| Abstract [eng] |
This master thesis evaluates the impact of Industry 4.0 on innovation. The aim of the research is to evaluate the impact of Industry 4.0 on innovation and create a decision tree as a framework for the governments while prioritizing the directions in the policy/strategic documents. The tasks are as follows: 1.Analysis of the literature review associated with Industry 4.0, innovation, and evaluation models of countries and businesses regarding Industry 4.0; 2.Building up-to-date Industry 4.0 Index involving developed, developing and least developed countries, and finding a correlation between Industry 4.0 Index and Global Innovation Index; 3.Group and individual country evaluations to assess the impact of Industry 4.0 on innovation; 4.Development of the decision tree for governments to use while creating plans for integrated industry and innovation strategies at the government level. In general, the research consists of introduction, literature review, methodology, results and conclusions. As a result, final framework and conclusions are presented at the end of the thesis. The master thesis is 66 pages, including 17 tables, 7 figures, 76 bibliographical sources. |
