Regional mapping of ICT specialization and adoption of industry 4.0 technologies in Greece

IF 5.9 2区管理学 Q1 COMMUNICATION

Telecommunications Policy Pub Date : 2025-01-06 DOI:10.1016/j.telpol.2024.102903

Dimitrios Stamopoulos , Petros Dimas , Evangelos Siokas , Aggelos Tsakanikas

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Abstract

The aim of this paper is to provide a mapping of business ICT specialization and adoption of novel digital production technologies across Greek regions. In addition, it aims to preliminarily investigate whether these aspects are associated with regional economic performance. We develop specialization indicators of each region's ICT activities and economic performance using NUTS3 level data and combine them with regional firm-level data regarding the adoption of Industry 4.0 technologies from a large-scale field survey of 1014 industrial firms. Our findings add a novel geographical scope to the ongoing discussion regarding the digital transformation of the Greek economy, highlighting the ICT specialization asymmetries and different digital technology adoption rates between a cluster of highly specialized and connected metropolitan regions and the rest of the mostly rural regions. The results provide preliminary input regarding the importance of region-level characteristics, which are remarkably absent and must be considered in the ongoing national ICT policy discussion.

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希腊信息通信技术专业化和工业4.0技术采用的区域地图

本文的目的是为希腊各地区提供商业ICT专业化和采用新型数字生产技术的映射。此外，本文旨在初步探讨这些方面是否与区域经济绩效相关。我们使用NUTS3级别的数据制定了每个地区ICT活动和经济绩效的专业化指标，并将其与来自1014家工业企业的大规模实地调查的关于采用工业4.0技术的区域企业级别数据相结合。我们的研究结果为正在进行的关于希腊经济数字化转型的讨论增加了一个新的地理范围，突出了高度专业化和互联的大都市地区与其他大部分农村地区之间的ICT专业化不对称和不同的数字技术采用率。这些结果提供了关于区域一级特征重要性的初步投入，这些特征明显不存在，必须在正在进行的国家信息和通信技术政策讨论中加以考虑。

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来源期刊

Telecommunications Policy 工程技术-电信学

CiteScore

10.80

自引率

12.50%

发文量

122

审稿时长

38 days

期刊介绍： Telecommunications Policy is concerned with the impact of digitalization in the economy and society. The journal is multidisciplinary, encompassing conceptual, theoretical and empirical studies, quantitative as well as qualitative. The scope includes policy, regulation, and governance; big data, artificial intelligence and data science; new and traditional sectors encompassing new media and the platform economy; management, entrepreneurship, innovation and use. Contributions may explore these topics at national, regional and international levels, including issues confronting both developed and developing countries. The papers accepted by the journal meet high standards of analytical rigor and policy relevance.