Regions beyond Industry 4.0
本特刊从多个角度探讨工业4.0给区域和城市带来的机遇与挑战，包括技术创新能力的区域分布、对就业和劳动力市场的影响，以及政策如何支持区域转型。
This special issue presents a collection of papers that explore from different angles the opportunities and challenges that Industry 4.0 poses to regions and cities. Papers investigate issues concerning: regional economies’ potential in creating new technologies by mapping the regional distribution of technological innovation capabilities and technological adoption; the implications for jobs and labour markets of the related regional socio-economic shocks; and how the awareness and adoption of such technologies are transforming regions and places. Transversally, the role of policy, agency and stakeholders will be pulled out with current examples of visionary strategies and practical instrumental policies that are actively supporting firms, regions, and places to embrace and drive a transformation that is as testing as it is inevitable.