This document discusses the Japanese context of Society 5.0. Based on a society-centered
approach, Society 5.0 seeks to take advantage of technological advances to finally solve the …

Sustainable development goals (SDGs), adopted by the United Nations in 2015, are gaining
importance in all the industrial sectors. The attainment of SDGs will lead to simultaneous …

By introducing digital technologies, Industry 4.0 may be transforming the traditional systems
of the manufacturing industries, which are often blamed for high environmental degradation …

Digital Twins (DT) are of particular interest in the domain of Product-Service Systems (PSS),
to predict hardware availability, to inform about the needed features of new solutions, and to …

Industry 4.0 (I4. 0) technologies have been highlighted in recent literature as enablers of
servitisation. Simultaneously, businesses are advised to implement a circular economy (CE) …

Improving national competitiveness is fundamental to raising long-term economic growth
rates and enhancing living standards. The determinants of competitiveness change along …

The identification of a reference framework—the sustainable business model structure—
exposes a new tool for banks to reanalyse their business models and adapt to a climate …

Digitalisation provides access to an integrated network of information that can benefit society
and businesses. However, the evidence of sustainability in business is less researched. In …

The overarching call to action represented by the sustainable development goals (SDGs)
calls for new sustainable production and management models. Likewise, in periods of crisis …

The digitization of logistics processes enables, among others, real-time data exchange,
which is currently the driving force of the modern economy, as well as functioning supply …