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Publication: Toward Qualitative Growth: Exaptations, Graphene and Industry 4.0

Kovacs, O. (2024). Toward qualitative growth: Exaptations, graphene and Industry 4.0. Acta Oeconomica, Vol. 74., no. 3, October 2024, pp. 277-298, https://doi.org/10.1556/032.2024.00014  This contribution aims to address the intriguing issue of whether Industry 4.0, as a techno-economic paradigm shifter, may have a greater potential for exaptation (i.e., using it not for pursuing of quantitative but that of qualitati
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Online conference: Industry 4.0 – Why Revolutionise?

Title InterAct Webinar – What can we expect from the Industry 4.0 revolution? Role Role: speaker Title of the presentation: Industry 4.0 – Why Revolutionise? Location Online Webinar hoster by InterAct-hub (UK Economics and Social Research Council, University of Sheffield, Loughborough University, University of Strathclyde Glasgow) Time: 12:30 pm – 1:30 pm Date 23 May 2024
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Publication: Exaptationary Industry 4.0: Graphene as pathfinder?

Kovács, O. (2024): Exaptationary Industry 4.0: Graphene as pathfinder? Technological Forecasting and Social Change,  Volume 200, March 2024, 123183, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.techfore.2023.123183 This paper seeks to answer the puzzling question whether Industry 4.0 inevitably triggers a sociogenesis that results in new attitudes toward the nature of the socio-economic innovation ecosystem. It asks whether Industry 4.
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