The sciences of the artificial (3rd ed.)
The sciences of the artificial (3rd ed.)
Platform Leadership
Shifting Innovation to Users via Toolkits
Management Science
Product platform design and customization: Status and promise
Artificial Intelligence for Engineering Design, Analysis and Manufacturing - SPECIAL ISSUE: Platform product development for mass customization
Wikinomics: How Mass Collaboration Changes Everything
Wikinomics: How Mass Collaboration Changes Everything
Distributed Innovation in Classes of Networks
HICSS '08 Proceedings of the Proceedings of the 41st Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences
Innovation At and Across Multiple Levels of Analysis
Organization Science
Challenges of implementing innovation contests to facilitate radical innovation
International Journal of Networking and Virtual Organisations
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Firms seeking to satisfy customer needs should not only rely on internal but also external sources of innovations for the development of their products and services. Consequently, they need to shift their centralised business approaches by adopting the paradigm of open innovation and the concept of platforms to harness the value of innovation networks. The aim of this paper is to examine the nature of platforms and how their adoption can stimulate external contributions of third-party developers. Based on the analysis which illustrated three platform adoption examples from Apple, Facebook and Twitter it is found that a platform approach and its four main elements (components, knowledge, processes and people) affect the entire innovation network and its two dimension of translations. It is also found that each of the three firms applied its own particular strategy while adopting the four main platform elements to suit its own innovation networks.