ABSTRACT

Enabled by Industry 4.0, new forms of productive value creation emerge in urban spaces. But how the value creation of new digital urban production (DUP) differs from that of incumbent manufacturing and how it benefits from urban contexts remain unclear. Closing this gap, we study DUP firms in selected cities of North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. Results indicate that DUP integrates production and design, and it displays circular problem-based value creation to develop complex production-related solutions. At urban locations, DUP draws particular advantages from proximity to customers, employees and knowledge – conducive context qualities which outweigh the ‘footloosening’ powers of digital tools.

摘要

在工业 4.0 的推动下，城市空间中出现了新的生产价值创造形式。但是，新数字城市生产 (DUP) 的价值创造与现有制造业的价值创造有何不同，以及它如何从城市环境中受益尚不清楚。为了弥补这一差距，我们研究了德国北莱茵-威斯特法伦州选定城市的 DUP 公司。结果表明，DUP 集成了生产和设计，它展示了基于问题的循环价值创造，以开发与生产相关的复杂解决方案。在城市地区，DUP 从靠近客户、员工和知识方面获得了特殊的优势——有利的环境质量超过了数字工具的“放松”能力。