Beyond Intelligent Systems: Navigating the Power of the Agentic Artificial Intelligence for Driving Innovation

This book maps the latest research on Agentic AI as a catalyst for innovation across sectors healthcare, energy, education, finance, public services, and more. Through comparative case studies and diverse analytical approaches, the papers show how autonomous, goal-directed AI systems reconfigure value creation, decision processes, and business models. This book is designed for scholars and postgraduate students, offering clear research agendas, replicable methods, and theory-led frameworks to investigate capability building, governance, and responsible scaling of Agentic AI. It also identifies high-potential frontiers human-in-the-loop innovation, data governance for autonomy, sustainable finance models, and impact evaluation to guide rigorous, opportunity-driven future research

1. Beyond Intelligent Systems: Defining Agentic AI and Its Power to Reshape Innovation, Governance, Sustainability, and Trust. - 2. The Power of Agentic Artificial Intelligence in Modern Product Recommendations and Advertising. - 3. Digital Engagement in Education: An Analysis of Web 2. 0 Tools and Collaborative Learning Platforms. - 4. Computational Storytelling Robot for Creative Thinking in EFL Writing: A Human-Robot Creative Interaction (HRCI) Approach. - 5. Measuring the attitudes of IT Lecturers at the University of Technology and Applied Sciences toward the use of AI in teaching and Learning. - 6. Catalyzing AI-Assisted Social Cognitive Models With Sociology and Cybersocialization in Political Education. - 7. Research hotspots and Trends of R& D investment on innovation performance: A systematic literature review. - 8. Lightweight Multi-ML-Based Fingerprint Spoof Detection Framework for Secure Digital Banking Applications with VGG16-Based Feature Extraction. - 9. Reconfiguring Budgets for Innovation: How Performance-Based Budgeting Drives Financial Success through Product and Process Innovation Capabilities. - 10. Agentic AI and the Street Level: How Autonomous Systems Will Reshape Frontline Bureaucracy. - 11. Mapping Two Decades of Financial Inclusion Research: A Bibliometric Review Based on the ABDC-Ranked Journals. - 12. The Impact of the Interaction Between Knowledge Workers and Digital Transformation on the Adoption of Artificial Intelligence A Study on the Hospitals of the Medical City Directorate Baghdad. - 13. AI-Driven E-Marketing and Tourist Behavior: Stimulating Smart Tourism Development in Iraq. - 14. Perceived Relative Advantage as a Driver of AI-Enabled Omnichannel Marketing Adoption. - 15. Leveraging Artificial Intelligence to enhance Tourist Experience at Cultural-Heritage and Historic Sites in Iraq. - 16. The Impact of Artificial Intelligence on Consumer Behaviour: Addressing Ethical Concerns in Third World Countries. - 17. Artificial intelligence and its relationship to digital leadership 4. 0 in higher education institutions: A systematic literature review. - 18. Quanto-CDS premiums in the Eurozone: Uncovering Redenomination and Default Risk through CR and CR14 Contracts. - 19. Evaluating Service Quality, Patient Satisfaction, and Technological Integration in Asian Healthcare: A Dual-Database Analysis of Trends and Insights. - 20. Agentic AI and Political Systems: How Autonomous Tools Rewire Power, Procedure, and the Public Sphere.