This book is an essential guide for academics, industry leaders, policy makers to navigate the future where smart technologies like artificial intelligence, machine learning, blockchain, IoT and beyond reshape the global economic landscape.

1. Realization of technology transfer in the global value chain and sustainable economy: a bibliometric analysis, 2. Global value chain to smart global value chain: a synthesis of best practices, 3. Smart future innovations in the global value chain, 4. The game-changing role of the Internet of Things (IoT) in the global value chain (GVC) in India, 5. An overview of advanced networking technologies and the global value chain, 6. BSMQSC: design of an efficient blockchain-based security model for QoS-aware sustainable IoT smart city networks, 7. Service models for Internet of Things, global value chains, and mobile cloud computing, 8. Overview of the global value chain and the effectiveness of artificial intelligence (AI) techniques in reducing cybersecurity risks, 9. Blockchain technology, computer network operations, and global value chains together make up “cybersecurity”, 10. A study of health-care data security in smart cities and the global value chain using AI and blockchain, 11. Smart global value chain: applications across various sectors, 12. Smart global value chains in the manufacturing industry, 13. Decentralized finance: a catalyst for smart global value chains in future financial ecosystems, 14. Emerging technologies in global supply chain management (GSCM) using an automated e-audit system, 15. Decentralized finance and technology readiness: unleashing the future of financial innovation, 16. Entrepreneurship development within the smart global value chain and the performance of small- and medium-scale enterprises: micro-level evidence from Nigeria, 17. Future uses of AI and blockchain technology in the global value chain and cybersecurity