Trade in services and digital trade across borders has rapidly grown in recent years, providing key drivers to the UK economy. However, measurement, classification and definitional challenges have come to characterise the nature of available evidence, driving the need for further research in this space.
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This question was published as part of the set of ARIs in this document:
This Digital Economy (DE) Network Plus will deliver a vibrant community that will position the UK as the internationally leading research hub for Digitally Enhanced Advanced Services. Rather than focus on the product or ...
Funded by: EPSRC
Lead research organisation: UNIVERSITY OF EXETER
The project partially answers the question by discussing the impact of changes in technology on firm productivity, but does not specifically address the tradability of different services, the cost of trade in services, or the ways in which services are traded.
FinTech refers to a wide range of ways in which new technologies are being used to deliver financial services, often delivered by start-up firms rather than established financial services firms such as banks. This projec...
Funded by: ESRC
Lead research organisation: University of Essex
The project partially answers the question by examining barriers to and enablers of trade in FinTech and FinTech-enabled services, but does not specifically address the impact of changes in technology on the tradability of different services, the cost of trade in services, or the ways in which services are traded.
As outlined in the Government's White Paper on the Industrial Strategy, and its Digital Strategy, the world is becoming increasingly digitalised, and digital connectivity has rapidly become an essential requirement for t...
Funded by: ESRC
Lead research organisation: London School of Economics and Political Science
The project does not answer the question as it focuses on investigating technology-driven growth in the UK, rather than the impact of changes in technology on the tradability of different services, the cost of trade in services, or the ways in which services are traded.