This technical report describes the development of a counter-unmanned aircraft system platform for sensor-data fusion and visualisation. The report outlines the design, implementation and integration of sensor inputs for the effective detection, identification and tracking of both cooperative...

The paper contributes to the further development of platform studies by looking at the early stages of development. It draws on insights from an exemplary research and innovation project that aimed to develop a "diversity-aware online social platform". The article takes a co- productive stance....

An impressive series of scandals and market crashes, including FTX, Celsius and Voyager, have shown the weaknesses of crypto-economy’s market infrastructures. Crypto-trading platforms have become dominant financial institutions, acting as trading venues, broker-dealers, and lenders at the same...

The rise of innovation-conscious consumers has led to record demand for products with innovative attributes, such as low-sugar foods and sun-protective clothing. This market trend presents a profit-growth opportunity for established companies, which have dominated the market based on traditional...

The most pressing debates in antitrust today center on major platforms like Amazon, Google, and Facebook. Platform markets are subject to strong network effects, which tend to create barriers to entry and reinforce market power. Frequently, the only way for a new platform to enter the market...

Consumer heterogeneity drives airlines to compete with each other through product lines, in the form of different flights and different ticket policies (e.g., change fee) on the same flight. Using ticket level data from a major Chinese online provider of travel services, we explore airlines'...

I study a vertically differentiated product market intermediated by a monopoly platform. A monopoly seller offers a low- and a high-quality product to consumers with heterogenous preferences to purchase through the platform rather than directly from the seller. Absent any restrictions imposed by...

We study an e-commerce platform’s incentive to enter the credit market and offer loans for vendors’ innovations. The platform earns from both its lending ac- tivity and fees collected on transactions in the marketplace. If the platform does not offer loans, it might find it convenient to...

This paper examines how to design the sustainable production line in the factories with minimum environmental impacts and maximum social benefits. For modeling, the literature review is carried out first and according to researches and papers, environmental and social factors are extracted and...

We develop a model that classifies platforms in the "creator economy"---e.g. Youtube, Patreon, and Twitch---into three broad business models: pure discovery mode (providing recommendations to help consumers search for creators); pure membership mode (enabling individual creators to monetize...

In der vorliegenden Studie wird untersucht, wie sich die Preise für FTTB/H- und gigabitfähige Breitbandkabelprodukte auf dem deutschen Markt im internationalen Vergleich einordnen, wie sich die angebotenen Produktportfolios unterscheiden und welche Muster sich aus der länderübergreifenden...

This article theoretically analyzes the effects of the platform liability for the third-party products on incentives of the third-party vendors to make efforts to produce safe products. For this purpose, I suppose that the platform behaves as a mere marketplace and does not screen vendors or...

In der vorliegenden Studie wird untersucht, wie sich die Preise für FTTB/H- und gigabitfähige Breitbandkabelprodukte auf dem deutschen Markt im internationalen Vergleich einordnen, wie sich die angebotenen Produktportfolios unterscheiden und welche Muster sich aus der länderübergreifenden...

The matter of digital platforms and their treatment in competition law have attracted much attention. Not only through investigations into Google, Face-book and Amazon, but also with the issuing of several reports. The antitrust debate surrounding digital platforms is huge and encompasses...

In this Discussion Paper, we focus our analysis on the Lattes Platform - a public initiative developed endogenously in the late 1990s which was very innovative - since it is a representative case of a scientific platform and is a paramount tool for the Brazilian scientific system. Although there...

Firms achieve their competitive advantage quickly through the concept framework of open innovation by integrating external inspiration with internal endowment when facing hyper-competition in the digital era. This paper deploys open innovation into building platform blocks by modular operators....

We develop an easy-to-implement programmed method for generating new product ideas from existing products. In this method, whose core is a compatibility matrix, each pair of components or each pair of attributes used in a new design is already part of one or more existing products produced by...

The purpose of this chapter is to understand how technology contributed to the emergence and evolution of modular production networks between 1980 and the present. In a modular production network, the activities needed to create a functioning system (for example, a personal computer) are...

Over the past few decades, the exploitation and utilization of wave energy have attracted increasing interest, and scholars from various countries have gradually focused on analyzing the composition of multiple wave energy converts arrays to utilize wave energy in an efficient, stable and...

Should platforms be held liable for the harms suffered by users? A two-sided platform enables interactions between firms and users. There are two types of firm: harmful and safe. Harmful firms impose larger costs on the users. If firms have deep pockets then platform liability is unnecessary....

We study the incentives from a two-sided platform to segment the market by providing personalized search results. In our environment, a monopolistic platform is in charge of matching sellers with buyers. Upon being matched, each pair of buyer and seller negotiate prices. If they choose to...