Industry 4.0

Structural Change and Cycles: Economic Potential of Breakthrough Technologies and Its Social Consequences.- Structural and Technological Stalemate in Eurozone: If This Is the Reality, What We Can Expect?,- On the Asymmetry of Economic Cycles.- Modern Trends in Evaluation of Macroeconomic Structural Changes.- Distribution and Clusters of Basic Innovations.- Financial Instability Under Innovation Development: Reasons and Regulation Within the Model of Evolutionary Processes.- Technological Change: The Challenges in the Transition from Fossil Fuel to Renewable Energy.- Racing to a Renewable Transition?.- Metal Matrix/Nanocarbons Composites Based on Copper and Aluminum.- Additive Technologies - The Basis of Digital Custom Manufacturing.- Private Astronautics and Its Role in Space Exploration.- The MANBRIC-technologies in the Forthcoming Technological Revolution.- Global Pattern in Materials Consumption: An Empirical Study.- Entrepreneurship Development: Challenges in Technology Entrepreneurship: Managing Inter-professional Conflicts in Biopharmaceutical Enterprises.- Perception Gaps in International Corporate Entrepreneurship: The Role of Knowledge Transfer's Mechanisms.- Family Business and Entrepreneurship: Competencies and Organizational Behavior.- Metrics for Innovation and Entrepreneurial Networks.- Determinants and Interdependence of Firm Entry, Exit and Mobility.- Coopetition and Co-innovation: Do Manufacturing and Service Providers Behave Differently?

Tessaleno Campos Devezas is Associate Professor with Habilitation at the Department of Electromechanics of the University of Beira Interior, Covilhã, Portugal, where he teaches and researches in the field of Materials Science and Technological Forecasting and leads the research groups of Engineering Materials and Technological Forecasting of the Research Unit C-MAST (Centre for Mechanical Aerospace Science and Technologies). He is a member of the World Future Society, World Futures Studies Federation and International Kondratieff Foundation and member of the Advisory Board of the periodical Technological Forecasting & Social Change. Since March 2011 he serves as consultant to Brazilian Space Program at the IAE-DCTA (Brazilian Institute of Space Activities), in São José dos Campos, São Paulo, Brazil. IIn 2004 he was awarded with the Silver Kondratieff Medal by the Russian Academy of Natural Sciences for his written contributions for the understanding of the Kondratieff waves. He is the author/co-author of more than 60 scientific papers published in several international scientific periodicals and 9 books. His publications exhibit a score of about 1100 citations.
João Leitão is assistant professor at UBI, lecturing on entrepreneurship and economics for undergraduate and graduate economics, engineering, communication sciences, marketing and management students. He is associate researcher of the CEG-IST, University of Lisbon. He is co-author of fourteen books on bench-marking, human capital, clusters, cooperation networks, entrepreneurship, entrepreneurship education, firm growth, innovation, competitiveness and quality of life. His work has been published in several indexed journals, such as, Research Policy, Industrial and Corporate Change, Service Industries Journal, Journal of Evolutionary Economics, Innovation: Management, Policy & Practice, International Journal of Technology Management, International Journal of Entrepreneurial Behaviour and Research,