Ricerc@Sapienza

Dealing with the emerging 4th industrial revolution, Industry 4.0., the project aims:
-to critically identify and analyze the Industry 4.0 revolution and its challenges;
-to develop and diffuse among scholars and decision-makers useful frameworks to lead Industry 4.0;
-to address and to promote the huge potential provided by the Industry 4.0 technologies towards a more sustainable production (i.e. the building, diffusion and use of performance indicators).
This rising revolution and its associated key General Purposes Technologies (GPTs) (cloud-based design, Mobile Devices, Big Data, smart manufacturing systems, IoT, IIoT, 3D printing) are currently being driven by disruptive innovation that promises to bring countless new value creation opportunities across all major market sectors.
Industry 4.0 seems to dictate the end of consolidated models (mental, educational, managerial etc.); therefore it asks for new lenses and interpretative paradigms enabling old and new actors to succeed in such magmatic landscape. However, there are few standards and processes designed to assist each entity to speak a common language and think systemically. Originally, the research conceives and analyses the rise of Industry 4.0 as a process of new-industrialization fostered by GPTs.
The research moves from an interdisciplinary conceptual lens rooted in the following frameworks: the Kondratiev long waves; the Italian School of Cambridge; the Public Choice perspective; the New Theory of Growth and the recombining view of the innovation.
The research is based on both social sciences methodologies (e.g. "face to face" interviews, focus group, etc) and biological/chemical sciences methods (performance indicators to be tested in the laboratory). Research on field will be conducted on a sample of ca. 130 European organizations (firms, research centers, high tech incubators).
A comprehensive model on the value co-creation in Industry 4.0 will be developed and fully debated.