A taxonomy of digital intensive sectors

Abstract

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Digital Dividend: Policies to Harness the Productivity Potential of Digital Technologies

“…This is especially important since business dynamism appears to have declined over the past decades across OECD countries (Decker et al, 2018[20]; Bijnens and Konings, 2018 [21]; Calvino, Criscuolo and Menon, 2015 [22]). Even though business dynamism is generally higher in digital intensive sectors, it has declined more in these sectors than in the rest of the economy (Calvino and Criscuolo, 2018 [10]).…”

Patterns of innovation, advanced technology use and business practices in Canadian firms

“…In the above-mentioned OECD work, R&D is the only criterion for partitioning industries, whereas technology can derive from channels other than R&D expenditure. In addition, this part of the analysis also complements recent OECD work (Calvino et al, 2018) on defining a taxonomy of digital intensive sectors based on several criteria covering purchases of ICT intermediates and capital goods, robot use, ICT specialists and online sales. Figure 3 examines average ATBP use factors by industries as a first step to identify sectoral patterns to ATBP adoption.…”

“…In this report, we compare alternative industry classification procedures according to technology usage patterns, rather than R&D intensity. In addition, such exploratory work on sectoral technology content can complement recent OECD work on classifying industries according to their level of digital intensity (Calvino et al, 2018).…”

Offshoring of services functions and labour market adjustments

“…While the literature often portrays deepening international division of labour in terms of slicing up the production process into everthinner slivers, which are traded as tasks, this study focuses on business functions. 9 The fact that statistical agencies have started to focus on business functions as a unit of measurement for analysing offshoring underscores its relevance. Clusters of complementary inputs form business functions that cannot easily be unbundled and the cost of doing so is often overlooked in both the current debate and the offshoring debate 10-20 years back (Lanz, Miroudot and Nordås, 2013[18]).…”

“…See (Fort, Pierce and Schott, 2018[38]) for a recent discussion using US data 9. The number of suppliers to large manufacturing firms indeed runs into their thousands, generating very complex value chains, giving rise to new services coined supply chain aggregators.…”