Current and Emerging Trends in Disruptive Technologies: Implications for the Present and Future of EU's Trade Policy

A Study for the European Parliament, EP/EXPO/B/INTA/2017/06, September 2017.; ISBN: 978-92-846-1693-0

41 Pages Posted: 1 Nov 2017

Date Written: October 19, 2017

Abstract

Digital technologies, taken as a broad generic category of technological inventions and applications, fall under a rare kind of ‘disruptive technologies’ that can radically change existing economic sectors, enable new modes of work, production and consumption and trigger broader societal transformations. To make apt policy decisions, there is a distinct need to understand what these technologies and their effects actually are and how they may develop over time. This study attends to this need in particular with regard to the implications of digital technologies for EU’s external trade policies. It accentuates the critical importance of data and cross-border data flows for the emergent digital economy and underscores the need to appropriately address them with a calibrated and more proactive positioning of the EU in international trade venues.

Note: The study is available on the EP website also in German, French and Spanish.

Keywords: digital trade, EU, WTO

Suggested Citation

Burri, Mira, Current and Emerging Trends in Disruptive Technologies: Implications for the Present and Future of EU's Trade Policy (October 19, 2017). A Study for the European Parliament, EP/EXPO/B/INTA/2017/06, September 2017.; ISBN: 978-92-846-1693-0, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3055708

Mira Burri (Contact Author)

University of Lucerne ( email )

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PO Box 4466
Lucerne, 6002
Switzerland

HOME PAGE: http://www.unilu.ch/mira-burri

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