Abstract
Over the past 5 years, platforms have emerged as a key organizational concept, notably due to the ubiquity of digital. This chapter aims to: (1) analyse the key economic challenges related to the platform phenomenon and (2) review the current analytical approaches before (3) proposing an integrated approach to how platforms work in practice. The chapter then concludes with an exploration of the business and policy implications for innovation.
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This section is mainly based on the OECD note Online platforms: A practical approach to their Benefits and Policy Challenges—Project Outline, JTO34322267. 21–22 November 2017.
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This chapter builds on an early version of a working paper prepared by Ahmed Bounfour, visiting scholar to the OECD (DSTI) (2017/2018). It also builds on the GlobalInto Deliverable 2.3 DIGITALIZATION AND PLATFORM: ICT contribution and digital platform, 2019, by Ahmed Bounfour, Keung Oui Kim and Tran Ngoc Phung.
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Bounfour, A., Kim, K.O., Phung, T.N. (2022). Digital Platform Modelling: Delineating the Foundations of Their Business Models. In: Bounfour, A. (eds) Platforms and Artificial Intelligence . Progress in IS. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-90192-9_1
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