Behrens, Vanessa; Trunschke, Markus - 2020
their economic performance. By applying the new patent cartography developed by the EPO that identifies firm's 4.0 patents …In this paper we explore the relationship between innovative firms that patent technology related to Industry 4.0 and …, this is one of the first large-scale, systematic studies on the impact of 4.0 technologies. Since 4.0 patents are more …