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Digital technologies have transformed business management practices and adapted them to shorter product lifecycles. As a result, firms are shifting their approach to building new competitive advantage from cost-oriented to entrepreneurial orientation (EO). This study aims to analyze the innovation performance (IP) in the context of EO from a knowledge management perspective. It constructs the functional path of the relationships among EO, knowledge coupling (KC) and IP of Chinese manufacturing firms to achieve business success.

Using data from 157 listed Chinese manufacturing firms from 2012 to 2021, the authors construct a panel data model to test the effect of EO on IP. This study classifies KC into existing knowledge coupling (EKC) and new and existing knowledge coupling (NKC) and analyzes their mediating effects in the above relationships.

This study finds that EO has an insignificant, inverted U-shaped relationship with IP. Both EKC and NKC have a significant, inverted U-shaped relationship with IP; in other words, if EKC and NKC increase, the IP of Chinese manufacturing firms first increases and then decreases, and EKC and NKC have a complete mediating effect on the relationship between EO and IP.

This study provides an in-depth analysis of IP from an EO perspective. The study’s findings enrich and extend the theoretical relationship between EO and IP. The authors also propose a knowledge management perspective for entrepreneurship research. These findings improve the current understanding of the role and function of KC in EO.

This paper aims to present a systematic review of the latest scientific literature, in the context of pediatric orthopedics, on the development by additive manufacturing of anatomical models, orthoses, surgical guides and prostheses and their clinical applications.

Following the current guidelines for systematic reviews, three databases (Elsevier Scopus^®, Clarivate Web of Science^TM and USA National Library of Medicine PubMed^®) were screened using a representative query to find pertinent documents within the timeframe 2016–2023. Among the information, collected across the reviewed documents, the work focused on the 3D printing workflow involving acquisition, elaboration and fabrication stages.

Following the inclusion and exclusion criteria, the authors found 20 studies that fitted the defined criteria. The reviewed studies mostly highlighted the positive impact of additive manufacturing in pediatric orthopedic surgery, particularly in orthotic applications where lightweight, ventilated and cost-effective 3D-printed devices demonstrate efficacy comparable to traditional methods, but also underlined the limitations such as printing errors and high printing times. Among the reviewed studies, material extrusion was the most chosen 3D printing technology to manufacture the typical device, particularly with acrylonitrile butadiene styrene.

To the best of the authors’ knowledge, this is the first systematic review which annotates, from a more engineering point of view, the latest literature on the admittance of the clinical application of additive manufacturing (and its effects) within typical pediatric orthopedic treatments workflows.