Ecosystem Edge

Meyer, Arnoud Cyriel Leo De; Williamson, Peter J.

doi:10.1515/9781503611863

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“…The 2000s unleashed a wave of technological excitement, with digitalization increasingly delivering on its promise, customers moving online, and "monetization" the word on everyone's lips. During this phase, a new generation of "ecosystem plays" symbolized new ways to organize in the digital economy (Jacobides et al, 2018;De Meyer and Williamson, 2020). By the mid-2010s, bolstered by stronger technology, platforms linking consumers and producers became hot properties in their own right.…”

Section: The Dawn Of a New Worldmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Significant shifts were noticeable throughout the economy, with researchers extolling the merits of the transformation (Petit and Teece, 2021). From eBay in auctions to Amazon in e-commerce, from Booking.com and Expedia.com in travel to Uber and Lyft in ride-hailing, firms saw opportunities to rethink how sectors were structured, forging a fresh set of organizational principles that became ever more pervasive (Williamson and De Meyer, 2020;Adner, forth. 2021).…”

Section: The Dawn Of a New Worldmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Regulating platforms and ecosystems: an introduction

Jacobides

Lianos²

2021

Industrial and Corporate Change

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Digital technologies and modular production methods have led to the emergence of a new generation of global leaders which cement their market position by orchestrating digital platforms and ecosystems of complementors, which offer them new ways to create and capture value that often transcend the boundaries of existing sectors. Their business models, built on intangibles such as software code and access to data, support expansion that is both breathtakingly rapid and effectively costless. With capital markets all too willing to invest in these firms’ growth, and regulators unable to rein them in, these firms have been able to accumulate unprecedented power and wealth, with profound implications for competition, the economy, and society itself. This special issue confronts the challenge of regulating platforms and ecosystems head-on, revisiting the economic, strategic, and legal foundations that enable us to detect and redress issues of dominance and competition and address questions of the appropriate conception of and limits of the law. The papers included cover topics including the true nature of competition with an emphasis on dynamics and innovation, new approaches for legal and economic analysis including the alternatives for the “welfare criterion” and the protection of sunk investments, the approaches to take on tech mergers and acquisitions, the virtues and limits of self-regulation, the potential for radical breakups of Big Tech, and the issues of data, when privacy protection and competition steer us in different directions. Contributors also weigh up the case for regulatory intervention, the practical challenges involved, and the future state that we hope such actions will bring about.

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Section: The Dawn Of a New Worldmentioning

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Section: The Dawn Of a New Worldmentioning

confidence: 99%

Regulating platforms and ecosystems: an introduction

Jacobides

Lianos²

2021

Industrial and Corporate Change

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Europe’s Scaleup Geography and the Role of Access to Talent

Cséfalvay

2024

Knowledge and Space

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Although the concept of the ecosystem for entrepreneurs and startups dominates the discourse on promoting innovation, the geographical pattern of cities with startups remains largely uncharted territory. This study’s author first gives an overview of this concept’s roots in regional sciences and then outlines the contours of Europe’s scaleup geography by analyzing data on 12,500 scaleups (startups that raised more than 1 million euros) at the municipal level. Performance is marked by a strong West-East and North-South divide, and most scaleups and funding concentrate in a handful of cities. One may assume some convergence, however, from the upstream of locally available talent, especially in university towns. The study’s author concludes that scaleup ecosystems in Europe have only developed into a self-reinforcing system in a few cities. Although they have become self-sustaining in a multitude of Western and Northern European cities, large cities in Southern Europe and Central and Eastern Europe lag behind, not least because of the weak upstream of university talent.

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