“…As shown in Table 1, the first peer-reviewed articles about DIHs related to the fields of business, management, economics and social sciences, were published in 2020. Extant studies focused on the intermediary role of exemplary DIHs and on the transfer of knowledge between stakeholders (Crupi et al, 2020;Hervas-Oliver et al, 2021;Lepore et al, 2023), on giving access to I.40 technologies (Dyba et al, 2022;Gladysz et al, 2023), on addressing regional needs for innovation (Aragonés et al, 2020;Hervas-Oliver et al, 2021) and on proposing models and solutions for DIHs (Charvát et al, 2022;Sassanelli & Terzi, 2022a, 2022bFeltus et al, 2023). To analyse the value generated by DIHs, Sassanelli and Terzi (2022a) proposed the Value Proposition Canvas to a network surrounding the hub, including providers, users, academic and technology organizations.…”