Topic: Digital competition

Digitalisation is reshaping the global economic order. As companies digitalise products and services, their market positions are shifting. How can we carve out a European approach to the international digital competition?

Data Economy

Data can be understood as an economic good in its own right, shared and traded much like any other commodity. However, the bold prediction that data would become a ‘new asset class’ has yet to materialise.

Green Data, Indicators, Algorithms: Connecting Smart Cities and Sustainable Finance (GREEN DIA)

Green DIA explored biases, implicit theories of change and implications of existing sustainability measurement and valuation models and generated, against the background of this analysis, new regionally, spatially and institutionally…

Effects of data portability on the willingness to use and pay for online services

Based on a conjoint analysis, the working paper examines the influence of actively communicating data portability on the willingness to use e-mail services.

Data portability pays off: a data portability option improves user perception of online services

A bidt-funded project has investigated how data-sharing options affect the willingness to use and pay for online services.

International trade in ICT services

International trade in ICT services

The indicator shows the share of information and communications technology (ICT) services in a country’s imports and exports. TIt therefore provides insight into the relevance of ICT services for a given location. Compared…

Company with e-commerce

Company with e-commerce

The indicator provides information on how large the share of companies in a country that conduct e-commerce is.

ICT training courses

ICT training courses

The indicator shows how strong the ICT sector is in terms of the share of total economic output in a country.

Software

The term software describes programmes that run on hardware devices. Software combines three essential concepts that are all data-based: calculation, communication, and storage.

Sharing economy

Sharing economy is an umbrella term for an emerging form of economy in which tangible and intangible resources are shared using digital platforms.

Quantum computing

The theory of quantum computing states that the use of quantum mechanical computation leads to a lower runtime complexity for some problems that would not be possible using a conventional computer.