Digitalisation of the Economy in Germany - Digitalisation Index 2020
Expertises // 2020The corona pandemic in 2020 gave a boost to digitalisation in Germany and showed the opportunities that it can create. However, it also became clear that there are shortcomings in the context of digitalisation. To produce valid underlying data for the status quo and the development of digitalisation in the German economy, the annually published Digitalisation Index has been developed. In particular, it provides results for digitalisation by sector, company size class, federal state group, and type of region.
The index can be broken down into company-internal and company-external aspects. The company-internal aspects include the five categories of processes, products, business models, qualification, and research and innovation activities. The company-external aspects cover the categories of technical infrastructure, administrative-legal framework, society, human capital, and innovation landscape. All categories contain multiple indicators. Since the availability of the data differs, not all indicators and categories are applicable for all of the aforementioned differentiations in the index.
In the following, the core results for 2020, the survey year, are provided. An extensive report on the results together with a detailed analysis will be published at the beginning of 2021. Detailed results for individual categories and indicators can be seen in the interactive indicator tool (Indiokatoren-Tool) at de.digital.
Büchel, Jan, Vera Demary, Jan Goecke, Christian Rusche, Alexander Burstedde, Barbara Engels, Oliver Koppel, Armin Mertens, Marc Scheufen, Jan Wendt, Johannes Ewald, Vanessa Hünnemeyer, Hanno Kempermann, Karl Lichtblau, Edgar Schmitz, Irene Bertschek, Thomas Niebel, Christian Rammer, Bettina Schuck, Frederick Birtel, Tobias Harland, Jan Hicking and Lucas Wenger (2020), Digitalisation of the Economy in Germany - Digitalisation Index 2020, Summary of a study as part of the project “Development and Measurement of the Digitalisation of the Economy in Germany” on behalf of the German Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy , Bundesministerium für Wirtschaft und Klimaschutz (BMWK), Berlin