Industry Platforms and Ecosystem Innovation

Industry Platforms and Ecosystem Innovation

This article discusses how externally focused ?industry platforms? affect innovation. First, we define the term ?platform? and discuss why this concept is important. Second, we provide an overview of the relevant literature in order to clarify differences in the types of platforms and associated economic and strategic concepts. Third, we review the case of Intel and other examples to illustrate...

Strengthening the Humanitarian Innovation Ecosystem Humanitarian Innovation

3 THIS REPORT COMES AT a time when the international humanitarian community is facing unprecedented challenges that are growing in scale, scope and complexity. There is growing awareness of the need for transformational change in what humanitarian actors do and how they do it, to maintain relevance, reputation and impact. This report focuses on new and growing efforts to achieve such change thr...

A ground-up “Quaternary” innovation strategy for South Korea using entrepreneurial ecosystem platforms

This paper offers an account of the recent economic slowdown in the growth trajectory formerly enjoyed by South Korea as one of the first “Asian Tigers”. Indicators are provided that, unlike the others, Hong Kong, Singapore and Taiwan that have continued their upward profile, South Korea has stagnated. It is argued that the others and some more recent Asian growth economies have moved upwards t...

The IT Innovation Ecosystem

User Driven Service Design and Innovation Platforms

Integrating consumers into the design and development process of IT is a promising strategy for companies. To stimulate this co-production of IT through enduser programming specific user platforms for innovation have been developed. In this paper we illustrate how end-user programming and configurations has been a successful practice throughout the history of the PC – from the early stationary ...