Digitalisation means the conversion of analogue values into digital formats and their processing or storage in a digital technical system. Digitalisation generates digital data. This data can be used, processed, stored, and copied via IT systems. Digitalisation leads to new products, processes, business models, infrastructures, possibilities for action and user behaviour. New legal topics are also emerging.
Research at the University of Liechtenstein focuses on the challenges, opportunities and effects of digitalisation on organisations, industries, society and the region.
- The role and significance of digital information and communication systems for innovation and transformation processes in the economy, the financial services sector, in companies and in organisational and leadership cultures.
- The impact of digitalisation on various areas of law, legal professions and established legal norms
- The role and significance of digitalisation for crafts and circular construction
Innovation means the initiation, creation and implementation of novel, creative, purposeful processes, practices, services, products, or business models. The prerequisite is a transparent, participative, self-reflective, and learning organisational culture that continuously observes, interprets, and takes into account societal challenges and megatrends. Research at the University of Liechtenstein focuses on the role of innovations in organisations on the one hand and on the role of innovations for the transformation into a sustainable society on the other.
- The role of (digital) innovations for the economy and society, as well as products and processes in companies, markets, and organisations.
- Innovation as a basis for funding and consultation by the responsible regulator (sandbox models, "innovation nodes")
- The entrepreneurial handling of innovation to sustainably secure the competitiveness of companies and organisations
- The legal protection or classification of new innovative processes and practices
- Architecture and spatial planning as drivers of regional and global innovations for transformation into a sustainable society