New Study – Digital Competitiveness

The new EconSight study for the Bavarian Industry Association examines the importance of applied digital technologies.

Our new study, “Digital Competitiveness from a Global Perspective: Advanced Digitalisation in International Comparison,” prepared for the Bavarian Industry Association (vbw), addresses one of the defining questions for technological competitiveness in the years ahead:

Who can turn the power of digitalisation into real technological innovation?

We focus precisely on where the next generation of innovation is emerging: at the intersection of key digital technologies – AI, Big Data, Quantum Computing and other critical technologies – and their most important applications across industry, mobility, healthcare, energy and many other fields.

This is where the technological race will be decided.

This is not about AI for AI’s sake. It is not about digitalisation as a buzzword. And it is not about basic research alone. What matters is who actually uses digital technologies to create new and better products, processes and services.

Our patent analysis makes this critical intersection visible. We identify the strongest patents in the most important application technologies driven by key digital technologies – revealing which companies and countries are leading where digitalisation meets real-world application.

The defining question is: Who is leading at this intersection – and who is ahead in the global technology race?