countries will therefore see their export baskets develop and reflect these changes the current evidence points to the fact that technological change has been mainly routinebiased which means it reduces the demand for employment in routine activities manual and complex tasks on the other hand have benefitted from innovation however the evidence collected in wto d also points to the fact that digital technologies increasingly touch upon a wider set of activities and push demand towards highskilled labour in addition by substituting labour to some extent digital technologies are also considered to be capitalbiased as the discussion surrounding the falling labour income share in the report shows as a result highskilled digitalintensive products are mainly exported by economies that have high levels of capital and educational attainment