A. 2 Knowledge-intensive business services and robots (Chapter 2)

Growing intersectoral linkages between manufacturing and services have contributed to the “blurring of traditional sectoral boundaries” (Berardino and Onesti 2018) in which the role of each sector in the production of goods is increasingly difficult to disentangle. Measuring how services, particularly knowledge- intensive ones, contribute to the production of manufactured goods is not easy. It requires the use of specific indicators capable of isolating their contribution. An approach used extensively in the literature relies on the use of input–output-based measures to identify and quantify the intersectoral linkages between manufacturing and services.

Sustainable Development Goals:

Decent Work and Economic Growth

Industry, Innovation and Infrastructure