近期刊载于Journal of Digital Economy期刊的论文"Fusions of industrialisation and digitalisation (FID) in the digital economy: Industrial system digitalisation, digital technology industrialisation, and beyond"基于最近两个案例的观察，讨论了工业化与数字化的融合，并提出工业化与数字化融合可以分为三个过程和一个新的转化结果。

文章信息

Fusions of industrialisation and digitalisation (FID) in the digital economy: Industrial system digitalisation, digital technology industrialisation, and beyond

Yongjiang Shi, Yibo Gao, Yining Luo, Jialun Hu

作者简介

Yongjiang Shi

英国剑桥大学副教授，现任英国剑桥大学国际制造与管理研究中心主任，研究领域为工业系统与全球化、中国制造与演化、可持续发展工业系统。

Jialun Hu

伦敦大学皇家霍洛威学院高级讲师（副教授），研究领域为低碳管理与金融、商业智能分析、可持续发展工业系统、供应链运营管理。

Yibo Gao

剑桥大学制造研究院博士，研究领域为产业升级与融合，区域商业生态系统。

Yining Luo

剑桥大学制造研究院博士生，研究领域为数字经济与新兴产业，创新/商业生态系统。

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期刊简介

工业革命将人类从早期的农业社会转变为工业化时代，而21世纪则见证了数字文明的崛起。Journal of Digital Economy (JDE)由清华大学社会科学学院经济学研究所与科爱共同创办，致力于阐明这个数字时代是如何扩展、重组和挑战现有知识和传统方法的。JDE是一个多学科的平台，包括但不限于经济学、管理学、社会学、政治经济学，计算机科学和环境科学。JDE研究如何在数字时代提高经济福祉、社会公平和环境可持续性。JDE欢迎以实践和政策为导向的研究，以应对我们这个时代特有的挑战和利用机遇。

主编

戎珂

清华大学社科学院经济学所

清华大学长聘教授、博导

研究方向为商业/创新生态系统、数字经济和数据生态

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Fusions of industrialisation and digitalisation (FID) in the digital economy: Industrial system digitalisation, digital technology industrialisation, and beyond

Summary: This paper discusses the fusion of industrialisation and digitalisation built upon two recent case observations, and suggests that industrial–digital fusion can be divided into three processes and one new transmuted outcome. From the process perspective, firstly, fusion described as the digitisation of industrial systems can effectively improve competitive attributes through the adoption of digital technologies in existing industrial systems, especially in its weak links. Secondly, fusion described as the industrialisation of digital technology provides a new service model to create a new industry based on successful digital applications. Thirdly, as the integration of the above two processes, fusion can establish a reciprocal and iterative process between the above two processes and eventually achieve self-evolutions effectively and healthily. Additionally, from the transmutation outcome perspective, fusion can be recognised as a set of interactive mechanisms and principles within the metaverse and between virtual and real worlds.

Main text: The world has entered an exciting new stage of digital transmutation in which industrial systems are digitally transforming while individual digital technologies are efficiently being industrialised with new business models. The fusion of industrialisation and digitalisation has the potential to fundamentally enhance Chinese industrial systems and further nurture business ecosystems. However, how to achieve the fusions and transmutations remains a serious challenging issue for both academic and practical communities. In the case of the first fusion, namely the digitalisation of industrial systems, the paper reviews the digital transformation for product design, sourcing and procurement, production and servitisation phases as well as the general management processes of design, operation and continuous improvement in industrial systems. A five-step general process of transforming is summarised. In the case of the second fusion, namely the industrialisation of digital technology, the paper develops an iterative process model with the five stages of accumulating experience, generating business models, building up industry, operating and improving and finally embedding the industrial system in the ecosystem. On the basis of the two fusions described, a further interactive relationship between the digitalisation of an industrial system and the industrialisation of digital technology is depicted. It is proposed that the digitalisation of the industrial system triggers the industrialisation of digital technology and eventually forms an iterative cycle that triggers the digitalisation of an industrial system in a new industry. Following the iterative endless cycle of the two fusions, the paper further explores broader possible outcomes for four interconnected perspectives: the fusions form a virtualisation process for an industrial system; the virtualisation creates a virtual world; the virtual world interacts with the real world; and the iterations nurture a new industry in which the real world and virtual world interact. The paper finally compares the differences between the classical industry and new industry within the 4C (context, configuration, capability, coevolution) deconstruction framework.