Topic: Digital competition

With three new research projects, the bidt is strengthening its Economy and Labour research area. The projects focus on AI in organisations, the digital labour market, and the transformation of public-sector organisations.

The project is developing a data-driven monitoring system for the digital workplace in Bavaria. The results will be made available to policymakers, academics and the general public via an interactive dashboard.

Through independent research carried out in Bavaria, the bidt’s RESREG project is helping to regulate digital markets more fairly. In this interview, Jan Krämer and Leonie Ott explain why interoperability plays a key role…

The conference builds on the Digital Humanism Initiative, an international collaboration dedicated to fostering a community of scholars, policymakers, and industry leaders committed to ensuring that technological development…

How do students’ ideas develop into concrete applications for digital transformation? This question was the focus of the third Demo Day organised by the bidt Digitalisation Labs.

This working paper analyzes how public-sector organizations are shaping digital transformation and identifies gaps in research regarding strategies, roles, processes, and evaluation.

Jan Gogoll and Niina Zuber explain how ethical reflection can be integrated into agile software development—and why AI coding assistants cannot replace human responsibility.

This working paper examines why organisational culture shapes the outcome of digital transformation – and identifies five key attributes of a “digital culture”, particularly in relation to AI and machine learning.

The 2026 SZ Digital Summit focused on Europe’s digital future, with a particular emphasis on AI, security and sovereignty.

Startups4State taps into collaboration potential between digital start-ups and public administration by analysing barriers and developing models that advance digital transformation in the public sector.