The study explores how international enterprises navigate expansion in other markets simultaneously contributing to the regional development. Such international enterprises use digital platforms and disruptive technologies to transform their business models. Digital platform adoption and technological integration accelerate internationalization efforts and facilitate regional economic growth. A new theoretical framework is built upon international entrepreneurship orientation and network capability, inductively evaluating a group of international enterprises located in the United Kingdom and Italy. This framework offers new insights and trends based on our emerging concepts such as 1. International attitude, cultural value and global orientation; 2. Digital business model driven towards internationalization; 3. Network and digital ecosystem integration, and 4. Multiplier effects for Regional Growth. Entrepreneurs and managers should strongly consider the development of these new concepts in expanding their business in global market. This also facilitated by the adoption of digital platforms that request an entrepreneurial orientation to handle a greater market uncertainty and diversity. being more digital.

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