Successful Scale-Up Support for Start-Ups in Industrial Biotechnology: A Multiple Case Study on Scale-Up Support Ecosystems

Industrial biotechnology is labelled by the European Commission as one of the six key enabling technologies to fight climate change. Industrial biotechnology is a sector where biocatalysts (cells or enzymes) are used to convert renewable feedstocks (e.g. sugars) or even waste into valuable compounds such as renewable chemicals or food ...

Is data really the new oil?: An assessment of the viability of data marketplace business models

Data has often been stated to be “the new oil”. This is said because both oil and data can be very valuable but only after they have been pre-processed. Among other things, a challenge for creating value from data lies in realizing data exchange. This is what data marketplaces aim to do. The number of shutdowns of data marketplaces during the...

Establishing Business Ecosystems for Smart Living services: A case study on how to improve the robustness of the underlying networked Business Model

Smart Living falls under the broader rubric of Internet of Things (IoT) and is described as a residence with connected technologies that are able to anticipate and respond to occupants’ emotional, rational, social, economic, and physical needs. Because Smart Living services have a networked nature, collaboration between actors in the business...

Designing business model tooling for business model exploration: An experimental design for evaluation

Disruptive technologies drive enterprises to rethink how to create and capture value by revising their business models (BM). Even in cases that the need for BM innovation is clear, how entrepreneurs can do it and what they need to be changed it is not always obvious. That leads to the need for BM exploration. BM tooling can support this process,...

Business Model Development at the BoP: Creating a Business Model Canvas for the sub-Saharan African region & drawing on findings to develop suggestions for the Frugal Thermometer

The impact of digital transformation

Digital Transformation, Digital Technologies, Social, Mobile, Analytics, Cloud, Organizational Effects, Business Models, Business Model Canvas, Data-analysis, Survey. Many organizations nowadays feel pressured to change in order to meet customer demands and competitive pressure due to emerging digital technologies. When a combination of digital...

Serving the Poor: Designing a Mobile Service Platform for Smallholder Farmer Inclusion in Global Value Chains

The starting point for this research was the rapid proliferation of mobile devices, which had covered 95% of the world’s population by 2014. This research addresses the role of multi-sided mobile service platforms in improving the lives of smallholder farmers, who make up a large proportion of the world’s poor. The mobile phone has the potential...

A Business Model Framework for a “Big Data Analytics as a Service” Platform

Studies show that Data-Driven Decision-Making grounded on large “volumes” of a wide “variety” of data with high-“velocity”, known as Big Data, can considerably enhance the organizational performance. However, the traditional way of capturing, storing, and analyzing digital data through on-premise Business Intelligence (BI) and Analytics systems...

Dutch Electric Vehicle Innovation System