Digital Disruption of Industry

Public description of the goals at the beginning of the project

Digital Disruption of Industry studies the impacts of digitalization to the Finnish society through the lens of the industry. Its multidisciplinary consortium is excellently qualified for this task. We will provide a comprehensive analysis of the roadmaps and impacts of the digitalization to industry itself, its ecosystem partners and stakeholders, and the relevant institutions such as business practices and models, regulation, management, and governance. We will also study the changes which are needed in human activities, institutions, and operations to benefit from the digital disruption. For this, we work closely with the relevant stakeholders in concrete interventions. We will also engage in close interaction with stakeholders, policy makers, thought leaders, and general public to synthesise policies and interventions that maintain resilience and sustainability to exploit the disruption maximally and ensure stakeholders' access to skills and competences required.

Public description of the results at the end of the project

Digitalisation is a primary factor chancing society that already has transformed many sectors and people’s everyday life. Digital Disruption of Industry consortium studies the impacts of digitalization to the Finnish society through the lens of the industry. It covers the theme from a multidisciplinary viewpoint and at several levels of granularity from general themes to specific developments. At the general level key results of the work include research in the diffusion of disruptive technologies, business models and ecosystems for platform economy, knowledge-based management, and the role of users and consumers. At the level of specific technologies and domains, the work has focused on disruptive themes such as 5th generation networks, blockchains, AI and machine learning, and digital twins. A theme crossing all these topics is the role of exploiting and sharing data across actors and fields. Based on the work, we have synthesized policy recommendations and interventions in co-operation with various stakeholders, domain specialists and general public.