Towards Sustainable Ecosystems

Abstract

Within knowledge-oriented, digital-enabled economies and open societies cities as communities, governments, businesses and people cooperate to co-create value and develop innovation for sustainable growth. Digital business ecosystems should enable value creation and development. Technology opens new opportunities for knowledge sharing and value creation and stresses the concept of business and digital ecosystem. Information and communication technology supports sustainability and provides a platform for designing and implementing sustainable development within the society. Smart cities as communities, small and medium-sized enterprises as companies developing innovation and governments going digital contribute to designing sustainable digital ecosystems. People, businesses, cities, communities and public organizations should contribute to co-creating value within society. Within digital business ecosystems cities, communities, governments' agencies, businesses, civil society and people interact directly by promoting new ways for sustainable and responsible development.

Economics of Digital Ecosystems

“…Sustainability is the ability of a DES to change and adapt to the conditions of the outside environment as a whole as well as to continue operating during changes to the members or their respective roles. The sustainability of a DES is based on the possibility of flexible changes to the structure of the ecosystem, the continuous interaction of members and their collaboration and cooperation [41]. The cooperation is considered by [42] in terms of the willingness of citizens to collaborate.…”

Hacia un modelo de ecosistema sostenible

“…Los ecosistemas han cobrado un gran impulso en la teoría y la práctica empresarial de la última década (Spigel y Harrison 2018;Theodoraki et al, 2018;Volkmann et al, 2021), especialmente en el campo del emprendimiento (Audretsch y Belitski, 2017;Theodoraki et al, 2018). También se han aplicado a ámbitos como los clusters (Spigel y Harrison, 2018), la innovación empresarial (Xie y Wang, 2020), el desarrollo urbano (Wirtz y Volkmann, 2015) y la sostenibilidad (Palumbo et al, 2021;Romanelli, 2018).…”

“…Por otro lado, en la última década los ecosistemas empresariales han cobrado una gran atención en la teoría y la práctica (Spigel y Harrison, 2018;Romanelli, 2018;Palumbo et al, 2021), especialmente en los campos del emprendimiento por su papel para la creación y el crecimiento empresarial (Stam, 2015), de la innovación empresarial (Xie y Wang, 2020), así como del desarrollo urbano sostenible (Wirtz y Volkmann, 2015) y la sostenibilidad (Palumbo et al, 2021;Romanelli, 2018). Con el auge de la sostenibilidad de los últimos años, se ha popularizado el concepto de ecosistema empresarial sostenible tras considerar que las acciones individuales y cooperativas entre los diferentes actores que los integran -comunidades, gobiernos, empresas, etc.-pueden crear valor para la sociedad y entorno en los que actúan (Romanelli, 2018). De modo que, los ecosistemas empresariales tienen un papel clave para avanzar hacia un desarrollo sostenible local gracias al papel interdependiente, individual y conjunto de los actores que los forman y que determinan su comportamiento, funcionamiento y evolución.…”

Organizing knowledge transfer between university and agribusiness firms

“…Some alternatives widely discussed in literature have an internal perspective (Osterloh & Frey, 2000), whereas others have an external perspective such as interorganizational collaboration (Franco & Pinho, 2019;Jarillo, 1988;Kanter, 1989;Santoro & Gopalakrishnan, 2000). Urbanizations, globalizations and need of sustainability have generated a growing need to overcome organizational boundaries with the aim of safeguarding their own growth and survival (D'Aveni & Gunther, 1995;Romanelli, 2018). For this reason, focusing on interorganizational collaborations, several studies highlight the complementarity among organizations that have distinct but mutually synergistic resources necessary to advance new knowledge (Rajapathirana & Hui, 2018;Teece, 1987).…”