This study employs the ‘benefit of the doubt’ method rooted in non-parametric techniques to evaluate the digital ecosystem of 116 countries for the year 2019. By scrutinizing the relative efficiency of countries’ digital ecosystem based on the Digital Platform Economy (DPE) index, the...

This book presents the 2020 Digital Platform Economy Index (DPE Index). The DPE Index integrates two separate but related literatures on ecosystems, namely, the digital ecosystem and the entrepreneurial ecosystem. This new framework situates digital entrepreneurship within the broader context of...

Chapter 1. Introduction -- Chapter 2. The concept of the platform-based ecosystem: The digital platform economy -- Chapter 3. From concept to measurement: The 12 pillars and their measurement -- Chapter 4. The Digital Platform Economy Index: Country rankings and clustering -- Chapter 5....

Digitalization transforms how entrepreneurs pursue opportunities. To understand this transformative impact on entrepreneurship, we present the Global Index of Digital Entrepreneurship Systems (GIDES), a composite indicator developed to assess the performance of the digital entrepreneurial...

1 Introduction: Entrepreneurial Ecosystems -- 2 Building Composite Indicators for Policy Optimization Purposes -- 3 World Technology Frontier: Directed Technical Change and the Relevance of the Entrepreneurial Ecosystem -- 4 The Entrepreneurship Paradox: The Role of the Entrepreneurial Ecosystem...