Emerging technologies and industrial leadership. A Wikipedia-based strategic analysis of Industry 4.0

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Highlights:

• Emerging technologies can be profiled using Wikipedia pages and their links.

• Graph links between Wikipedia pages represent knowledge structures.

• In the German version of Wikipedia Industry 4.0 has a structurally different clustering.

• The German graph of Industry 4.0 does not include the Cloud computing cluster.

• Germany shapes the 4.0 paradigm as a proprietary, intra-company technology.

摘要

•Emerging technologies can be profiled using Wikipedia pages and their links.•Graph links between Wikipedia pages represent knowledge structures.•In the German version of Wikipedia Industry 4.0 has a structurally different clustering.•The German graph of Industry 4.0 does not include the Cloud computing cluster.•Germany shapes the 4.0 paradigm as a proprietary, intra-company technology.

论文关键词:Emerging technologies,Industry 4.0,Innovation,Technology foresight,Industrial leadership,Germany

论文评审过程:Received 23 January 2020, Revised 20 May 2020, Accepted 7 June 2020, Available online 29 June 2020, Version of Record 12 August 2020.

论文官网地址:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.eswa.2020.113645