In this whitepaper, we articulate a vision for the evolution of Chainlink beyond its initial
conception in the original Chainlink whitepaper. We foresee an increasingly expansive role …

An analysis of some of the recent blockchain networks is presented to determine if they
satisfy Metcalfe's Law, as has been shown for some online social media networks. The value …

To date much of the entrepreneurial ecosystems literature treated ecosystems as confined
geographic locations with definitive boards. However, in the past decades, technological …

The scientific ecosystem relies on citation-based metrics that provide only imperfect,
inconsistent and easily manipulated measures of research quality. Here we describe …

The world's economy is becoming increasingly knowledge intensive. This will drive further
technological, societal and organisational change. A knowledge intensive economy gives …

The digital economy has aroused widespread concern. This paper studies the impact of the
digital economy on innovation using a panel threshold model. Taking 30 provinces …

The purpose of this chapter is to reflect on business models employed by online travel
service providers since the beginning of online travel until 2019. In lockstep with …

It is important to determine the network effects and store-of-value feature of cryptocurrencies
due to the argument that it could be considered as a new 'asset class'. Current studies on …

Based on provincial panel data of China from 2011 to 2019, this paper discusses the
influence and mechanism of the platform economy on the high-quality development of …

This paper demonstrates that bitcoin's medium-to long-term price follows Metcalfe's law.
Bitcoin is modeled as a token digital currency, a medium of exchange with no intrinsic value …