Towards Systematic Development of Trans-sector Digital Innovations

Digital Information Networks (DINs) connect all economic and societal sectors, bringing within reach all kinds of novel trans-sector digital innovations: innovations involving multiple sectors enabled by DINs. This paper describes a framework to conceptualise novel trans-sector digital innovations. Our motivation for this work is to systematise...

Unravelling 21st Century Riddles – Universal Network Visions from a Human Perspective

Networks are omnipresent and universal. Mankind, for example, forms a social network. Today, information and communications technology (ICT) exponentially accelerates the interaction between the human nodes of this global social network. In that way, ICT appears to evoke a phase transformation, similar to the physical phase transitions of a...