•T  he need to adapt existing occupations and to create new trades will continually be identified and implemented with input from experience in the field. We are currently in discussions with management and employee representatives regarding creation of a new occupation: the e-commerce officer. Highly qualifed personnel is the essential basis for innovative capability and the competitiveness of our economy. Universities are the nucleus of digital innovation. Our goals. •P  romote the establishment of additional academic chairs and strengthen the available excellence institutions in the MINT areas, and in particular in information science, for example in the areas of Big Data analysis, industrial software and IT security. To this end we encourage stronger cooperation with business, for example by means of third-party financing and foundations. • I nformation systems, data analysis and the Internet as interdisciplinary areas of study should be included in other majors – especially in the business schools and in law, political science and social science disciplines. Scientific-technical capability must be coupled with economic-political evaluation and regulation competencies. Just as digitising a company is no longer the job of the IT department and, on a macroeconomic level, no longer a topic of the IT sector, digitisation must also break down the boundaries between the disciplines at universities. •O  ur programmes for funding business formations at the universities (EXIST) must be expanded in order to introduce top-level know-how to business and to make it available in Germany and in Europe. •O  nline offers such as Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) should be better integrated into university studies in the future. E-learning should be a meaningful addition to presence in the classroom, in the sense of blended learning.