“Industry 4.0” is an important part of the National High-Tech Strategy of Germany. They are active measures for German machinery and equipment sector to maintain the leading position in the international marketplace,facing challenges from internet and emerging industrial economies. Cyber physical system (CPS) and its using in internet of things and internet of services build the key technology of Industry 4.0. The vision of Industry 4.0 has been drafted by the German government on the basis of historically-proven effective institutions and successful experiences. As a concept of synergic innovation, its implementation relies highly on complex networks between large enterprises and SMEs, integration of all participants along the value chain and coordination between companies, government,universities and other research entities. This is the national innovation system of Germany with its characteristics of “coordinated capitalism”,which meets these needs best.
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