Ikram Muhammad, Sayagh Youssef
School of Business Administration, Al Akhawayn University in Ifrane, Avenue Hassan II, P.O. Box 104, 53000 Ifrane, Morocco.
Glob J Flex Syst Manag. 2023;24(2):247-269. doi: 10.1007/s40171-023-00338-z. Epub 2023 Apr 3.
This study aims to investigate the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on the innovation index, Gross Domestic Product (GDP), high technology exports, and human development (HDI) in the world's leading 30 high-tech innovative countries. Using grey relational analysis models, the association between COVID-19 and other economic development indices was investigated. The model selects the country least affected by the pandemic from the top 30 innovative countries through a conservative (maximin) method based on grey association values. Data was collected from World Bank databases and analyzed to compare pre- and post-COVID-19 periods (2019, 2020). The outcomes of this study provide essential recommendations for industries and decision-makers with suitable action plans to preserve economic systems from further harm caused by the global COVID-19 outbreak. The ultimate goal is to boost the innovation index, GDP, high-tech exports, and HDI of high-tech economies and pave the way for a sustainable economy. To the author's knowledge, this is the first study to develop a multidimensional framework to assess COVID-19's impact on the sustainable economy of top 30 high-tech innovative countries, and to conduct a comparative analysis to identify the strong and weak effects of COVID-19 on sustainable economic growth.
本研究旨在调查新冠疫情对全球领先的30个高科技创新国家的创新指数、国内生产总值（GDP）、高科技出口和人类发展指数（HDI）的影响。运用灰色关联分析模型，研究了新冠疫情与其他经济发展指标之间的关联。该模型基于灰色关联值，通过保守（极大极小）方法从30个创新国家中选出受疫情影响最小的国家。数据取自世界银行数据库，并进行分析以比较新冠疫情前后（2019年、2020年）的情况。本研究结果为各行业和决策者提供了重要建议，并给出了合适的行动计划，以保护经济体系免受全球新冠疫情爆发造成的进一步损害。最终目标是提高高科技经济体的创新指数、GDP、高科技出口和HDI，并为可持续经济铺平道路。据作者所知，这是第一项构建多维框架来评估新冠疫情对30个高科技创新国家可持续经济的影响，并进行比较分析以确定新冠疫情对可持续经济增长的强弱影响的研究。
