This paper analyses the economic impact of digital technologies in Europe distinguishing between different stages/domains of the digitalization process. A set of composite Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) indicators is used for capturing the access to ICTs, the ability to use...

By integrating different industry level data sources (OECD Input–Output Tables, OECD Structural Analysis Database and EUROSTAT CIS) for a selected number of European countries, this paper aims at assessing the economic impact of business services (BS) on client industries. Compared to previous...

This paper explores the two-way relationship between innovation and economic performance in services using a longitudinal firm-level dataset which matches data from the second Community Innovation Survey, CIS II (1993-95), against a set of economic variables provided by the System of Enterprise...