SEEK-Project 2019: Digitalisation and Heterogeneity

SEEK-Project 2019: Digitalisation and Heterogeneity

Client/Allowance

Baden-Württemberg

Period: 01.01.2019 – 31.03.2021

Recent trends in productivity growth and differences in productivity levels between countries have been increasingly associated with widespread differences between firms within sectors, both in technology use and in firm performance.

The SEEK project "Digitalisation and Heterogeneity" aims to provide a comprehensive overview of the heterogeneity in the diffusion of digital technologies and its impact on firm performance. The analyses focus on the question of how heterogeneous industries and countries are with regard to their investments in digitalisation and how this is linked to heterogeneity in firm success. In particular, the reasons for the observed heterogeneity within industries will be analysed. In contrast to earlier studies, the connection between the heterogeneity of digitalisation and the heterogeneity in the innovation performance and productivity of firms within sectors will be explicitly examined.

In addition to differences in the use of digital technologies in general, cloud computing as one of the central trends in the current discussion on the digitalisation of companies will be examined in more detail. In recent years, cloud computing has led to a change in the way IT resources are used, with companies buying digital services instead of making such investments themselves. Focusing on this new form of IT resources in the firm, interdependencies between IT use and public investment incentives will also be examined.

Project members

Irene Bertschek

Irene Bertschek

Project Coordinator
Head

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Daniel Erdsiek

Daniel Erdsiek

Academic Assistant to the Head of Research Department / Senior Researcher

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Raphaela Andres

Raphaela Andres

Researcher

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Steffen Viete

Steffen Viete

Advanced Researcher

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Dr. Thomas Niebel

Dr. Thomas Niebel

Senior Researcher

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Prof. Mary O'Mahony

Prof. Mary O'Mahony

Research Associate

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Client/Allowance
Baden-Württemberg, Stuttgart, DE