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Digital Competitiveness in the European Union Era: The Greek Case

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Laitsou, Eleni, Kargas, Antonios, Varoutas, Dimitris·2020·Economies
DOI 10.3390/economies8040085
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Digital competitiveness is gaining more and more attention as a source of competitive advantage at the business and national economies levels. Digital economy performance is a matter of national strategies for achieving economic growth and socioeconomic development. Widely accepted instruments for reporting progress in these areas have been recently developed, including the Digital Economy and Society Index (DESI index). The current study aims to use the DESI index and its five dimensions (namely Connectivity, Human Capital, Use of Internet Services, Integration of Digital Technology and Digital Public Services) not only as a tool for recognizing the current state, but also to forecast progress under the Greek economic environment. The Gompertz model was used as a methodological tool and it is valuable that a diffusion model has been implemented on a composite index related to countries’ digital competitiveness. Moreover, the results reveal the areas where convergencies and divergencies exist between Greece and the rest of the EU-28 member states, while forecast permits one to evaluate how current policies have a significant impact on digital competitiveness. Results indicate that Greece is facing significant challenges as a result of the low state of digitization, coming from both the demand side (businesses that consume internet services) and the offer side (institutional and governmental constraints). The proposed results could be used in order to readjust existing policies and to spot aspects where further improvement is needed to achieve high standards of digital competitiveness.

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Authors
Laitsou, E., Kargas, A., & Varoutas, D.
Affiliations
National and Kapodistrian University of Athens (GR)
Corresponding author
Varoutas, Dimitris
ORCID
Venue
Economies
Publisher
MDPI AG
Published
2020-10-15
Volume
8
Issue
4
Pages
85
ISSN
2227-7099 (ISSN-L)
DOI
10.3390/economies8040085
OpenAlex
W3093345774
Cited by
92
References
60
Citations by year
2026: 8 · 2025: 14 · 2024: 19 · 2023: 21 · 2022: 17 · 2021: 13
FWCI
13.59
Type
journal article
Language
en
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  • Economies (publishedVersion, cc-by)
  • RePEc: Research Papers in Economics (submittedVersion)
  • DOAJ (DOAJ: Directory of Open Access Journals) (submittedVersion, cc-by-sa)
  • Econstor (Econstor) (submittedVersion, cc-by)
Topics
  • Social Sciences › Business, Management and Accounting › Strategy and Management › Digital Economy and Transformation
  • Social Sciences › Economics, Econometrics and Finance › Economics and Econometrics › ICT Impact and Policies
  • Social Sciences › Business, Management and Accounting › Strategy and Management › Global Trade and Competitiveness
Keywords
digital competitiveness, Digital Economy and Society Index, Greece, Gompertz model, digital economy, digital public services, digital human capital, digital connectivity, digital integration, digital policy, EU-28 comparison

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