Legal barriers to the implementation of digital industry (Industry 4.0) components and ways to overcome them

Abstract

The creation and implementation of competitive digital technologies is an important task for every state striving for global political and economic leadership. Today, the issue of creating and implementing components of the digital industry (Industry 4.0), the use of which can significantly affect the development of industrial production of the state, is especially relevant. At the same time, solving this problem is extremely difficult due to the need to overcome some barriers that hinder the development of the digital industry (Industry 4.0). Among these, legal barriers pose a major problem. The purpose of the article was to identify the key legal barriers to the implementation of the components of the digital industry (Industry 4.0) and choose the best ways to overcome them. The methods that formed the basis of the study were a comparative legal analysis of the current domestic and foreign legislation, as well as scientific literature on the digital industry, its components, barriers that hinder their development and tools to overcome them, as well as a systemic method and method of legal modeling. As a result of the study, the authors identified the key legal barriers to creating and implementing components of the digital industry (Industry 4.0). To overcome them, the authors propose to use legal instruments, the complex application of which will contribute to the improvement of the current legislation in the field of digital technologies creation, the attraction of investments in their creation and implementation, as well as ensuring the digital sovereignty of the country.

Legal status of the actors of the experimental legal regimes (regulatory sandboxes) in Russia

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A study on the barriers that impact the adoption of Industry 4.0 in the context of Brazilian companies

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“…However, despite the incentives, research shows that the level of implementation of this new industrial model is still low, with little adoption of projects involving I4.0 (Kamble et al, 2018;M€ uller et al, 2018). It is noteworthy that for the successful implementation of I4.0 technologies, organizations must assess the different barriers (Gromova et al, 2022;Roca and O'Sullivan, 2020) and identify ways to overcome them (M€ uller et al, 2018).…”

“…As can be observed, the literature presents several studies exploring the barriers to I4.0 adoption. Regarding the methodology used, the studies explore the case study, mainly in the manufacturing sector (Kumar et al, 2021c; the systematic review (Elhusseiny and Crispim, 2022;Gromova et al, 2022;Verma et al, 2022;Yilmaz et al, 2022;Reis and Camargo J unior, 2021;Stornelli et al, 2021), qualitative analysis in several case studies (Cugno et al, 2021) and survey (Stentoft et al, 2021). Most of these studies address multicriteria analysis and/or interpretive structural modeling (ISM) (Jena and Patel, 2022;Senna et al, 2022;Verma et al, 2022;Kumar et al, 2021bMahmood et al, 2021;Majumdar et al, 2021;Vigneshvaran and Vinodh, 2020).…”

Criminal-Legal Protection of Robotics: Notion and Content

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