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?

Platform economy

Internet search engines such as Google Search are well-known examples of digital platforms. These platforms act as matchmakers between different market actors, e. g. connecting internet users with website operators and advertisers.

Digitalisation

Originally a technical term, digitalisation broadly describes the use of various digital technologies and the associated, diverse transformation processes.

Digital transformation

In the first approach, digital transformation refers to changes in society or social subsystems accompanying digitalisation.

Digital economy

An economy that is exclusively or primarily based on digital products and services is referred to as digital.

Learning from the ‘frontrunner’? A multidisciplinary analysis of the Chinese Social Credit System and its impact on Germany

The project investigated the opportunities and risks derived from China’s SCS-driven digital transformation.

Business models of data-driven start-ups and their positioning along the value chain (DaGeWe)

The image of start-ups pushing traditional companies out of the market is only half the truth: A bidt-funded project has shown how established companies benefit from new players with data-driven business models .

Awareness, motivation and implementation of data portability – Enabling radical and disruptive innovation through enhanced data portability (amiDaPo)

The project investigated how data portability can be implemented in order to improve competition between online services and data-driven innovations.

Industry 4.0

In the fourth industrial revolution, computerised machines communicate via the internet and along the entire value chain in order to independently self-organise.

Intellectual property

Intellectual property describes independent intellectual goods that are protected in such a comprehensive way by the legal system that their owner can prevent their use by others.

Digital business model

A business model is called digital if digital technologies fundamentally influence how a company does business and generates revenue.