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Investigación
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Digital innovation ecosystems and their size: Evidence on a parallel development regime
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Fecha
9 de Noviembre de 2009
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Lugar
Barcelona: C-103, Barcelona
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Horario
12:30 to 14:00
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Descripción
Digital innovation ecosystems -social networking sites, user-generated content sites and software/computing systems, etc.- are organizations whose large pools of peripheral contributors are essential to value creation and innovation. Do larger ecosystems, with more peripheral contributors, foster more contributions and innovation? Theory suggests the effect could go either way, and should depend on how distributed innovation at the periphery is structured. Here I study a case in which peripheral innovators are organized in parallel to develop mix-and-matchable components. I use a unique point-of-sale database on pools of software developer firms clustered around mobile computing platforms (1999-2004). At the aggregate-level, I find that adding more contributors to an already large ecosystem caused a reduction in contributions. At the individual contributor-level, I find it was contributors developing software of the same genre that caused the negative effect. These localized negative effects within the same genre are concurrent to positive effects of adding contributors more generally. These countervailing effects highlight a need for more precise characterization of the economic and sociological effects set into motion by changing ecosystem size. Further, the findings indicate considerable challenges for focal actors at the core of an ecosystem who attempt to structure and manage the periphery.
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Coordinador
Professor Marco Tortoriello
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Ponente
Kevin Boudreau
(London Business School)
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Organizador
División de Investigación
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Contacto
Silvia Jiménez
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