Differentiation at the international level means to overcome industry, disciplinary and organisational boundaries in a systematic and targeted manner. This enables to foster new forms of interaction and partnerships between previously non-traditional knowledge senders and to generate new types of knowledge.
- “Apart from putting the user at the centre and enabling new players to enter traditional markets, the digital economy has the capacity to create entirely new markets.”
(Commissioner Carlos Moedas, The democratisation of innovation, Rome, 28 October 2015)
The speed and scale of digitalisation are accelerating and transforming the way companies design, develop and manufacture products, the way they deliver services, and the products and services themselves. It is enabling new innovation processes and new ways of doing business, introducing new cross-sector value chains and infrastructures.