For a period starting in 2015, Apple, Google, and Microsoft became the most valuable
companies in the world. Each was marked by an external developer ecosystem …

It has been argued that platform technology owners cocreate business value with other firms
in their platform ecosystems by encouraging complementary invention and exploiting …

This paper brings together the recent literature on industry platforms and shows how it
relates to managing innovation within and outside the firm as well as to dealing with …

We study how platform owners' decision to enter complementary markets affects innovation
in the ecosystem surrounding the platform. Despite heated debates on the behavior of …

This book is about ecosystem mechanics and how to generate revenue through ecosystems
and partnerships in the software industry. Topics include: economic foundations, value …

We study the phenomenon of business ecosystems in which platform firms orchestrate the
functioning of ecosystems by providing platforms and setting the rules for participation by …

Research Summary Companies sponsor platform ecosystems as an open innovation
strategy to encourage complementors to develop complementary products, services, or …

This paper studies two fundamentally distinct approaches to opening a technology platform
and their different impacts on innovation. One approach is to grant access to a platform and …

Since Teece's seminal paper explaining who were the gainers from technological
innovation, increased globalization and the information and communication technology …

Platform-based technology ecosystems are new forms of organizing independent actors'
innovations around a stable product system. This collective organization is proving superior …