First Published in 2005. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

World-renowned economist Klaus Schwab, Founder and Executive Chairman of the World Economic Forum, explains that we have an opportunity to shape the fourth indu

This eleventh edition was developed during the encyclopaedia's transition from a British to an American publication. Some of its articles were written by the be

This is an open access title available under the terms of a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 International licence. It is free to read at Oxford Scholarship Online and offered a