Böcker i SpringerBriefs in Entrepreneurship and Innovation-serien

This volume examines the involvement of minority- or women-owned businesses in technology-based research, with particular focus on the differences in research outcomes in achieving commercialization.

Using the automotive, healthcare and telecommunication industries as case studies, the authors create the value roadmap using five factors: market drivers, product features, technology features, enablers and resources.

The concept of industry 4.0 is spreading worldwide and readiness models exist to determine organizational or national maturity. This book identifies the regional aspect of industry 4.0 and provides a regional (NUTS 2 classified) industry 4.0 indicator system model that is based on open data sources.