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Table 1 Comparison of existing empirical studies on IoT development and deployment, IoT in general, digitalisation and fourth industrial revolution

From: Empirical study on innovation motivators and inhibitors of Internet of Things applications for industrial manufacturing enterprises

Publication

Main focus

Covers interest and engagement

Covers motivators

Covers inhibitors and challenges

Participant’s role

Enterprise type

Industry

Location (2 digit ISO)

textitN (approx.)

Type of research

(Dijkman et al. 2015)

IoT business models, building block identification

No

No

No

IoT professionals

n/a

n/a

Global (mainly NL, US)

103

Academic

(Geissbauer et al. 2016)

4th industrial revolution, expectations in 5 years

No

(Yes)

Yes

Chief digital officers, senior executives

LE

Industrial product suppliers

Global

2000

Industrial

(Gepp et al. 2015)

Engineering trends, 4th industrial revolution

(Yes)

No

No

Engineering professionals

LE

Engineering-to-order (ETO)

DE

30

Academic

(Greif et al. 2016)

Digitalisation, degree of digitalisation

No

No

(Yes)

Industry professionals

SME

All

CH

300

Industrial

(Hsu and Lin 2016)

IoT services, usage intentions of consumers

No

No

No

Consumers

n/a

n/a

TW

508

Academic

(Kinkel et al. 2016)

Digitalisation, competencies for digitalisation

(Yes)

No

No

Industry professionals

LE and SME

MEM

DE

150

Industrial

(SAS Institute Inc 2016)

IoT deployment process

No

Yes

Yes

IoT professionals

LE

All

Global

75

Industrial

(Skinner 2016)

IoT as service, service provider perspective

No

No

No

Industry professionals

LE and SME

ICT and IoT service providers

Global

900

Industrial

(Twentyman and Swabey 2015)

IoT products, smart product development

Yes

Yes

Yes

R&D, innovation, product development executives

n/a

Retail, healthcare, manufacturing

Global (mainly US, GB)

200

Industrial

(Weiss et al. 2016)

Digitalisation, degree of digitalisation

No

(Yes)

(Yes)

Senior executives

SME

All

IT

53

Academic