MaCCI Investigates Policy Options for a Regulatory Framework for the Digital Economy for the German Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy

Apart from independent research projects, one of MaCCI’s tasks and goals is also to provide expert opinions for policymakers. In the next two years, MaCCI is going to show and evaluate policy options for a regulatory framework for the digital economy in a project that was recently commissioned by Germany’s Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy (BMWi). The project will deal with the digital economy in the strict sense, i.e. the provision of digital infrastructure, content and services, and with the digitalization of other sectors of the economy. Based on a meta study that surveys the current state of the digital economy, the project partners will look at different aspects more in depth in several studies. These will be discussed in workshops with stakeholders from business, science, and politics. The project team consists of seven MaCCI members as well as Prof. Dr. Heike Schweitzer (Free University of Berlin) and Prof. Dr. Jan Krämer (University of Passau).