Twin transitions of decarbonisation and digitalisation: A historical perspective on energy and information in European economies

Fouquet, Roger; Hippe, Ralph

doi:10.1016/j.erss.2022.102736

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“…Digitalisation and "Greening": Towards Sustainable Development Though to different degrees, all economies are undergoing a major structural transformation towards "digitalisation" and "greening' [29,30]. "Digitalisation" is about the increasing role of digital technologies, which have features of general-purpose technologies that are applied in all economic and societal activities [8].…”

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“Digitalisation” and “Greening” as Components of Technology Upgrading and Sustainable Economic Performance

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This paper explores the pace and direction of technological development by using a technology upgrade conceptual and measurement framework. This approach is applied to a sample of 164 economies worldwide between 2002 and 2019. Within the framework of technology upgrading, the paper focuses on digitalisation and “greening” as its two significant structural features. We explore their relationship with different components of technology upgrading and the relationship between technology upgrading components and different indicators of macroeconomic productivity. We have adopted a longitudinal fixed effects regression method with control for unobserved heterogeneity, clustered standard errors, and time dummies. Our results show that the growth of research and development (R&D) capabilities does not translate into aggregate productivity growth. There is a lack of unconditional relationship between aggregate productivity growth, digitalisation and greening. However, there are “latecomer advantages” to basic digitalisation for lower middle- and low-income economies and “latecomer liabilities” in the greening of the economy for upper-middle-income economies. In addition, levels of digitalisation and greening do not correlate, suggesting these two transformation processes are not yet integrated into ‘ICT-assisted greening’. When we control for income levels, the impact of components of technology upgrading on productivity is isolated to specific components and significant only for some income groups. The absence of a significant simultaneous effects of several components of technology upgrading on productivity points to large transformation failures. We conclude that the role of science and technology systems in spurring sustainable development would require a broad scope for science and technology (S&T) policies, their coordination, and integration with non-innovation policies.

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“Digitalisation” and “Greening” as Components of Technology Upgrading and Sustainable Economic Performance

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“…They can create more sustainable recycling and resilient systems that combine human ingenuity, technological advancements in recycling, and sustainable practices to address environmental challenges, increase recycling efficiency, promote social equity, and drive economic prosperity [74,147,174,179]. It is predicted that if low carbon energy technologies align themselves with information and communications technologies and become part of a recycling group, there is an increased prospect that the next industrial revolution will be 'smart and green' [177,185]. Figure 27 shows the objective-transition from Industry 4.0 to Industry 5.0, to futuristic Industry 6.0.…”

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Progress in Sustainable Recycling and Circular Economy of Tungsten Carbide Hard Metal Scraps for Industry 5.0 and Onwards

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In spite of the critical environmental impacts of mining and the associated geopolitical supply risk, the strategic importance of rare metal tungsten is escalated by rapid expansions in industrialization, particularly in the ongoing low-carbon/energy era, which requires technologies that allow an economic, social, and ecologically friendly tungsten recovery from primary and secondary resources. The current recycling practices of tungsten carbide (WC)-based scraps have been accepted as economically and partially environmentally beneficial and can promote tungsten closed-loop recycling; however, low functional recycling rates and significant metal losses at varied stages hinder the economic recovery of metals. The current review presents the global situation of tungsten and WC flow with a focus on various sustainable methods to recycle spent tungsten and related metals. A detailed discussion of establishing a highly resilient circular economy with sustainable development goals is highlighted by juxtaposing the philosophy of the circular economy, integrated sustainability, and the metal life cycle approach. The article also discusses Industry 5.0 trends, such as sustainable digitalization and twin transition, to overcome the barriers associated with achieving efficient circular recycling. It is shown that cross-disciplinary methodologies, the integration of diverse technologies (digital/green), and the incorporation of state-of-the-art recycling techniques open up the future potential in the recycling sector.

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“…FRENKEN, 2022). This may indicate a potential for more platform companies to act towards sustainability and become important vectors of the twin transition (green and digital) 17 (FERREIRA et al, 2022;FOUQUET;HIPPE, 2022). If this is the case, this "market" of sustainability-oriented platform companies deserves special attention and perhaps even public policies that promote its development and viability.…”

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The Brazilian digital platform economy: a first approach

Neto¹,

Chiarini²,

Ribeiro³

2022

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The digital platform economy has grown in the past decade and has caught the attention of policy-makers and scholars. There is evidence in the literature that this new configuration of economic activities has implications for the sovereignty of data produced within a national frontier, market concentration, competition patterns, and data privacy. Despite this relevance, empirical knowledge about the landscape of digital platforms and their main features is still scant. In general, a few cases of digital platforms draw public and scholarly attention. The lack of empirical knowledge about what constitutes, in fact, the platform economy is worrying, mainly due to the regulatory advances that have been proposed in the world and followed by Brazil. In this study, our goal is to provide a descriptive overview of the digital platform economy in Brazil by assessing aggregate characteristics of digital platform companies founded in the country, such as geographic distribution, sector and source of financing. Using Crunchbase data, we found 556 digital platform firms, demonstrating that the Brazilian national private sector followed the global trend of developing digital platforms. The gross majority of them are small companies concentrated in the “commerce and shopping” sector and centralized in the South and Southeast regions, whose epicentre is São Paulo metropolitan area.

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Twin transitions of decarbonisation and digitalisation: A historical perspective on energy and information in European economies

Cited by 44 publications

References 83 publications

“Digitalisation” and “Greening” as Components of Technology Upgrading and Sustainable Economic Performance

“Digitalisation” and “Greening” as Components of Technology Upgrading and Sustainable Economic Performance

Progress in Sustainable Recycling and Circular Economy of Tungsten Carbide Hard Metal Scraps for Industry 5.0 and Onwards

The Brazilian digital platform economy: a first approach

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