Today, around eighty per cent of the European population has a smartphone, personal computer or tablet to navigate the internet. We use the internet to perform many fundamental activities that influence our behaviour and productivity, such as communicating and searching for information. The rise of e-commerce is also having substantial, and at times disruptive, effects in many industries.
Digital innovations, such as big data and artificial intelligence, are used for medical diagnoses, in the transportation sector and to select the news that is reported on social media. The explosive growth of electronic devices controlled through the internet suggests that the “internet-of-things” will play an important role in our daily lives.