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This report documents a blockchain application developed for the energy sector that enables distributed market coordination for decentralized energy systems. As its core element, it utilizes Ethereum-based smart contracts to facilitate market matching between individual producers and consumers...
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This report documents a blockchain application developed for the real estate sector. The application enables distributed workflow management in a complicated transaction process: the selling of a share of stocks in a housing corporation. As its core element, the application utilizes...
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The industrial internet has been described as a new industrial revolution, a significant re-shaper of markets and a global impetus for growth. Finland is looking for new growth opportunities and competitive edge in the industrial internet. The Prime Minister’s Office has identified it as one...
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In this report we present the definition for a digital platform. We also define what kinds for characteristics and features are associated with platforms and the platform economy. This report provides background information for policy-makers on digital platforms. It also serves as an...
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We analyze 51 medium-sized manufacturing industry companies identified by Ali-Yrkkö and Rouvinen in their earlier research in 2015. Currently, out of these 51 companies with a staff of 250–499 employees in 2013, none are using digital platforms for business network management. It is typical...
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The majority of digital platform research has focused on consumer-centric platforms. Driven by the vast growth potential of direct consumer market access, industrial communities locked behind the conventional gatekeepers in their respective value chains have lately started to tinker with their...
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In the long-run, innovation performance has weakened somewhat in German small and me-dium enterprises (SMEs). In …&D). In order to remove the innovation barriers in these SMEs, public policy may play an important role. The empirical … analysis reveals that less R&D-oriented SMEs are indeed more likely to face a number of constraints in their innovation …
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Eine moderne und zukunftsgewandte Mittelstandspolitik bedarf einer überzeugenden Begründung. Die traditionelle Orientierung am Prinzip des Nachteilsausgleichs reicht hierfür nicht mehr aus. Denn aus Sicht der Mittelstandsforschung lassen sich größenbedingte Benachteiligungen von kleinen und...
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Kleine Handwerksunternehmen innovieren anders als große Industrieunternehmen. Das implizite Erfahrungswissen der einzelnen handwerklichen Könner bildet für diese Betriebe die zentrale Innovationsgrundlage. Da sich Handwerker solches Wissen vorwiegend im Zuge partizipativer und interaktiver...
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Der vorliegende Beitrag geht der Frage nach, wie der anhaltende Trend zur Akademisierung der Berufswelt im Hinblick auf die Innovationsfähigkeit von kleinen und mittleren Unternehmen (KMU) zu bewerten ist. Die Ergebnisse machen deutlich, dass die duale Berufsausbildung und darauf aufbauende...
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