The research line investigates how digital technologies and related innovations hold a transformative impact on all sectors, on policy making, on society and, ultimately, on human beings, with a focus on how digitalization and deep tech can allow to tackle the “grand challenges” ahead of us.

The research specifically targets:

• emerging trends in digital technologies, infrastructures and applications;
• sector-specific and process-specific impacts of digital innovation;
• new strategic, entrepreneurial, organizational and innovation models and approaches enabled and/or required by digital innovation.