Research into Patents: Automotive patents reveal 4IR impact

Moderator: Rainer Osterwalder, Director, Communication, EPO

Guest: Alessandra Perri, Associate Professor, Ca’ Foscari University

While the accelerating ubiquity of digital technologies can be experienced almost universally, the automotive sector is particularly strongly affected by the 4th industrial revolution. Alessandra Perri presents a patent landscaping study that invites us to take a deeper look at this source of industrial turbulence, as she terms it, to better understand where the digital changes in cars come from, and who is driving them.