Behrens, Vanessa; Viete, Steffen - 2020
IR) in Germany and worldwide between the years 1990 and 2016. The descriptive analysis of these digital inventions at the … current technological frontier yields several main findings. Germany is a leader in 4IR innovations, accounting for 12% of all … leaders, Germany‘s 4IR patents are relatively more directed to the motor vehicles sector and less so to the ICT sector. This …