Philip Shapira, part-time professor in the School of Public Policy, recently co-authored an article published in Technological Forecasting and Social Change. The article is titled “Policy interactions with research trajectories: The case of cyber-physical convergence in manufacturing and industrials.”

In it, Shapira and his co-authors discuss the concept of "cyber-physical convergence" by providing a clearer definition of the term and outlining its influence on manufacturing and industrials. The split the convergence-related research domain into five data-centric capabilities – Monitoring, Analytics, Modelling and Simulation, Transmission and Security – before analyzing the domain as a whole.

The full article can be read at https://doi.org/10.1016/j.techfore.2021.121347.