Digital Innovation and Sustainable Development: Two Sides of the Same Coin

Gianluigi De Pascale, Nicola Faccilongo, Melania Riefolo, Anna Romagno and Raffaele Silvestri

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Abstract: Digital innovations and sustainable development are key words in the current agenda of worldwide policy makers. There are high expectations that digitalization will lead the world to more sustainable paths so that accomplishing net zero economies by 2050, as envisaged by policy packages, such as the Agenda 2030 by United Nations, and the European Green Deal by the European Commission. However, the scientific evidence reveals that this result is not taken for granted, and digital transformation may worsen and make more difficult the road to sustainable development whether the use of digital devices targets only economic performance. This chapter reviews the major evidence provided by the scientific literature and introduces how policymakers have been acting to make these two key words complementary to each other.

Keywords: innovation; digitalization; sustainable development; agenda 2030; twin transition (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: O32 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
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DOI: 10.5772/intechopen.112294

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