TY  - Report
AU  - Stephen Roper
AU  - Jane Bourke


PY  - 2018
T1  - Industry 4.0 is coming: is digital  adoption a new mechanism linking  entrepreneurial ambition to  business performance?
PB  - Enterprise Research Centre

IS  - ERC Research Paper 72
DO  - https://doi.org/APO-208506
UR  - https://apo.org.au/node/208506

AB  - The advent of Industry 4.0 emphasises the potential importance of digital adoption for sustained competitiveness. Here, based on new survey data for over 9,000 firms in the UK, Ireland and USA we consider whether digital adoption provides a new mechanism through which firms’ growth ambition is realised. Our analysis emphasises the commonality of factors linked to adoption in each of the three countries. Four key conclusions emerge. First, we find strong evidence that growth ambition is associated with digital innovation.
ER  -