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Joan Torrent‐Sellens is a leading scholar at the intersection of digital transformation, industrial organization, and sustainable economic growth. His research primarily explores how Industry 4.0 technologies—including robotics, automation, and artificial intelligence—reshape productivity, employment, and firm performance, with a particular focus on small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs). His most cited work, "Knowledge, robots and productivity in SMEs: Explaining the second digital wave" (202 citations), fundamentally challenges traditional productivity metrics by demonstrating that technological complementarities generate unrecorded gains in modern economies. Torrent‐Sellens has made seminal contributions to understanding the dynamic capabilities framework, showing in his highly influential 2020 study (119 citations) how environmental assets and Industry 4.0 technologies jointly drive firm performance and sustainability in Spain. His longitudinal machine learning analysis of robotics' impact on manufacturing (70 citations) and his work on automation's long-term effects for Spanish industrial firms (67 citations) provide rigorous empirical evidence for policy-relevant debates on technological unemployment and industrial competitiveness. Notably, his cross-European study on trust in robot-assisted surgery (42 citations) extends his expertise into healthcare, revealing critical public perception factors that influence technology adoption. With over 600 total citations across these core papers, Torrent‐Sellens stands as a pivotal voice in understanding how digital complementarities redefine economic growth in the twenty-first century.