“…Indeed, the purpose of the ecosystem is to provide infrastructure, tools and vocabulary for independent entities (people, organisations, collaborations) to create new collaborations, utilising the already existing services from the ecosystem. This is in contrast to a common goal in related work (e.g., ECOLEAD (Rabelo, Gusmeroli, Arana, & Nagellen, 2006), CrossWork (Mehandjiev & Grefen, 2010)) for creating a shared space with a shared incentives of the members. In open service ecosystems the initiators of collaborations each have their private incentives and conflicts of interest are to be expected, and resolution of such conflicts need to be supported.…”