Regions on course for the Fourth Industrial Revolution: the role of a strong indigenous T-KIBS sector
研究认为，拥有强大技术型知识密集型商业服务（T-KIBS）部门的区域，其制造业更容易向工业4.0多元化发展。通过空间计量模型分析24个欧盟国家数据，检验了本地KIBS部门内部结构对产业经济结果的影响。
From the perspective that a region’s industrial development mostly builds upon existing local capability endowments to form a trajectory of related diversifications, we argue that regions with a strong technology-based knowledge-intensive business service (T-KIBS) sector potentially have resource-based relatedness in their ‘knowledge space’ allowing their local manufacturing sector to diversify production more easily towards Industry 4.0. The study assays whether the internal configuration of the local KIBS sector contributes to the economic outcome of local industry by implementing spatial econometrics models on a regionalized database for 24 European Union countries.