Toward Ecosystemic Business Models in the Context of Industrial Internet

Purpose: This study explores business models within a particular domain of Industrial Internet. Design/Methodology/Approach: Building from theory, this study is conceptual in nature. Findings: This paper presents a business model framework for understanding the dynamics of value co-creation and co-capture from lifecycle and ecosystem configuration point of view. Research limitations/implications: This study stresses the need to understand how the integrated, co-dependent processes of value co-creation and co-capture influence on business models of individual firms in co-evolving business ecosystems. Practical implications: To fully benefit from the mutually connected opportunities enabled by IoT, it is important for firms to position themselves within the ecosystem in terms of the stage of product or service life cycle as well as the scale and scope of ecosystem configuration. Originality/value: The originality of this research thus relates to expanding the business model literature from ecosystemic perspective.

DEWI-Wirelessly into the future

Euromicro Conference on Digital System Design (DSD2015), EPDSD - 3rd European Projects in Digital System Design, Funchal, Portugal.The ARTEMIS/ECSEL project DEWI (Dependable Embedded Wireless Infrastructure) focusses on the area of wireless sensor / actuator networks and wireless com-munication. With its four industrial domains (Aero-nautics, Automotive, Rail, and Building) and 21 clearly industry-driven use cases / applications, DEWI will pro-vide and demonstrate key solutions for wireless seamless connectivity and interoperability in smart cities and infra-structures, by considering everyday physical environ-ments of citizens in buildings, cars, trains and aeroplanes. It will add clear cross-domain benefits in terms of re-usability of technological building bricks and architecture, processes and methods. DEWI currently is one of the largest funded European R&D projects, comprising 58 renowned industrial and research partners from 11 Euro-pean countries. (For further details see www.dewi-project.eu