Digital Economy

Digital transformation offers innumerable potentials for industry and society: It promotes innovation, revolutionizes business processes and models and changes our everyday work and social structures. The Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft is a pioneer and catalyst for this—and actively helps to shape this transformation. It develops digital technologies and solutions, accompanies the digital transformation through technology impact assessment and advises companies and government.

Artificial intelligence, machine learning, big data analytics and intelligent sensors are key technologies and drivers of the digital transformation in industry and society. Digital transformation is the engine that drives the innovative strength of the German economy. It enables more efficient processes and better and individualized product developments. Industry and society benefit, for example, from better work processes, time and cost savings, intelligent solutions in industrial production, transportation or health care as well as better access to information. The enhancement of physical products through digital services often requires additional sensors, new data models, secure infrastructures and intelligent analytic methods for data evaluation. The Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft plays a pivotal role in developing these central technologies. It brings together the research expertise and years of experience of its various Fraunhofer institutes to develop customized, intelligent and safe solutions for the needs of the digital economy, thereby fostering Germany's innovative strength. This enables Fraunhofer experts to provide the comprehensive support that people and companies need to exploit the potential of the digital transformation in a sustainable way.

For further information on the lead market for the digital economy, see the website of the Fraunhofer Big Data and Artificial Intelligence Alliance.