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Advanced Manufacturing or Industry 4.0 Scholarly Works: Are They Relevant to Technology Development?

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Industrial Engineering and Operations Management (IJCIEOM 2021)

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Advanced Manufacturing and Industry 4.0 technologies represent the new strategic paths of the manufacturing industry to retain the globalized market competitiveness. However, few studies have attempted to analyze the impact of scholarly works related to those technologies in results obtained from R&D developments, such as patents. Therefore, the aim of this work is to determine which technological patterns are followed by those patents that make use of scholarly works related to Advanced Manufacturing or Industry 4.0 as Non Patent Literature. The results obtained show that the main beneficiaries of the patents are companies that develop medical devices and embedded software, generally collaborating in small isolated research groups, and the technological development carried out is mainly directed towards semiconductor devices and medical devices and pumps. In addition, it should be noted that despite being a highly developed topic in the scientific field (16,118 documents), very few works (113 documents) are being cited as Non Patent Literature in patents (288 patents).

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  1. Technology, Foresight and Management Research Group, Department of Industrial Engineering and Management Engineering, University of the Basque Country UPV/EHU, Bilbao, Spain

    Izaskun Alvarez-Meaza, Ernesto Cilleruelo-Carrasco & Rosa Maria Rio-Belver

  2. Unilever Foods Industrial España, Leioa, Spain

    Jon Borregan-Alvarado

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  1. Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

    Antônio Márcio Tavares Thomé

  2. Federal Center for Technological Education "Celso Suckow da Fonseca", Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

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  3. Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

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  4. Lusofona University and EIGeS Research Unit, Lisbon, Portugal

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Alvarez-Meaza, I., Borregan-Alvarado, J., Cilleruelo-Carrasco, E., Rio-Belver, R.M. (2021). Advanced Manufacturing or Industry 4.0 Scholarly Works: Are They Relevant to Technology Development?. In: Tavares Thomé, A.M., Barbastefano, R.G., Scavarda, L.F., Gonçalves dos Reis, J.C., Amorim, M.P.C. (eds) Industrial Engineering and Operations Management. IJCIEOM 2021. Springer Proceedings in Mathematics & Statistics, vol 367. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-78570-3_26

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