D2.1 Guidance paper on key concepts, issues and developments: Conceptual framework guide and working paper
report
This guidance paper provides a common intellectual understanding for the BEYOND4.0 research project. It explains what is to be analysed, why and how. As part of this task, it explains the key developments, issues and concepts that drive the project. It provides a common starting point for the aim of BEYOND4.0 to support the delivery of an inclusive European future by examining the impact of new technologies on the future of jobs, business models and welfare in the European Union (EU). Whilst digitalisation impacts on many facets of work and life, the particular foci of BEYOND4.0 is the digitalisation of production, commonly termed Industrie 4.0, and the digitalisation of work, now not uncommonly termed Uberisation. These foci are selected because of their prominence in current policy and academic debate and because, within those debates, they also cause much consternation: in different ways, there are concerns that both developments potentially herald the death of jobs and the hollowing out of welfare in Europe and elsewhere.
TNO Identifier
946509
Publisher
BEYOND4.0.
Collation
71 p.
Place of publication
S.l.