Standortindex DIGITAL: Nützlich zum Erkennen von Handlungserfordernissen im IKT-Sektor?

Torsten Gerpott ()

Wirtschaftsdienst, 2016, vol. 96, issue 1, 26-33

Abstract: Both the German Federal Chancellor and Minster of Economic Affairs unanimously emphasised at the last “national IT summit” on 18-19 November 2015 that the degree of digitisation in the German economy and society is mediocre when compared internationally, and that in the recent past Germany has even lost ground to other countries regarding the nation’s “ICT isation”. These assessments were justified by the results of a new study commissioned by the Federal Ministry of Economic Affairs in which a market research firm construed a so called “location index DIGITAL”. The present article shows that the quality of this measurement instrument is poor. As a consequence, the tenability of the economic policy conclusions drawn from the index by high level government representatives is low. Copyright ZBW and Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2016

Keywords: C43; L52; L86; L88; L96; L98 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2016
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DOI: 10.1007/s10273-016-1921-4

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