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The transition of regional innovation systems to Industry 4.0: the case of Basque Country and Catalonia

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  • Francesco D. Sandulli
  • Elena M. Gimenez-Fernandez
  • Maria Isabel Rodriguez Ferradas

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The work looks at how regions design policies to facilitate the transition of regional innovation systems to Industry 4.0. The research analyses how regional Industry 4.0 policies should take into account the integration of the position of the regional productive system into international supply chains, the games of legitimacy and power of the actors involved in the innovation system, the institutional structures that allow the exchange of knowledge on Industry 4.0. between the agents and the connection between the synthetic knowledge base (engineering driven) and the analytical knowledge base (science driven) of the region. Through a detailed case study of the background, structure and impact of Industry 4.0 in the Spanish regions of the Basque Country and Catalonia, the work demonstrates how it is not possible to define a policy of promoting Industry 4.0 that is generalizable to all regions and how each region will have to adapt the design and implementation of its Industry 4.0 policies to the specific characteristics of its regional innovation system. Therefore the replication of policies from other regions will not be an effective mechanism for promoting Industry 4.0 since the transition to Industry 4.0 is a very regional specific and diverse process.

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  • Francesco D. Sandulli & Elena M. Gimenez-Fernandez & Maria Isabel Rodriguez Ferradas, 2021. "The transition of regional innovation systems to Industry 4.0: the case of Basque Country and Catalonia," European Planning Studies, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 29(9), pages 1622-1636, September.
    • Handle: RePEc:taf:eurpls:v:29:y:2021:i:9:p:1622-1636
    DOI: 10.1080/09654313.2021.1963049
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