Innovation platforms are emerging as new means to coordinate innovation exploiting the organizational opportunities opened up by technological innovation in ICTs and the Internet. At the same time, the innovation platform is itself an organizational innovation much diffused and adopted in the ICTs and Internet industry, for example by platform leaders such as Cisco, Microsoft, and Google. As a matter of fact, the growth of innovation platforms across a range of industrial sectors, with new ICTs and the Internet at the forefront, recently has attracted the attention of numerous studies of industrial economics and innovation economics, which have investigated the nature of these structures and how they influence the evolution of industrial sectors and innovation processes. It is now acknowledged that the emergence of platforms has a profound impact on industrial dynamics, creating new forms of competition and laying the foundations for the creation of new relations of inter-organisational cooperation in the framework of innovation processes. This essay traces the emergence of innovation platforms as both a result of technological innovation produced by the ICTs and Internet industry and as an organizational innovation much adopted in the same sector to achieve and sustain competitive position and growth of the players.
ORGANIZATIONAL CHANGE, TECHNOLOGICAL INNOVATION AND THE INTERNET: THE CASE OF PLATFORMS
ANTONELLI, Cristiano;PATRUCCO, Pier Paolo
2013-01-01
Abstract
Innovation platforms are emerging as new means to coordinate innovation exploiting the organizational opportunities opened up by technological innovation in ICTs and the Internet. At the same time, the innovation platform is itself an organizational innovation much diffused and adopted in the ICTs and Internet industry, for example by platform leaders such as Cisco, Microsoft, and Google. As a matter of fact, the growth of innovation platforms across a range of industrial sectors, with new ICTs and the Internet at the forefront, recently has attracted the attention of numerous studies of industrial economics and innovation economics, which have investigated the nature of these structures and how they influence the evolution of industrial sectors and innovation processes. It is now acknowledged that the emergence of platforms has a profound impact on industrial dynamics, creating new forms of competition and laying the foundations for the creation of new relations of inter-organisational cooperation in the framework of innovation processes. This essay traces the emergence of innovation platforms as both a result of technological innovation produced by the ICTs and Internet industry and as an organizational innovation much adopted in the same sector to achieve and sustain competitive position and growth of the players.
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