available at: https://publicationethics.org/

Emerald Publishing. Research and Publication Ethics Guidelines.

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  • WorldCat

Sponsors

Sources of Support

 

INMR – Innovation & Management Review is published by Emerald Publishing on behalf of Universidade de São Paulo.

INMR – Innovation & Management Review is owned by Universidade de São Paulo.

For further information, please visit the INMR – Innovation & Management Review  website: https://inmr.com.br/about/