Strategies and practices for inclusive manufacturing: twenty-first-century sustainable manufacturing competitiveness

This editorial introduces the purpose of the special issue with the summary of three perspectives of innovations in inclusive manufacturing such as people-oriented, environmental oriented and technology-oriented innovations. The editorial summarises the accepted papers based on the three perspectives of inclusive manufacturing innovation classification. The inclusive manufacturing way forward is discussed in the future research directions section. Overall this call didn’t receive many people-oriented innovation submissions. However, there are a decent amount of work in environmental and technology-oriented innovations. Hopefully, this editorial piece will draw attention towards people-oriented innovation from the manufacturing researchers in the future.