DIGINNO Business Needs Assessment

The overall aim of the DIGINNO project is to speed up the Baltic Sea Region’s (BSR) transition to a single digital market. More specifically three challenges are addressed: 1) uptake of information and communication technologies in the business sector; 2) innovation and interoperability of public services; and 3) cooperation and coordination of digital policies on the macro-regional level. The purpose of the Business Needs Assessment (BNA) is to give an overview of the State-of- the Art of challenge 1) and provide input for challenge 3). The BNA was performed with the following steps:

1. Identification of key technologies influencing the current digital disruption.
2. Selection of representative and important industries in the participating countries for the BNA.
3. A quantitative analysis of usage of the key technologies. The analysis is based on questionnaires rating the current and expected usage, in a five years perspective, of the different key technologies
4. A corresponding qualitative analysis of usage of the key technologies based on
interviews.
The analyses would reveal which of the investigated technologies were actually used in the selected industries representing key activities in DIGINNO partner countries. The assumption is that the analysis gives an indication of the usage of key digital technologies in the region and in the individual countries.