Abstract
In order to succeed in a competitive environment, enterprises and organizations must quickly respond to external influences, such as digitalization, expansion of information exchange, and challenges caused by Industry 4.0. High-tech knowledge-intensive enterprises that develop and commercialize their original innovative products and technologies as well as provide intellectual services in the field of high technologies are the first to respond to such challenges. A number of works on how the digitalization in economy impacts organizational and managerial activities of enterprises, their R&D, and creation, production and commercialization of innovative products are analyzed. As the results of the study, a number of properties and patterns that determine the successful adaptation of innovative enterprises to the challenges of Industry 4.0 wereidentified. Among them there are material resources, including technology and equipment, scientific and technological achievements, financial, personnel and information support and adaptive organizational and economic capabilities. It is shown that in order to adapt to the challenges of Industry 4.0, enterprises must match capabilities of the digital economy with their material, intellectual and production resources using innovative potential as a measurement tool. It is determined that the procedures for assessing the innovative potential of enterprises can become an effective tool for assessing both quantitative/qualitative indicators of enterprises and degree of their adaptation to the challenges of Industry 4.0. The proposed methodology for a comprehensive assessment of industrial enterprises’ innovative potential as the degree of their adaptation to the challenges of Industry 4.0 was implemented at the high-tech knowledge-intensive enterprises “Shtorm” and “Tekhnotron”. Both of them are well known for their innovative developments in the field of welding production. It was demonstrated that the proposed methodology allows not just assessing the degree of adaptation to the digital economy and the challenges of Industry 4.0, but also assessing the impact of planned activities on innovations and determine methods and means of responding to the changes in external and internal environment of enterprises.
Highlights
To maximize the consideration of these provisions, we have summarized the opinions of experts obtained by the survey on the topic: “What additional indicators of innovative potential most characterize the digital transformation of enterprises and their adaptation to the challenges of Industry 4.0?” A survey of expert groups was conducted at 24 high-tech knowledge-intensive enterprises specializing in the development and production of innovative products
The theoretical, methodological and practical provisions formulated by the authors of this article about the conditions for adapting high-tech knowledge-intensive enterprises to the challenges of Industry 4.0 indicate cardinal differences between new ways of creating and commercializing innovative products from traditional ones due to the widespread use of digital technologies
Such enterprises in the conditions of the challenges of Industry 4.0 can no longer be limited to solving the traditional range of tasks, but must change approaches to their activities in the field of R&D, creation and commercialization of their products, taking into account the capabilities of modern digital technologies
Summary
The constantly growing commodity market of such products increases the requirements for the uniqueness of knowledgeintensivedevelopments, technological sophistication and product improvement It is well known [17] that a significant role in increasing the share of complex knowledgeintensiveproducts is played by high-tech knowledge-intensiveenterprises that develop and commercialize their original innovative goods, products and technologies, and provide intellectual services in the field of high technologies. Their development provided the ability to exchange data in production technologies, including cyber-physical systems, the Internet of things, big data and analytics, augmented reality, additive manufacturing, modeling, horizontal and vertical system integration, autonomous robots, and cloud computing In this way, digital technologies help integrate and combine intelligent knowledge-intensiveequipment and personnel to build systematic value chains and innovative products [26]. For this entire set of qualitatively new production relations and the conditions for managing the value chain throughout the entire life cycle of innovative products, the name Industry 4.0 has been fixed
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