Digital Technologies and Firm Productivity

Competitiveness, Trade and FDI

This research will provide novel evidence on:

  • Factors influencing the adoption and usage of digital technologies across enterprises;
  • The impact of digital technologies on enterprise innovation and productivity;
  • The effects of complementary investments in knowledge-based-capital (R&D, intellectual property, human capital, organisational capital) that condition the effect of digital technologies on enterprise innovation and productivity;
  • The role of the quality of internet connectivity in conditioning the effects of digital technologies on enterprise innovation and productivity;
  • Knowledge spillovers on enterprise performance from earlier adopters of digital technologies.

This evidence will inform enterprise policies aiming at fostering productivity growth via the adoption and usage of digital technologies.