Download This PaperIndustrial Pattern and Robot Adoption in European Regions
33 Pages Posted: 21 Jul 2020
Date Written: July 18, 2020
Abstract
Recent literature on the diffusion of robots mostly ignores the regional dimension. The contribution of this paper at the debate on Industry 4.0 is twofold. First, IFR (2017) data on acquisitions of industrial robots in the five largest European economies are rescaled at regional levels to draw a first picture of winners and losers in the European race for advanced manufacturing. Second, using an unsupervised machine learning approach to classify regions based on their composition of industries. The paper provides novel evidence of the relationship between industry mix and the regional capability of adopting robots in the industrial processes.
Keywords: Robots, Industry 4.0, Innovation, Industry Mix, Self-Organizing Maps
JEL Classification: E32, O33, R11, R12
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Marco Guerzoni
Università degli Studi di Milano-Bicocca - Department of Economics, Management and Statistics (DEMS) ( email )
Piazza dell'Ateneo Nuovo, 1
Milan, 20126
Italy