Digital technologies, Fourth Industrial Revolution (4IR) & Global Value Chains (GVCs) nexus with emerging economies’ future industrial innovation dynamics

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Figure 1. Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Literature Review and Meta-Analysis (PRISMA) flow chart.

Source: Researchers’ Conception (2021).

Table 1. Digital technologies, 4IR, GVC and emerging economies databases search process

Field of Study	Representative Research articles (from 2012 to 2021) (N = 143)
Digital Technologies	Schäfer (2018), Cezarino et al. (2019), Menon and Fink (2019), Rai (2017), Mühleisen (2018), Maeyen and Van Klyton (2020), Xu et al. (2018), Schwab (2016), Akileswaran and Hutchinson (2019).
4IR	Bauer et al. (2018), Belinski et al. (2020), Kamble et al. (2018), Jabbour et al. (2018), Sanders et al. (2016), Mrugalska and Wyrwicka (2017), Santos et al. (2017), Dolgui et al. (2018), Tripathi and Gupta (2021), Ardito et al. (2019), Belinski et al. (2020), Luthra and Mangla (2017).
GVCs	Anner (2015), Baldwin (2012), Bhagwati (1958), Dünhaupt and Herr (2020), Farole (2016), Frederico et al. (2019), Gereffi (1994), Gereffi and Frederick (2010). Yeung (2014), Rodrik (2018), Milberg and Winkler (2013), UNCTAD (2013), Zhu and Morgan (2018), Xiao et al. (2020), Banga (2021), Szalavetz, 2019), World Bank (2016, 2020).
Emerging Economies	Lundvall (2016), Lee and Malerba (2017), Binz and Truffer (2017), Primi and Toselli (2020), Lee et al., 2019), Gereffi (2014, 2018), Ahmad and Primi (2017), World Bank (2010, 2017), Corrocher et al. (2018), Ferraz et al. (2019).

Table 2. Inclusion and exclusion criteria of papers and their explanations

I/E	Criteria	Criteria Explanations
Exclusion	Without full-text (WF)	The authors have no access to its full text.
	Non-related (NR)	Its definition about the subject neither related.
	Loosely related (LR)	It does not contain any description related to the subject. It is only used as loose expression cited in the text without being the main focus.
Inclusion	Partially related (PR)	It lists one or more but without detailed description.
	Closely related (CR)	An official document that contains the detailed descriptions of the subject under study.

Source: Secondary Data (2021).

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