The world economy and societies are going through a digital transformation that goes well beyond computerisation and … management and data protection. The digital transformation calls for cooperation among the different layers of administration in … use of information and telecommunications technologies. This transformation is creating opportunities and challenges for …

paper sheds new light on the labour productivity premium from adopting digital technologies and boosting digital skill use …. The productivity premium is decomposed into a direct effect benefitting the firms actually increasing their digital … intensity, and an indirect effect of belonging to a sector with high digital intensity. The firm-level productivity premium of …

to gain from digital technology diffusion, with strong digital foundations, including advanced and secure physical and … digital infrastructure and world-leading e-government services. Turning this potential into a productivity boost necessitates … speeding up digital take-up also outside of the ICT sector and fostering the complementarities between digital technologies …

Digital technologies impact innovation in all sectors of the economy, including traditional ones such as agriculture … innovation and the conditions for digital technology adoption. The analysis calls for revisiting innovation policy mixes to … policies in some domains, especially regarding data access and digital technology adoption policies. The current focus of …

Austria’s transition to a digital economy and society is slower than in other high-income small open European economies … with a gap, which has widened in most areas in recent years. Two dynamics drive digital transitions and Austria has room … for progress in both of them. First, the potential for digitalisation in all firms, and especially in the smaller ones …

This paper presents a range of policies to enhance adoption of digital technologies and firm productivity. It … be the main factors supporting the efficient adoption of a selection of digital technologies. The most productive firms … have benefitted relatively more from digitalisation in the past, contributing to a widening productivity gap with less …