The global digital platform economy and the region

The information technology revolution (ITR) propelled a shift from the industrial age to the digital age. While in the industrial age it was easy to disentangle the distinctions between the city/region and the country based on proximity, in the digital age this is much harder. The digital age is cha...

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Published in:The Annals of regional science Vol. 70; no. 1; pp. 101 - 133
Main Author: Acs, Zoltan J.
Format: Journal Article
Language:English
Published: Berlin/Heidelberg Springer Berlin Heidelberg 01.02.2023
Springer Nature B.V
Subjects:
Age
Area planning & development
Cities
Cloud computing
Digital technology
Economics
Economics and Finance
Ecosystems
Entrepreneurs
Entrepreneurship
Environmental Economics
Geography
Information technology
Infrastructure
Internet
Knowledge
Landscape/Regional and Urban Planning
Microeconomics
Personal computers
Proximity
Regional development
Regional planning
Regional/Spatial Science
Regions
Search engines
Semiconductors
Smartphones
Special Issue Paper
Wireless communication systems
Wireless internet
L20
D23
M13
O33
D83
ISSN:0570-1864, 1432-0592
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Summary:The information technology revolution (ITR) propelled a shift from the industrial age to the digital age. While in the industrial age it was easy to disentangle the distinctions between the city/region and the country based on proximity, in the digital age this is much harder. The digital age is characterized by the rise of multisided platform organizations, their platform-based ecosystem and the digital technology infrastructure. This paper takes an ex post evolutionary perspective and examines the successful firms of the global digital platform economy and the regions that produced them. We explore the question of what cities played the most important role over the past 50 years covering five distinct technologies: semiconductors, the personal computer, the Internet and search engines, smartphones and wireless, and cloud computing and matchmakers. Successful city/regional development requires the management of both the regional entrepreneurial ecosystem and the platform-based ecosystem simultaneously.
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ISSN:0570-1864
1432-0592
DOI:10.1007/s00168-022-01154-6