The study “New technologies and digitisation: opportunities and challenges for the social economy and social enterprises” sets out to explore how the rising importance of the social economy in Europe is facing the challenges of digital transformation. It focuses on whether, why, how, and to what...
The Study “Big Data and B2B platforms: the next big opportunity for Europe”, commissioned by the European Commission and the Executive Agency for Small and Medium-sized Enterprises (EASME) aimed to analyse how to accelerate the growth of the data-based economy and to support the development of B...
Monitoring economic conditions in real time, or nowcasting, is among the key tasks routinely performed by economists. Nowcasting entails some key challenges, which also characterise modern Big Data analytics, often referred to as the three "Vs": the large number of time series continuously relea...
This document presents the contributions discussed at the second institutional workshop on Artificial Intelligence (AI), organized by the Joint Research Centre (JRC) of the European Commission. This workshop was held on 05th July 2019 at the premises of the JRC in Ispra (Italy), with video-confe...
The financial and macroeconomic worlds are nowadays experiencing structural changes due to the availability of large amount of unstructured data, also know as Big Data. The Big Data and Forecasting of Economic Developments project (bigNOMICS) of the Centre for Advanced Studies of the European Co...
This study analyses online job advertisements collected by Cedefop in a pan-European approach. The main objective of the study is to develop estimator(s) for the number of job vacancies from data on online job advertisements taking into account the differences in the statistical unit and coverag...
This publication has been prepared by the interagency TVET group on Skill mismatch in digitised labour markets, to support experts and policymakers who wish to engage in discussion on the potential of web-based big data for skills policy. It outlines how such data can be used to mitigate labour ...
Data processing has historically been at the very core of the business of insurance undertakings, which is rooted strongly in data-led statistical analysis. Data has always been collected and processed to inform underwriting decisions, price policies, settle claims and prevent fraud. There has l...
The objective of the international country reports is to explore the technology and policy landscape of selected non-European countries. Country performance in advanced technologies is presented based on patent, trade and investment data. The reports provide also a concise and informative review...
The JRC‘s Centre for Advanced Studies (CAS) was created in 2016 to help improve and bridge the interface between science and policy in order to enhance the JRC‘s capacity to better inform and influence the regulatory frameworks needed to address the new and emerging societal challenges confronti...