No 2024/16 Not all twins are identical

the digital layer of “twin” transition market applications

Abstract

A twin (a joint green and digital) transition aims to facilitate achieving the Green Deal goals. The interplay between regional capabilities and twin transition market applications remains understudied. This research utilizes Large Language Models to analyze web texts of more than 600,000 German firms, assessing whether their products contribute to the twin transition. Our findings suggest while AI capabilities benefit the twin transition market applications, clean technological capabilities play a significant role only in highly specialized regions. To facilitate future research and informed policymaking, we provide open access to our developed dataset and AI tools (i.e., the TwinTransition Mapper).