Innovation networking: piccole e medie imprese nella prospettiva dell'Industria 4.0

The present work aims to investigate how the challenge posed by Industry 4.0 can contribute to solving the problems of innovative SMEs and, consequently, what are the opportunities for Italy. To this end, after presenting the new technological paradigm, we will proceed to the structural analysis of innovative companies as well as the barriers to the full deployment of the implicit potentials. This will be followed by the identification of some guidelines for the activation of territorial framework useful to support horizontal and widespread contamination, through the sharing of knowledge and the pervasive dissemination of skills and competences 4.0.