Technology, Business, Innovation, and Entrepreneurship in Industry 4.0

This book presents the most recent innovations, trends, and challenges in several aspects of Industry 4.0, including the key technologies and business impacts. The book is relevant to a variety of stakeholders due to Industry 4.0’s broad impact in many fields. Topics include digital workplace solutions for employee engagement, entrepreneurship and innovation, and Blockchain for business security. The authors cover Industry 4.0 both from a theoretical and applicable standpoint.

Teresa Guarda received her PhD in Systems and Information Technologies from Minho University. She is researcher in ALGORITMI Research Centre of Minho University, Portugal (research team Intelligent Data Systems (IDS), Information Systems and Technologies (IST) R&D group); is member and responsible for Conferences and International Relations of the interdisciplinary research group BITrum; member and researcher of GSIS The Institute for a Global Sustainable Society; and Vice President of the International Society for the Study of Information, Austria. She already has relevant indexed publications in the main research topics: Pervasive Systems, Marketing Intelligence, Intelligent Decision Support Systems, Intelligent Systems, Business Intelligence, Crowdsourcing, Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery, Data Security, Information Science, Smart Destinations, Internet-of-Things, Computer Theory, Knowledge Management, Cybersecurity, Applied Social and Educational Technologies. Has also been organizer of several conferences and workshops being member of editorial board and reviewer of indexed scientific journals of these areas. She has been a professor and researcher in different academic institutions in Portugal since 1991; currently, she is Director of the CIST Research and Innovation Center of the Faculty of Systems and Telecommunications, Peninsula of Santa Elena State University (Ecuador).

Cristina Fernandes is an Assistant Professor with accreditation at the University of Beira Interior (UBI), Portugal. She holds a PhD in Management from the University of Beira Interior. She is currently the scientific coordinator of the Entrepreneurship, Competitiveness and Innovation research line of the research center NECE -Center for Studies in Business Sciences at the University of Beira Interior. Centre for Corporate Entrepreneurship and Innovation at Loughborough University, UK. She is part of the editorial board of Management Decision; has several dozen scientific articles published in international journals including Journal of Technology Transfer; Journal of Knowledge Management; R&D Management and Journal of Business Research. Actively participates in scientific meetings and international conferences on these topics, having been distinguished several times with awards for best article. Has participation in several international projects.

Maria Fernanda Augusto is BS in Business Administration, MS in Business Financial and Tax Management, MS in Taxation) is entrepreneurship and researcher. Her research interest is focused in business, information science, digital marketing and knowledge management. She is Strategy & Funding Desk Officer of the interdisciplinary research group Bitrum, Spain, and invited researcher of CIST Research and Innovation Center of the Faculty of Systems and Telecommunications, Peninsula of Santa Elena State University (Ecuador), and has participation in several international projects