Industry 4.0 and Sustainability : Ten propositions how digital business models foster sustainability in Industry 4.0

Industry has a particular responsibility to shape the transformation from our current economy into an ecologically and socially sustainable one. The ongoing digitalization and networking of industrial value chains as the core of Industry 4.0 offer new opportunities and capabilities for sustainability. This paper proposes ten theses how digital business models can increase sustainability in Industry 4.0. Sustainability is a driver of structural change: In parallel to our current digital transformation, we need a sustainability transformation of today's business models into future-proof new approaches