Aloys Nghiem from the International Energy Agency contributed to the section “IoT firm creation and venture capital investment” in Chapter 3 and Tiago Cravo Oliveira Hashiguchi from the Health Division in the OECD Directorate for Employment, Labour and Social Affairs contributed to the section on the results from the case study on the IoT in healthcare in Chapter 5. Martin Lundborg, from the Wissenschaftliches Institut für Infrastruktur und Kommunikationsdienste (WIK), consultant to the OECD, carried out the analysis of manufacturing firms in Germany in Chapter 4.
The authors owe much to the support and co-operation of Brazil’s Regional Center for Studies on the Development of the Information Society (Cetic.br), in particular Alexandre Barbosa, Fabio Senne and Leonardo Mele Lins, who carried out the analysis of manufacturing firms in Brazil in Chapter 4.
The authors thank the Australian Bureau of Statistics, Statistics Austria, Statistics Canada, Statistics Sweden, INSEE (France), the Israel Central Bureau of Statistics and Eurostat for their precious help and support in providing specific data and ad hoc tabulations in the section “Complementarity between the IoT and other technologies” in Chapter 2.
The authors also thank Elise Lafond, from STMicroelectronics, for providing insights and data related to World Semiconductor Trade Statistics (WSTS) in the Chapter 3 section “IoT-relevant semiconductor industry trends”.
The authors are grateful to Eleonore Morena for editing this report and to Andreia Furtado and Angela Gosmann for editorial and publishing support. The overall quality of this report benefited significantly from their engagement.