Digital Economy

Digital Economy is a multidisciplinary and phenomenon-driven research platform, focusing on the impacts of digital transformation on industry and society.

Research at the core of the digital transformation

Digital Economy provides an open research environment for exploring innovations enabled by new technologies and their effects on individuals, organisations, and society from various disciplinary perspectives.

At the heart of the research is the entire lifecycle of data and information: how knowledge is produced, collected, transferred, stored, analysed, managed, utilised in business, and protected. The research and development activities of the Digital Economy platform are primarily funded by external sources and carried out in collaboration with various stakeholders.

Research themes include, among others:

Artificial intelligence and machine learning in industry and decision-making
Smart industry, such as robotised logistics, resilient IoT, and sustainable automation
Data analytics in business and finance
Virtualisation
Development and utilisation of big data, open data and cloud services
MyData – data rights, ownership, ethics and regulation
Digital crowdsourcing platforms and ecosystems
Sensoring of the built environment and the use of space data
Intelligent and robust ICT of power systems and distribution

The Digital Economy platform acts as a bridge between research, technology, and society – providing knowledge, solutions, and new perspectives for managing and leveraging digital transformation.

The research platform receives support for the development of research and operations from a multidisciplinary Advisory Board, which brings together influential representatives from the business sector.