The four smarts of Industry 4.0: Evolution of ten years of research and future perspectives

B Meindl, NF Ayala, J Mendonça, AG Frank - … Forecasting and Social …, 2021 - Elsevier
The Industry 4.0 literature has exponentially grown in the past decade. We aim to
understand how this literature has evolved and propose future research opportunities. We …

Servitization innovation: a systematic review, integrative framework, and future research directions

Y **ng, Y Liu, P Davies - Technovation, 2023 - Elsevier
Servitization has emerged as an important research topic in the fields of innovation and
technology management that connects products and services with the purpose of enhancing …

Industry 4.0 innovation ecosystems: An evolutionary perspective on value cocreation

GB Benitez, NF Ayala, AG Frank - International Journal of Production …, 2020 - Elsevier
Industry 4.0 considers complex interrelated IoT-based technologies for the provision of
digital solutions. Such a complexity demands a vast set of capabilities that are hard to be …

Servitization and Industry 4.0 convergence in the digital transformation of product firms: A business model innovation perspective

AG Frank, GHS Mendes, NF Ayala, A Ghezzi - … Forecasting and Social …, 2019 - Elsevier
Servitization and Industry 4.0 are considered two of the most recent trends transforming
industrial companies. Servitization is mainly focused on adding value to the customer …

The expected contribution of Industry 4.0 technologies for industrial performance

LS Dalenogare, GB Benitez, NF Ayala… - International Journal of …, 2018 - Elsevier
Industry 4.0 is considered a new industrial stage in which vertical and horizontal
manufacturing processes integration and product connectivity can help companies to …

Industry 4.0 technologies: Implementation patterns in manufacturing companies

AG Frank, LS Dalenogare, NF Ayala - International journal of production …, 2019 - Elsevier
Industry 4.0 has been considered a new industrial stage in which several emerging
technologies are converging to provide digital solutions. However, there is a lack of …

External knowledge search, opportunity recognition and industry 4.0 adoption in SMEs

R Ricci, D Battaglia, P Neirotti - International Journal of Production …, 2021 - Elsevier
Technologies related to Industry 4.0 require Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) to
understand their potential applications before they are adopted. In this paper, we test …

Digital servitization and business model innovation in SMEs: A model to escape from market disruption

S Lamperti, A Cavallo… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The progress and the adoption of digital technologies can rapidly make products, processes,
and business models obsolete, until disrupting entire markets. In this context, small–medium …

When technologies become Industry 4.0 platforms: Defining the role of digital technologies through a boundary-spanning perspective

GB Benitez, A Ghezzi, AG Frank - International Journal of Production …, 2023 - Elsevier
The implementation of Industry 4.0 is usually built around core technologies that integrate
different complementary hardware and software to coordinate activities within and across …

How do startups manage external resources in innovation ecosystems? A resource perspective of startups' lifecycle

A Marcon, JLD Ribeiro - Technological Forecasting and Social Change, 2021 - Elsevier
Innovation requires a multitude of resources that are hard to find within a single firm,
especially for startups that are resource-constrained young ventures. To overcome such …