xiv Preface Readers of this book should be advised from the beginning that the book in their hands is important for at least two reasons. The first is that it contains sixteen good chapters published in the first volume of the International Journal of Innovation in the Digital Economy, and this of course could be a very good and even scientific reason for any interested reader to get inside the content. The second, which is some- thing that perhaps doesn't belong here, is that this book is a complex of feelings, hopes, challenges and will power, all of these coming from the heart of a young and very determined team that worked hard, together with the editors of the journal, to promote ideas, beliefs, and principles; to raise questions and to give answers; to address problems and to promote solutions. This editorial preface is, above all, about people and then about information, as the scholars who contributed in the first instance to the Interna- tional Journal of Innovation in the Digital Economy were specialists concerned with the impact of their