Abstract
Digitalization offers both opportunities and challenges. As digital information can be accessed everywhere, the choice of location for industries, businesses and workers becomes more flexible. However, there are concerns that economic development will concentrate in certain areas, mainly in metropolitan cities as the better developed digital infrastructure and already existing innovation hubs can be found there. On top, ongoing megatrends such as the urbanisation and the rise of the creative class that mainly settles in cities make it even more likely that only certain areas profit from the digitalisation. In this sense, digitalisation could lead to further social and regional disparities and could possibly deepen the existing divide between urban and rural areas.
Keywords: Digitalization, Rural
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