Foreword

The OECD 2016 Ministerial Declaration mandates the OECD to develop metrics to measure the effects of the adoption of Internet of Things (IoT) solutions in different policy areas, such as economic growth, employment and education needs.

Measuring the Internet of Things provides new evidence on how the IoT – the inter-networking of the physical devices and objects whose state can be altered via the Internet – is diffusing in OECD countries. It also analyses the effects of the IoT on productivity based on two case studies on manufacturing firms in Brazil and Germany.

The report was prepared by Pierre Montagnier, Lucia Russo and Vincenzo Spiezia, under the supervision of Audrey Plonk, Head of the Digital Economy Policy Division in the OECD Directorate for Science, Technology and Innovation.

The OECD Committee on Digital Economy Policy (CDEP) declassified Measuring the Internet of Things on 1 March 2023 by written procedure. The OECD Secretariat prepared it for publication.

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