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The platform economy has experienced rapid growth, disrupting traditional business models and contributing significantly to the global economy. [2] Platform businesses are characterized by their reliance on network effects, where the platform's value increases as more users join. This has allowed many platform companies to scale quickly and ...
Platform capitalism is an economic and business model in which digital platforms play a central role in facilitating interactions, transactions, and services between different user groups, typically consumers and producers. This model of capitalism has emerged and expanded with the rise of the Internet and digital technologies, transforming ...
The concept of a digital platform is closely related to that of an ecosystem, referring to the population of actors that collaborate with the platform sponsor to co-create value. [11] From a systemic dimension, it is possible to identify four categories of actors characterizing the digital platform ecosystem: the platform sponsor, the platform ...
The framework of the Platform Canvas was first designed by Marcel Allweins in 2019, inspired by the earlier work of Dr. Ted Ladd on platform entrepreneurship. The final version of the canvas and its ideology was introduced in a conceptual paper, co-authored by Marcel Allweins, Markus Proesch and Ted Ladd and was first presented in January 2020 at the United States Association for Small ...
The term digital economy came into use during the early 1990s. For example, many academic papers were published by New York University’s Center for Digital Economy Research. The term was the title of Don Tapscott's 1995 book, The Digital Economy: Promise and Peril in the Age of Networked Intelligence.
In his report, NYC Council Member Brad Lander presented platform cooperativism as a model to help laborers in the digital economy. [68] [67] The US Department of Agriculture appeared to offer its support for the platform cooperativism movement with a feature story in the September/October 2016 issue of its magazine, Rural Cooperatives. [70]
Digitization has coincided with the increased prominence of platforms and marketplaces that connect diverse agents in social and economic activity. A platform is defined by Bresnahan and Greenstein (1999) [10] as "a reconfigurable base of compatible components on which users build applications". Platforms are most readily identified with their ...
A digital platform is a software-based online infrastructure that facilitates user interactions and transactions.. Digital platforms can act as data aggregators to help users navigate large amounts of information, as is the case with search engines; as matchmakers to enable transactions between users, as is the case with digital marketplaces; or as collaborative tools to support the ...