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    Prominent industry platforms are, for instance, Apple’s App Store, Facebook’s Facebook Platform (social networking services), and Google’s Google Cloud Platform (for Internet search services, YouTube etc.).

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    Action design research is an ‘agile’ research method for software engineering that fuses technical design with application and use aspects.

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    BEEx is available online at ecosystem‐explorer.in.tum.de.

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Rehm, SV., Faber, A. (2020). Building the City’s Business Networks: Using Visualisations for Business Ecosystem Governance. In: Planing, P., Müller, P., Dehdari, P., Bäumer, T. (eds) Innovations for Metropolitan Areas. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-60806-7_19

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