Overview
- Illuminates relevant and topical issues to different stakeholders and therefore shapes future research and policy debates
- An interdisciplinary approach draws on domains such as strategic management, innovation, governance, regulation, entrepreneurship, policy making
- Brings together macro to a meso level analysis to show how company strategies IoT diffusion and adoption, business models and governance come together for disruption and competitive advantage
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Table of contents (7 chapters)
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About this book
This book focuses on the Internet of Things (IoT). IoT has caught the imagination as a transformational technology that will positively impact a large and diverse array of socio-economic activities. This book explores this impact, beginning with a chapter highlighting the promises and complexities of the IoT. It then explores these in greater detail in subsequent chapters. The first of these chapters explores the patenting activity of leading companies and is followed by a discussion of the challenges faced by the growth of ‘unicorns’ within Europe. The fourth chapter outlines a methodology for determining when investments in IoT should occur and is followed by a discussion of how the data generated by IoT will change marketing related decisions. The scope and complexity of the regulatory and governance structures associated with the IoT are then explored in the sixth chapter. These issues are brought together in the final chapter, which identifies the opportunities and challenges emanating from the IoT and how these may be tackled.
This book will be valuable reading to academics working in the field of disruptive technology, innovation management, and technological change more broadly.
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
James A. Cunningham is Professor of Strategic Management at Northumbria University, Newcastle, UK. His research intersects the fields of strategic management, innovation and entrepreneurship. He has published papers in leading international journals such as Research Policy, Small Business Economics, R&D Management, Long Range Planning and the Journal of Technology Transfer among others.
Jason Whalley is Professor of Digital Economy at Northumbria University, Newcastle, UK. His research focuses on the telecommunications industry, exploring the interplay between regulation, technological change and market structure. He is the co-author with Peter Curwen of five books on mobile telecommunications, and editor of Digital Policy, Regulation & Governance.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: The Internet of Things Entrepreneurial Ecosystems
Book Subtitle: Challenges and Opportunities
Editors: James A. Cunningham, Jason Whalley
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-47364-8
Publisher: Palgrave Pivot Cham
eBook Packages: Business and Management, Business and Management (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2020
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-47363-1Published: 14 July 2020
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-47366-2Published: 14 July 2021
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-47364-8Published: 13 July 2020
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XV, 144
Number of Illustrations: 6 b/w illustrations, 1 illustrations in colour
Topics: Big Data/Analytics, Entrepreneurship