Industry 4.0 as policy-driven discourse to institutionalize innovation systems in manufacturing
By Georg Reischauer. Technological forecasting & social change, 2018
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We are witnessing an increasing adoption of digital technologies in manufacturing industries around the globe. This trend is often debated under the label Industry 4.0. A key claim put forward in these debates is that Industry 4.0 represents a revolution that will reshape manufacturing industries akin to previous industrial revolutions. Despite the popularity of this claim, it provides little help to clarify the identity of Industry 4.0. Such a clarification is however much needed given the worldwide proliferation of digital technologies in manufacturing industries. I address this gap by arguing to view Industry 4.0 as policy-driven innovation discourse in manufacturing industries that aims to institutionalize innovation systems that encompass business, academia, and politics. This clarification of the identity of Industry 4.0 adds to a better understanding of the relationship between manufacturing and politics as well as technological change in manufacturing.
Subfields: Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering, Management of Technology and Innovation, Sociology and Political Science
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Citations in the corpus
- Industry 4.0: A Bibliometric Review of Its Managerial Intellectual Structure and Potential Evolution in the Service Industries (2019, background): “This also shows the pivotal role played by national governments in the launch and promotion of the industry 4.0 initiative (Kim, 2018; Reischauer, 2018) and leads to the question whether service industries will become the next application context and setting of the 4th Industrial Revolution.”