New digital technologies are currently becoming one of the main sources of building a competitive advantage for enterprises. The Internet of Things and big data are opening the previously unknown possibilities for optimising production processes and improving the productivity. The speed, nature...

The article aims to contribute to the discussion and research on economic, ethical and legal aspects of digital transformation in the agri-food sector. The previous technological revolution (the so-called Green Revolution) significantly raised the efficiency indices and productivity in...

Digitalisation has become one of the core concepts in European modernisation. Whileinvestment in computer hardware, telecommunications equipment, software and databaseshas increased over the years, the degree of modernity of the overall capital stock has not.This paper examines whether there is...

Die Digitalisierung ist der maßgebliche Treiber des industriellen Wandels. Daher ist Industrie 4.0 auch in aller Munde und erstreckt sich längst nicht mehr auf Industrieunternehmen. Moderne Technologien verändern Unternehmensstrukturen und ganze Branchen. Ihr Einsatz, wie Big Data,...

Die deutsche Volkswirtschaft steht vor großen Herausforderungen, die durch den Krieg in der Ukraine, die Konflikte im Nahen Osten, die Energiepreiskrise und geopolitische Unsicherheiten verstärkt werden. Besonders prägend sind die vier großen Trends Digitalisierung, Dekarbonisierung,...

Decelerating productivity in recent years raised questions about technology diffusion in the economy. This study focuses on one particular diffusion channel, entrepreneurship, and inspects the mechanics through which it interacts with digitalization. The composite indicator of digitalization is...

This paper develops a framework for measuring digital services in the face of ongoing innovations in the delivery of content to consumers. We capture what Brynjolfsson and Saunders (2009) call "free goods" as the capital services generated by connected consumers' stocks of IT digital goods; this...

Embedding new technology creates opportunities and challenges for the global value chain (GVC). Using country-level panel data from 59 economies in 2007–2018, we construct a fixed-effects model to investigate the relationship between digital technology and the GVC position. Moreover, we...

Die deutsche Volkswirtschaft steht vor großen Herausforderungen, die durch den Krieg in der Ukraine, die Konflikte im Nahen Osten, die Energiepreiskrise und geopolitische Unsicherheiten verstärkt werden. Besonders prägend sind die vier großen Trends Digitalisierung, Dekarbonisierung,...

Digitalisation has become one of the core concepts in European modernisation. Whileinvestment in computer hardware, telecommunications equipment, software and databaseshas increased over the years, the degree of modernity of the overall capital stock has not.This paper examines whether there is...