Beyond interoperability to digital ecosystems: regional innovation and socio-economic development led by SMEs

Beyond interoperability to digital ecosystems: regional innovation and socio- economic development led by SMEs

This paper shows the early results of new research on how the Digital Ecosystems can promote new modes of sustainable e-business practices, for small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs), using an open architecture for content sharing and B2B interactions in the knowledge economy, and within a framework of open standards. The current e-Business practices and technologies do not always encourage ...

Factors Affecting Regional SMEs Progression to Digital Business Ecosystems

SMEs are widely recognized as an important driving force of economic growth, yet, their uptake of ICT is still very low. To support SMEs ICT adoption and to foster regional development, in 2000, the Lisbon Strategy on the Information Society and Knowledge-based economy created a vision for 2010 towards the creation of the European Digital Business Ecosystems (DBE). This paper is positioned with...

WP 11: Bridging Digital Ecosystems Research to Regional Development and Innovation in the Knowledge Economy

Regional Development and Socio-economic Diversity in Romania

During the economic and political changes that took place in Europe and in Romania after 1989, it was imposed and also made important steps in the foundation of a new concept and a new regional development policy. Regional development policy in Romania is now an important component of the Government Program.

Collaboration Networks for Innovation and Socio-economic Development: European and Latin American Perspectives on Digital Ecosystems Research, Local Readiness, Deployment Strategies and Their Policy Implications

International cooperation and knowledge transfer among countries has become increasingly important in the last decades, giving opportunity to a set of multiple interaction programs particularly amongst developed and developing regions. This paper discusses the feasibility of the adoption of Digital Ecosystems (DEs) in the Latin American context, based on the experience of deployment of DEs in t...