Industry 4.0 and Digitization: Regions and Metropolises Facing Divergent Social and Industrial Change - Paperback

by Ulrich Hilpert (Editor)

This book includes studies on regions, industries and tendencies of industrial change and spatial concentration of competences and industrial potentials. The chapters in this volume provide for discussions concerning a wider understanding of situations related to Industry 4.0 and digitization.

Author Biography

Ulrich Hilpert is Professor of Comparative Government at the University of Jena, Germany; Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences, London; Senior Fellow of the Hans-Böckler-Foundation, Düsseldorf, and has been visiting professor at a dozen universities in Europe and the United States. His main areas of research are comparative studies in technology, innovation, regional development, global networking, and skilled and university trained labour.