The Journal of Engineering Strategy and Innovation maintains a progressive open-access publishing framework structure. We believe that scientific advancements and empirical research data outputs should be freely accessible to the global technological community.

1. Author Rights

Authors retain copyright while granting Journal of Engineering Strategy and Innovation a non-exclusive license to publish, archive, index, and distribute the accepted manuscript.

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2. User Rights

Under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License, the public and users are permitted to:

• Share: Copy and redistribute the material in any medium or format.

The publisher cannot revoke these freedoms as long as you follow the license terms under the following conditions:

• Attribution: You must give appropriate credit, provide a link to the license, and indicate if changes were made.
• NonCommercial: You may not use the material for commercial purposes.
• NoDerivatives: If you remix, transform, or build upon the material, you may not distribute the modified material.

3. Self-Archiving Policy

Journal of Engineering Strategy and Innovation supports corresponding authors participating in institutional repository storage loops. Authors are permitted to deposit the final published production PDF (Publisher's Version) inside university network registries or personal sites immediately upon publication for non-commercial sharing, provided that no modifications or derivative works are created from it.

4. Third-Party Content

Third-party images, figures, tables, logos, or multimedia components embedded within published articles may not be covered under the primary Creative Commons License. It remains the sole responsibility of users or secondary publishers to re-verify compliance parameters or request explicit clearances from the original copyright holders prior to redistribution.

5. Digital Object Identifiers

If assigned, a Digital Object Identifier (DOI) will remain bound to the published resource asset record permanently. Any permitted non-commercial redistribution must continuously maintain the canonical target strings pointing back to the primary publication record ledger inside the Journal of Engineering Strategy and Innovation infrastructure channels.

6. Proper Attribution Example

When sharing or referencing an article, please maintain the following professional scholarly citation framework profile layout:

* If no DOI has been assigned, the article URL may be used.