{"id":1790873,"date":"2026-05-19T07:50:03","date_gmt":"2026-05-19T04:50:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hellastoday.com\/news\/2026\/05\/19\/how-the-digital-sector-can-add-12-23-billion-euros-to-greek-economy-by-2035\/"},"modified":"2026-05-19T07:50:03","modified_gmt":"2026-05-19T04:50:03","slug":"how-the-digital-sector-can-add-12-23-billion-euros-to-greek-economy-by-2035","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hellastoday.com\/news\/2026\/05\/19\/how-the-digital-sector-can-add-12-23-billion-euros-to-greek-economy-by-2035\/","title":{"rendered":"How the digital sector can add 12-23 billion euros to Greek economy by 2035"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<h3>The technology sector could add between 12-23 billion euros to the Greek economy by 2035, boosting the country\u2019s much-needed productivity index and narrowing the gap with the EU.<\/h3>\n<p>The \u201cmagic lever\u201d to achieve this lies in digital investment and its evolution in relation to productivity over the decade to 2035, with software playing a central role. A key factor for success is the use of technology and its integration into the production process.<\/p>\n<h2>Two scenarios<\/h2>\n<p>According to a recent report by analysts at the National Bank of Greece, \u201ca tripling of software investment could close one quarter of the productivity gap with Europe.\u201d They further noted that \u201cproductivity is linked both to the overall level of digital assets and to their composition, with the share of software playing a decisive role.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>They outlined two scenarios for the evolution of digital investment and its impact on productivity over the next decade:<\/p>\n<p>Conservative scenario:\u00a0If digital investment maintains its current pace, productivity could increase by around 30% by 2035, narrowing part of the gap with the EU (from 55% to 47%) and adding approximately 12 billion euros to the Greek economy compared to the current digitalisation trend.<br \/>Ambitious scenario:\u00a0If digital investment accelerates by 40%, aiming to converge with the EU in terms of capital stock, the productivity gap could narrow to 41%, adding 23 billion euros to the economy by 2035. This target is considered realistic (reflecting investment&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.naftemporiki.gr\/english\/2111997\/how-the-digital-sector-can-add-12-23-billion-euros-to-greek-economy-by-2035\/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=how-the-digital-sector-can-add-12-23-billion-euros-to-greek-economy-by-2035\">\u0394\u0399\u0391\u0392\u0391\u03a3\u03a4\u0395 \u039f\u039b\u039f \u03a4\u039f \u0391\u03a1\u0398\u03a1\u039f \u0395\u0394\u03a9<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The technology sector could add between 12-23 billion euros to the Greek economy by 2035, boosting the country\u2019s much-needed productivity index and narrowing the gap with the EU. The \u201cmagic lever\u201d to achieve this lies in digital investment and its evolution in relation to productivity over the decade to 2035, with software playing a central [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1790874,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1790873","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","et-has-post-format-content","et_post_format-et-post-format-standard"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hellastoday.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1790873","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hellastoday.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hellastoday.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hellastoday.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hellastoday.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1790873"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hellastoday.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1790873\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hellastoday.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1790874"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hellastoday.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1790873"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hellastoday.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1790873"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hellastoday.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1790873"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}