Digital Skills and Their Relevance to the COVID-19 Innovative Responses in the European Union

Digital Skills and Their Relevance to the COVID-19 Innovative Responses in the European Union

Copyright: © 2021 |Pages: 13
DOI: 10.4018/IJIDE.2021070104
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Abstract

COVID-19 has caused strong restrictions in the activities of companies and people in the European Union. Its effects are not restricted to the public health field, but also include the economic and social dimensions. To face this wide range of challenges, government entities, companies, and civil society have sought to develop innovative solutions to cope with the effects posed by COVID-19. This study aims to explore these innovative initiatives using the observatory of public sector innovation (OPSI) framework and intends to understand the effects of digital skills of citizens and companies in the emergence of these initiatives. The findings reveal that the proposed innovative solutions result essentially from incremental innovation projects and are promoted by government entities at national and local levels. Nevertheless, the relevance of the participation of companies and civil society in these innovative initiatives is also highlighted. Finally, the digital competencies of each EU state member do not appear to influence the countries' capacity to offer innovative solutions.
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2. Literature Review

The accelerated transformations that have occurred in recent decades have influenced technological and scientific development on a large scale. In this dynamic, a constant motivation for innovative alternatives emerges, introducing new technologies and modifying the market in certain ways such as services, labor relations, digital economy, among others (Graham et al., 2017; Satalkina & Steiner, 2020). With the advent of information technologies, there have been drastic changes in all industrial fields, changing the globalized production process. This set of changes establishes a new paradigm called the knowledge economy, in which knowledge is valued in the organizational dynamics aiming at the sustainability of organizations (Rezny et al., 2019).

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