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Big Data for Industry 4.0: Challenges and Applications
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Foreword
It is a great pleasure for me to prepare this foreword for Big Data for
Entrepreneurship and Sustainable Development by this distinguished group of
professors from across Europe. As a professor of entrepreneurship for close to four
decades, it is wonderful to see a direct focus on the role that big data plays on sus-
tainable development in the world’s economies, leading to the conclusion that entre-
preneurship is an essential and important element in moving the wheel of economic
growth for countries.
The authors, through extensive research, present several observations, reflections,
and conclusions through a variety of contributions on the role of big data for the field
of emerging entrepreneurship and sustainable development.
The book is based on research, observations, and experiences and provides impor-
tant insights to professors, researchers, and entrepreneurs alike.
I highly recommend adding this book to your collection of important works in the
field of entrepreneurship and sustainable development.
Sincerely,
Timothy S. Mescon
Executive Vice President and Chief Officer,
AACSB International
Europe, Middle East, and Africa
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Preface
Big data plays an essential factor in the wheel of sustainable development in the
world’s economies, so that the entrepreneur is an essential and important element
in moving the wheel of economic growth for countries. Big data has been receiving
great attention in a variety of research and application fields such as entrepreneur-
ship and sustainable development over the last ten years. Many entrepreneurs in
countries receive very large loans, contributing to creating wealth and developing
industrial and economic sectors for countries. Still, they are exposed to problems
that hinder their business development, maybe legal legislation or financial and eco-
nomic policies, or maybe due to their personality. Here we present some reflections
and a collection in our book on big data’s role for this emerging entrepreneurship and
sustainable development.
Editors
Mohammed El Amine Abdelli
Wissem Ajili-Ben Youssef
Uğur Özgöker
Imen Ben Slimene
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Contributors
Mohammed El Amine Abdelli Hamid Doost Mohammadian
University of Western Brittany (UBO), University of Applied Sciences (FHM),
France Germany
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Editor Biographies
Mohammed El Amine Abdelli is a Researcher at the
University of Western Brittany and the Technical University of
Cartagena. He is a member at Western Economics and
Management Laboratory LEGO and an Researcher at the
University of Salamanca (Spain). El Amine’s research inter-
ests focus on big data, entrepreneurship, governance, innova-
tion, and sustainable development. He is an editor of several
books. He was a guest editor of 11 high-quality journals
(Scopus) and has published 15 papers between chapters and
articles. He is an invited speaker in international universities
and an academic member of a committee member of several international. He is an
editorial board member of over 20 indexed journals (Scopus).
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CONTENTS
1.1 Introduction....................................................................................................... 2
1.2 Big Data............................................................................................................. 3
1.2.1 History of Big Data and Background Behind It: Data Era.................... 3
1.2.1.1 First Industrial Revolution......................................................3
1.2.1.2 Second Industrial Revolution..................................................4
1.2.1.3 Third Industrial Revolution.................................................... 4
1.2.1.4 Fourth Industrial Revolution...................................................4
1.2.2 Data Era and Technologies.................................................................... 5
1.2.3 What Can Big Data Solve......................................................................5
1.2.3.1 Availability and Capability..................................................... 6
1.2.4 Successful Stories.................................................................................. 6
1.2.5 Internet of Events................................................................................... 7
1.2.6 The Four Vs and Challenges of Big Data.............................................. 8
1.3 Big Data, Entrepreneurs, and Innovation..........................................................9
1.3.1 Importance of Entrepreneurship and Sustainability.............................. 9
1.3.1.1 Sustainability........................................................................ 10
1.3.1.2 Sustainability and Entrepreneurs.......................................... 11
1.3.2 Importance of Innovation.................................................................... 11
1.3.3 Entrepreneurship, a Path of Innovation in Big Data Era..................... 12
1.3.3.1 The New Entrepreneurial Context........................................ 12
1.3.3.2 Opportunities........................................................................ 13
1.3.3.3 Big Data and Open Innovation............................................. 13
1.3.3.4 The Use of Big Data for Social Innovation........................... 14
1.4 Internet of Things............................................................................................ 15
1.4.1 What is IoT?......................................................................................... 15
1.4.2 Opportunities to Innovate with IoT..................................................... 16
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1.1 INTRODUCTION
An equilibrium between short-term benefits and long-term financial, social, and
environmental sustainability is essential for success in the entrepreneurial path now-
adays. Entrepreneurs need viable initiatives to maintain this balance. The need for
entrepreneurs combining sustainability and business is increasingly growing, mak-
ing them conscious of the UN’s sustainable development goals announced in 2015.
Entrepreneurs’ initiatives need to be sustainable yet stay competitive in a dynamic
environment, hence linking entrepreneurs and sustainability. However, it is not an
easy task; as Kofi Annan once said, “Our biggest challenge in this new century is
to take an idea that sounds abstract sustainable development and turn it into reality
for all the world’s people.” Therefore, the value should be shared between compa-
nies and businesses and the regions these are operating in. To meet the social and
environmental needs cost-effectively, a growing number of initiatives included the
“shared value concept” in their formulation of new products and services through
different strategies. The volume of data received daily has reached up to tens of mil-
lions of records or more. A vast number of data is captured, from music recommen-
dation to Siri conversations and so forth; more and more data is being generated. The
rate of collecting data from a wide variety of sources by modern computer systems
is unimaginable.
This chapter examines entrepreneurship and sustainability concerning the big-
data era. Big data has had a significant impact on society, permitting entrepreneurs
to contribute to social change, participate in sustainability, and innovate. Big data
can improve the world ever since it has been a significant part of a study related to
entrepreneurship, innovation, and sustainability.
The first part will tackle the subject of big data. To better understand this con-
cept, it is essential to study the history and background of these phenomena, the link
between technologies and big data, the Internet of Events, the 4Vs and the challenges
of big data, and how big data can solve problems using successful stories.
The second part will discuss a vital domain, entrepreneurship, covering who
entrepreneurs are, how they are related to sustainable development, innovation, and
how entrepreneurship can be a path for innovation and sustainability in the data era.
The last part introduces and defines the Internet of Things (IoT), a game-changer
of a business’s overall ecosystem transformation according to JOER Grafe, a senior
market analyst at IBM, which enlightens the opportunities to innovate with IoT when
it is used to improve the world.
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1.2.1 History of Big Data and Background Behind It: Data Era
The four industrial revolutions summarize the history and background of big data.
FIGURE 1.1 The Industrial Revolution Source: (see Shank, P., 2025: How Will We Work?
How Will Your Job Change? 2016, ATD)
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and business analytics. Organizations cannot entirely understand how to grasp these
technological innovations and what change is needed, and what business shifts they
require to partake in business and societal transformation. The main goal is to turn
data into value.
Decisions within organizations can be made with different methodologies (see
Figure 1.3). But then again, all these methods revolve around the amount of informa-
tion on hand; when organizations understand the importance and the use of big data,
they can perform better and improve their business.
Exploring and investing in big data initiatives is crucial for businesses. The big
data market has reached $47.5 billion in 2017. The need for significant data skills in
organizations will likely increase in the future; research showed that 89% of employ-
ers believed so [7].
Big data can streamline processes, and many compare it to the fuel of current and
future decision-making in the organization. The comparison is in place since better
decisions can help do better than competitors, encourage innovation, attract and keep
clients, and solve various tasks.
1.2.4 Successful Stories
Data companies have changed the global economy’s face in just a few years through
their data-driven services, such as Facebook, Airbnb, Alibaba, Uber, Tesla, and
Entrepreneurship and Social Innovation 7
many more. Impressive as it may seem, some of these companies do not possess
any of what they provide; Facebook owns no content yet is the world’s most popular
media vendor; Airbnb owns no real estate, but until now is the largest accommoda-
tion provider; Alibaba holds no inventory yet is the most valuable retailer worldwide;
and Uber owns no vehicles, but so far is the largest taxi/shared ride company.
Netflix is considered a good example to present a successful story for big data and
data science. According to [8], Netflix has messed up the prevailing marketplaces
and created cash streams at other similar businesses’ expenditure. The Netflix busi-
ness model depends on customer subscription, where data scientists can build mod-
els to envisage the “perfect situation” in which customers can receive suggestions of
programs they will enjoy. This is all due to different data points such as user gender
and age, time spent selecting movies, time, and date each content was watched, and
how often a movie or program is paused and resumed.
To formulate the list of suggestions, data scientists and engineers refer every user
to three or five clusters among more than 1300 collections based on their viewing
preferences. Data science techniques create specific category suggestions; every user
possesses different cover images for the same show. Netflix builds cover images
depending on the colors and styles of effective, parallel-tagged programs to help
draw new viewers’ attention. It also experiments with different versions of the cover
images to validate which ones are more effective.
Netflix could surpass the TV industry by using data science to provide users with
personalized content. Similar businesses exist and have similarly succeeded in many
fields.
Uber’s success is directly linked to the use of big data; its entire business model
highly depends on crowdsourcing, a big data principle. Uber is a smartphone
application-based taxi reservation service that fixes passengers with drivers. When a
user asks for a ride, Uber matches the passenger with the appropriate driver, know-
ing that it holds a vast database for drivers in the cities and countries it operates in.
GPS, street data, the company’s set of rules, and the journey’s time are all included
in calculating fares.
1.2.5 Internet of Events
As mentioned before, data growth has been incredible; from the time civilization
originated and until today, humankind has generated up to five exabytes of data,
speeding up the pace of producing five exabytes every two days (Eric Schmidt,
Executive Chair Google). What data is this, and what events are being generated?
Internet of Events is included in our daily activity, where we generate data through
four different sources.
Internet of Content, including big data, such as Wikipedia and Google, is the first
source of event data. The Internet of People, including any social events, such as
Twitter and Facebook, is listed as the second source. Two thousand sixteen statistics3
showed that an average of 600 million tweets were posted on Twitter daily, 1.6 bil-
lion active operators on Facebook created up to 600 terabytes of inbound data, and
52 million photos were uploaded on Instagram per day.
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The third source of event data is the Internet of Things, referring to devices gen-
erating a vast quantity of data when connected to the Internet. The fourth and last
source is the Internet of Places.
An immense number of data is being collected from our daily lives, and the
growth of this amount is unbelievable. However, the challenge here is not how to
generate any additional data; it produces real value from such collected data [9].
• Variety: This dimension demonstrates how data can be shared and kept
in different forms, such as photos, videos, texts, or links posted on social
media.
• Veracity: This dimension refers to uncertainty, which is a challenge for big
data. Experience has clarified that it is not entirely reliable that what has
been recorded is completely precise. Most data sources are noisy, partly
untrustworthy, and some are even deceiving.
Challenges of Big Data: Complexity of data and difficulties in the process challenges
that big data face in its analysis processes can be linked to the data, framework,
cycle, or results.
The Complexity of Reality: The first challenge that big data faces start with any
understanding of reality. The assortment of raw data must be first understood and
transformed into meaningful information, using adequate tools to deal with this raw
data. It is essential to be attentive to this complexity to avoid such challenges.
Cognitive Bias: The second challenge reveals that data analysis is without doubt
subject to observing bias where reality will be interpreted and understood based on
the observer’s sensitivity or subjectivity.
Precision, wholeness, individuality, accessibility over time, and reliability of the
data itself make up the third challenge for big data relating to its quantity of the data.
prosperity and creating new jobs. It is widely known that entrepreneurs consider
themselves as someone with an idea and not as a businessperson. Entrepreneurs not
only take their concept, nourish it, and perturb the surrounding ecosystem, but also
renew it.
Social environmental [17] and sustainable entrepreneurship [18] focus openly on
social, economic, and ecological outcomes. Creating sustainable innovation requires
repeatable, sustainable, and transferable plans that can share the way to drive this
innovation.
The sustainable development goals or the SDGs [19] are directly aimed at con-
tributing to fulfilling human rights to an unlimited extent, covering poverty, hunger,
health, gender, parity, education, global warming, environment, social justice and
other countless social and economic issues that define the world wide’s main con-
cerns for improvements towards a viable society.
1.3.1.1 Sustainability
Sustainable development has been a shared-out concept, which points out several
social revelations since the 1992 Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro and Agenda 21.
Visions related to ideas about fairness, liberty, independence, and accountabil-
ity look to the future. Governments, non-governmental organizations, companies,
entrepreneurs, and innovators have all understood the relevance of sustainabil-
ity. The Brundtland Commission (World Commission on Environment and
Development [WCED], 198) defined sustainable development as “Development that
meets the needs of the present without compromising future generations’ ability to
meet their own needs.” An official United Nations report UNCHS of 1966 stated
that it is essential to have strategies that display sustainable development founda-
tions by achieving social equity, social integration, and social stability. Without a
doubt, our main concern, backed by the environmental movements, became the
first drive of the debate on sustainability and the necessary power behind it for
decades [20].
The United Nations has given scope for its 193 member countries to express
their views on the world’s challenges and a possibility to find an area of agreement
between communities and governments.4 Peace, human rights, sustainable develop-
ment, and health emergencies were the main goals to reach. The essential purpose of
Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) is to achieve a better future for all genera-
tions. The SDGs focus on all the current global social, economic, environmental,
and governmental challenges.
Sustainable development links social, economic, and environmental dimensions:
1.3.2 Importance of Innovation
Innovation can mean developing new solutions or new ways of performing things
that drive differentiation and create measurable values. The UK government defined
innovation as “the successful exploitation of new ideas or ones that are adopted from
other sectors or organizations.” The Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC)
links innovation in business models and successfully introduces new products, ser-
vices, and processes. Nohria and Gulati [22] see that to trade, improve, and exploit
something of value, it is necessary to link creativity and innovation in production.
When a manager of any unit recognizes a new strategy, structure, technique, method,
product, or market opening, it is called innovation, according to [23].
The relationship between entrepreneurship and innovation starts with an idea
from an insight that the entrepreneur may have, or the marketplace may need.
Entrepreneurs have the mission to pursue opportunities based on innovation and the
potential of an idea to turn into a design. Inventions are also related to innovation.
Entrepreneurship is the act of taking these ideas, innovations, or inventions and turn-
ing them into new businesses.
Massive changes in technology, data, and globalization [24] all lead to a com-
petitive global economy. The economic impact of innovation on nations, regions,
industries, and businesses is not ignored. Design can be used to thrive an intelligent
12 Big Data for Entrepreneurship and Sustainable Development
economy, overcome the economic crisis, increase employment, and perform social
governance. It is also a fundamental engine for internationalization, creating the
incentives for more intense and efficient innovative efforts for entrepreneurs; innova-
tion is a tool to build new ideas that can be transformed into new business opportuni-
ties. Entrepreneurs are essential in all innovation studies; [25] was the first to link
innovation and entrepreneurship. The contribution of technological innovation to the
economy is significant since it helps create economic growth and wealth and exploit
business opportunities.
Without a doubt, technological innovation can impact businesses; diminutive
product life cycles and more prompt aging products resulted from design and prog-
ress in information technology. Offering new distinguished structures can help firms
defend limits due to product innovations, and manufacturing more proficiently is due
to process innovations. Technological innovation is brought to be a vital driver of
competitive achievements in many industries.
There is a well-established theoretical and empirical assumption of a negative
association between firm size and the level of technological extensiveness of innova-
tion. However, smaller firms came out to carry more sustainable improving designs
than any other larger firm. Therefore, addressing it from small- and medium-sized
firms is crucial [26].
this further radicalization; marketing was replaced by growth hacking within the
startup world.
The new entrepreneurial context sees the customer as a priority; all startups that
can contact the customer first, potentially and make him a priority, have a dominant
position in the market. This new approach gives them the ability to dictate their
terms to all players in the value stream and brings value to the customer.
1.3.3.2 Opportunities
Entrepreneurship is at an unusual phase; our daily lives are connected to cell
phones, computers, and networks, making it easier for entrepreneurs to reach peo-
ple. Entrepreneurship is becoming a value shared by many people. Big data opens
various entrepreneurship opportunities and has been a remarkable area of study for
entrepreneurship and innovation.
A live example, found in all our regular days, where innovation startles people,
would be the story behind the chatting application, WhatsApp. Brian Acton, and Jan
Koum, who used to work at Yahoo!, came up in 2009 with the idea of WhatsApp,
which fascinated a generous amount of users around the world. Due to its easy access
and use for live chat conversations, Acton and Koum earned millions of dollars
quickly, without even bothering to advertise. iPhone first-time users were charged
for installation, while Android users were charged once per year for this highly suc-
cessful application.
The big data era and the digital era have permitted the trading of data,
ideas, services, and profits, creating multiple prospects to open innovation.
Citizen science results from the big data propagation where even citizens
may develop new ideas and products.
1.5 CONCLUSION
Big data and analytics have been the object of genuine and heated debate over the
last few years; almost any search engine provides over 3 million results for one’s
inquiry.
To better pinpoint high-potential personnel, develop team efficiency [39], dimin-
ish turnover [40], and increase creativity leading to success [41, 42], organizations
18 Big Data for Entrepreneurship and Sustainable Development
need to proceed with creating big data using information. Big data generates new
openings that should be considered and captured by governments and establishments
around the world [43].
Big data, whose main goal and purpose are to guarantee sustainability and assist
with innovation, has changed how we perceive the world. Being closely connected
to innovation, entrepreneurs are considered the engine for economic growth and
social change. In an ever-changing world, entrepreneurs are essential; they are pre-
sented with both opportunities and challenges that may seem overwhelming and too
complicated to solve, but have the role and responsibility to positively impact and
contribute with innovative solutions, especially in the big data era.
NOTES
1. The first modern steam engine’s prototype was designed by Thomas Newcomen.
2. Constable, 2003
3. http://www.internetlivestats.com/
4. The most recent iteration of the global sustainable development agenda.
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2 Big Data for
Entrepreneurship
Towards CSR and
Sustainable Development
Hamid Doost Mohammadian
University of Applied Sciences (FHM), Germany
Fatemeh Rezaie
Lyon University and IMI, France -Iran
CONTENTS
2.1 Introduction..................................................................................................... 22
2.2 Literature Review............................................................................................ 23
2.2.1 Sustainable Development..................................................................... 23
2.2.2 CSR......................................................................................................24
2.2.3 Entrepreneurship..................................................................................25
2.2.4 High Technologies...............................................................................26
2.2.5 Digitalization.......................................................................................28
2.2.6 Ubiquitous............................................................................................ 30
2.2.7 Technologies Based on Internet and Information................................ 31
2.2.8 Industry 4.0.......................................................................................... 31
2.2.9 Society 5.0........................................................................................... 32
2.2.9.1 Big Data................................................................................ 33
2.3 Methodology.................................................................................................... 33
2.4 Discussion........................................................................................................ 35
2.4.1 Sustainable Development and Future of the World............................. 35
2.4.2 Sustainable Economy Towards Sustainable Development.................. 38
2.4.3 Big Data and Sustainable Economy.................................................... 42
2.5 Conclusion and Future Scenario...................................................................... 43
2.5.1 Conclusion........................................................................................... 43
2.5.2 Future Scenarios.................................................................................. 45
References................................................................................................................. 45
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22 Big Data for Entrepreneurship and Sustainable Development
2.1 INTRODUCTION
These days, the world faces global and urbanization challenges, including poverty,
slums, unemployment, economic instability and economic problems, climate change,
environmental challenges, insecurity, social challenges, and health diseases and chal-
lenges. These challenges are significant threats to the future of the world and human-
ity. It is necessary to tackle them to preserve the world, nature, and environment for
future generations and improve livability and life in the present. Sustainable develop-
ment could be applied to deal with global challenges and achieve a better quality of
life and citizens’ livability. Sustainable development is declared as a tool that makes
the world able to meet and supply the present’s needs besides preserving the environ-
ment for future generations to meet their needs by the Brundtland Commission.
Generally, a sustainable economy is an indicator required to manage sustainable
development. Businesses and entrepreneurship economic are the backbone of each
country by their benefits, such as creating new jobs and employment opportunities,
sustainable industrialization, reducing economic challenges, and creating inclusive
and sustainable economic development and enhancement. Sustainable businesses are
strategies to develop sustainable development to deal with global challenges, reduce
impacts of these challenges, and design livable, sustainable urban settings where
high quality of life is available. Creating sustainable and modern businesses aligned
with current and growing demands are required to develop economic sustainability.
In recent decades, technologies based on the internet and information like IT,
ICT, IoE, IoT, digitalization, ubiquitous and high technologies play significant roles
in distributed energy systems to increase energy systems’ efficiency and improve
energy infrastructure to decrease wastage. It can also be extended to minor lev-
els, manufacturing, and operation units. Organizations founded on applying high
technologies can make the procedure faster, safer, with higher productivity towards
sustainable and productive businesses. These technologies could influence interac-
tions and create modern and agile companies that can supply modern and growing
sustainable development needs.
One of the leading technologies that businesses could apply to create sustainable,
agile, and modern companies is big data. This technology is about collecting data
sources, technologies, and methodologies used to develop data designed to deal with
challenges and problems that make business barriers.
Generally, technologies and entrepreneurship play significant roles in business
success and sustainability. It is vital to apply such technologies and improve them
to create modern businesses. Notably, organizations founded on technology like IoE
and big data could enable companies aligned with growing urbanization and sup-
plied current needs to succeed. So, businesses based on big data and high technolo-
gies are required to achieve sustainable development.
This study aims to discover how technologies and big data could be applied as a
tool to achieve sustainable development. To complete the main aim of the research,
three sub-goals are recognized. The first sub-goal is to realize the importance of
applying high technologies and modern ones like big data for businesses success.
The importance of sustainable development for the future of the world is the second
subgoal. The study’s final aim is to find out how modern and sustainable businesses
could deal with global challenges and develop sustainability.
Big Data for Entrepreneurship 23
2.2.1 Sustainable Development
Carlowitz declared sustainable as a new approach for the first time in 1713. In the
first half of the eighteenth century, the idea of sustainable revenue was introduced
in Denmark, Norway, Russia, and France, and finally sustainability was officially
stated in the 1970s [1, 2].
For the first time, the idea of sustainable development was mentioned in the World
Conservation Strategy drafted by the United Nations Environment Program (UNEP)
and the International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN) in 1980. The
UN’s World Commission on Environment and Development in 1987 renewed the call
for sustainable development. Agenda 21, held in 1995, was presented as concerned
with access to land, security of land tenure, tenants’ rights, liberalized credit poli-
cies, and low-cost building material programs for “sustainable” urban living for the
homeless the urban poor [3]. Agenda 21 was reported that “Sustainable Development
is a multidimensional undertaking to achieve a higher quality of life for all people.
Economic development, social development and environmental protection are inter-
dependent and mutually reinforcing components of sustainable development.” [4]
Based on UN research, the main goals of sustainable development are:
2.2.2 CSR
Social responsibility is popular as corporate social responsibility, corporate citizen-
ship, or corporate sustainability presents businesses’ commitment to the environ-
ment and social.
Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) is about doing business in a way that
accounts for its social and environmental effects [8]. CSR is an approach that com-
panies have a responsibility to society, the environment, and a broader set of stake-
holders beyond its shareholders [9].
Social responsibility is not a novel idea. For the first time, in 1916, Clark said:
“if men handle the known result of their actions, business responsibilities must
include the known consequences of business dealings, whether or not these have
been recognized by law [10].” But in 1953 Bowen presented officially the con-
cept of corporate social responsibility in his book named Social Responsibility of
Business Executive [11]. Generally, CSR means that corporation and businesses,
Big Data for Entrepreneurship 25
in general, should also focus on societal concerns and needs, and be responsible
to the society in which they operate as well as the environment while working on
their primary goals: efficiency, productivity, and maximizing their shareholders’
profit [12].
The business has responsibility for its impacts and its influences on the envi-
ronment, consumers, employees, communities, stakeholders, and all other society
members [13].
Based on Wayne Visser’s concept, Corporate Social Responsibility is the clas-
sic and traditional idea that he introduced as CSR 1.0. He also presented a new
conception, CSR 2.0, which could be introduced as Corporate Sustainability and
Responsibility. In this era that the world confronted with urbanization and global
challenges such as climate change, poverty and unemployment, environmental chal-
lenges, insecurity, social instability, and so on, it is vital to pursue CSR 2.0. CSR 1.0
makes business fall behind and created problems for being socially responsible and
sustainable these days, and CSR 2.0 could be aligned with urbanization and global
challenges [14, 15].
Social responsibility would help companies and businesses reduce their costs and
risks, maximize profits, evaluate reputation and legitimacy, make synergistic value,
and make social and environmental sustainability. Therefore, CSR’s business strat-
egy could help companies to be aligned with social and environmental performance.
Generally, SCR helps companies in progressing sustainability and creating sus-
tainable development [16].
2.2.3 Entrepreneurship
Entrepreneurship is concerned with an activity involving the analysis, revelation,
evaluation, and applying of opportunities to present novel tools, techniques, services,
performances, and so on, via organizing efforts that previously had not existed.
Innovation, opportunity recognition, process, and growth in a business are the main
entrepreneurship features [17].
Enterprise concept is the fundamental idea behind a business. It is a factor required
for business growth, development, and success. Enterprise concept is necessary to
develop business ideas to make a business plan and launch a firm [18].
Entrepreneurship could be applied as a creative and innovative path to evaluate
economic systems. Entrepreneurship could be developed through innovation, and
also be improved by innovative techniques and tools. There is a relation between
entrepreneurship and innovation by which to create new businesses to create eco-
nomic growth opportunities [19].
Generally, entrepreneurship influences the economy at three levels: at the aggre-
gate level, at the consumer level, and at the firm level. At the first level, innovative
entrepreneurship makes a profit for the economy by making job opportunities, evalu-
ating income, and creating a proper infrastructure for new investments. It produces
value for consumers such as the improved products or services at lower costs at the
consumer level. In the last group, entrepreneurship makes organizations compete
with other ones which are not innovators by the advantages of innovation and entre-
preneurship [20, 21].
26 Big Data for Entrepreneurship and Sustainable Development
• The concerned concept machines that can enhance and do some capabili-
ties and performances by human intelligence.
• The development of human intelligence via applying computers and
mechanical tools.
• The study of techniques to utilize computers and tools more effectively.
Generally, all these definitions focus on thinking like humans, acting like humans,
reasoning, and acting rationally. In other words, AI is about fields founded on these
four categories.
An AI system is a machine-based system that can do human-defined objectives
like making predictions, recommendations, or decisions that impact our virtual
environments. Sensors, operational logic, and actuators are the main elements of AI.
These days, AI is used in different industries and business domain, ranging
from healthcare, finance, manufacturing, education, etc. Diagnosing diseases, edu-
cation, approaching document for lawyers and others, manufacturing, agriculture,
transportation, financial systems, and eventually living will be improved and easier
through AI and machine learning. Besides, AI is a tool applied in the energy sec-
tor to improve energy saving and energy efficiency through smart grids, electricity
trading, power consumption, etc. Fundamentally, AI could transform economies,
achieve productivity gains, improve efficiency, and lower costs. So, it could influence
enhancing livability and quality of human life [23, 24 and 25].
Machine learning is another type of high technology that has been one of the
main pillars of information technology and plays important roles in daily human life.
Machine learning (ML) is about science that makes computers learn to solve
problems instead of being human programmed. In other words, ML is about the
ability of a machine to understand and improve its performances and processes by
itself. Data plays an essential role in machine learning. Besides, a learning algorithm
applies to learn science, knowledge, and properties through the data. Machine learn-
ing demonstrates methods that can learn patterns in existing data, thus generating
analytical models that can be utilized inside larger IT artifacts.
Big Data for Entrepreneurship 27
Additionally, big data is a kind of high technology applied in different fields, espe-
cially in machine learning, which is declared entirely in a future context.
High technologies make a proper context for developing technologies based on
the internet and digitalization, and they are ubiquitous in the Western and Eastern
world as tools to build sustainability.
2.2.5 Digitalization
Digitalization has been one of the issues that could influence changing society, life,
and businesses in the present and near future. We live in an era where digitalization
could be used as a technique that would change how we live and could develop sus-
tainability. Digitalization has emerged since the end of the twentieth century. These
days are a controversial issue to make the world a better place for living through
changing social, economic, and environment [34, 35].
Digitalization focuses on applying connectivity and networking of digital tech-
nologies to improve businesses, services, manufacturing, trade between people, and
eventually life. It reflects the adoption of digital technologies in business and society
and the associated changes in the connectivity of individuals, organizations, and
objects [34]. When we talk about digitalization, three areas are concerned:
1. Digitization: where the analog items are transformed into digital ones (i.e.,
electronic version of paper documents)
2. Digitalization: where digital technologies apply to alter business models,
form revenue, enhance business and value-producing opportunities
3. Digital transformation: where digital technologies are utilized to transform
old aspects into modern ones [36]
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