Innovating From Within

9 TECH INTRAPRENEURSHIP IN EASTERN EUROPEFrom obedient order-taker to digital consultant

Sebastian Vaduva, Alexandrina Maria Pauceanu and Carmen Fagadar

DOI: 10.4324/9781003348825-9

1 Introduction

According to Klaus Schwab (2017) of the World Economic Forum, we are in the midst of the 4th industrial revolution, in pursuit of what now others also refer to as industry 4.0 (Dwivedi et al., 2021; Ghobakhloo, 2020; Oztemel Gursev, 2020; Xu et al., 2021). The first industrial revolution started in the late 17th century and had steam as its main energy source. The second industrial revolution started in the late 19th century and had electricity and petroleum as their energy sources. The third industrial revolution started in the late 1970s and had ...