Industry 4.0 and Intellectual Capital: a state of the art

This paper aims to analyse the relationship between Industry 4.0 and Intellectual Capital (IC) in the existing literature to verify the state of the art. A Structured Literature Review (SLR) is useful to verify a state of the art, point out insights and critiques, highlight research gaps and develop future research agendas and questions. We have conducted a keyword search using journal databases like Scopus, Web of Sciences and Google Scholar. The preliminary results show significant attention by academics on the effects of Industry 4.0 on human capital (human resources). The selected studies are principally about the competencies of human capital 4.0, education, development, the readiness of the labour market, the social effects of change and adaptive management systems. The link between Industry 4.0 and the relational or structural capital is almost entirely unexplored. The review is limited by the databases accessed, the search criteria, method of searching, inclusion and exclusion criteria. There is no SLR about the relationship between Industry 4.0 and Intellectual Capital. Thus, the paper contributes to the literature by describing all that has been studied and by highlighting the topics, critiques, future research agendas and questions. Our goal is to contribute to advancing the knowledge on Industry 4.0 and its impact on IC.