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k constructs at various levels of aggregation – at the lowest level, an analysis of full-fledged social-ecological networks ( Fig. 1 and 3a ), and at the highest level, a compressed version in which social and ecological nodes were merged into one combined node ( Fig. 3d , see also section in Supplementary Information ...
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Ecosystem-Based Management NOAA’s IEA supports EBM For many years, NOAA has recognized the value and importance of moving towards Ecosystem-Based Management as an integrated way to meet the Agency’s missions and mandates. NOAA’s Integrated Ecosystem Assessment (IEA) program is developing and implementing a collaborativ...
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s trust marine resources in an ecosystem context. Ecosystem-Based Management is defined as: An integrated approach that incorporates the entire ecosystem, including humans, into resource management decisions, and is guided by an adaptive management approach. Continuum of Ecosystem-Based Management EBM integrates humans...
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An ecological perspective to master the complexities of the digital economy Download PDF Download PDF Subjects Evolutionary ecology Interdisciplinary studies Abstract Economic and social interactions are shifting to digital platforms which grow into vast ecosystems where user engagement creates value for members while ...
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s, including new technologies and volatile demands, through dynamic innovation in a decentralized decision-making setting. This renders digital platform ecosystems complex adaptive systems. Recognizing that natural ecosystems are a prime example of complex adaptive systems, we propose a systematic hierarchical framewor...
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cieties to natural ecosystems embedded in biomes, products to species, and technologies and elements of business strategy to the genetic makeup of a species. As digital platforms face heightened scrutiny about their socio-economic power and societal value, our approach contributes to the development of deeper understan...
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or multi stakeholder symbiotic evolution in digital innovation ecosystems Article Open access 02 July 2025 Diverse values of nature for sustainability Article Open access 09 August 2023 Quantifying disturbance effects on ecosystem services in a changing climate Article 05 March 2025 Introduction Rapid digitalisation of...
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e of economic, social, and other interactions such as e-commerce, mobility, and social organization. Such platforms can grow into vast ecosystems of multiple member groups who create, exchange, and consume value generated from the facilitated interactions. The remarkable success of the digital platform ecosystem busine...
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d dynamics of the two domains, nature and the digital economy 8 , 9 , 10 . Their principal structure and dynamics, together with the resulting patterns of their behaviour allow us to adopt the view of digital platform ecosystems as complex adaptive systems 11 . This provides a solid conceptual basis for a systematic li...
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hierarchies observed in nature and those found in digital economies. The framework includes five major levels—Micro, Meso, Macro, Mega, and Meta, which gives rise to a concise name, the 5 M Framework . Biological prototypes for Micro, Meso, Macro, and Mega levels are, respectively, genes, species, ecosystems, and biome...
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form an ecosystem that is hosted by a biome 23 . Interactions within and between these four levels lead to ecological and evolutionary dynamics, which we capture within an interaction-dedicated Meta level—a fifth level in our 5 M Framework. Correspondingly, we systematically identify analogies between processes and phe...
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hosting platform ecosystems at the Mega level—analogous to biomes, and interactions within and between these four levels at the Meta level (see Fig. 1 ). Fig. 1: The schematic structure of the 5 M Framework. Full size image The figure illustrates the hierarchy of the five levels of the 5 M Framework and the correspondi...
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ollectively form an ecosystem at the Macro level. Several ecosystems may co-exist in a biome, which is hosted at the Mega level. On the right-hand side is the digital economy depicted, in blue. Analogously to the genes found in nature, individual knowledge and technological components are located at the Micro level. A ...
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complementary components combine to co-create value. Digital platform ecosystems may co-exist with each other within a wider society. In both domains, individual components at the Mega level, i.e., biomes or wider societies form the total existence of these domains. Lastly, the white stripes in the figure illustrate th...
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tanding the complexities inherent to each domain. The logos and pictograms in this figure are used for illustrative purposes. Transferring concepts and tools from ecology to digital economy The digital economy has emerged only recently, hence the existing approaches for describing and understanding its complexities as ...
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nd tools between the natural and digital domains. Here we briefly discuss some candidate concepts and methodologies , which demonstrate the potential of our 5 M Framework to facilitate the identification of a variety of useful analogies. The criteria for their selection were their 1) accessibility for non-specialists i...
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conomic innovation through evolutionary dynamics The Micro level of the 5 M Framework enables the comparison of innovation to evolution for the context of the digital economy. Genetic elements, whose combined information determines a living organism, are compared to the underlying fundamentals of products offered by a ...
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altered the course of the evolutionary arms race. Open innovation models adopted by many digital platform ecosystems facilitate innovation within their ecosystems 25 , however, large established companies gravitate toward proven technological and business solutions, which reduces space for innovation. Furthermore, domi...
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the ‘resource’, i.e., potential clients, is low. This is akin to animals spending less time in resource-poor than in resource-rich patches, despite similar travelling time between patches. Policies can influence the metric optimized by a digital platform ecosystem through monetary or non-monetary instruments, steering ...
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the established utility theory in economics 31 . Theories of life history evolution explain how species optimize their traits to balance across existential processes. For example, the r/K selection theory stylizes the observation that species face a trade-off in the number of offspring they produce and the parental inv...
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tegies are two examples that illustrate how these insights can inspire a more comprehensive and realistic understanding of the business strategies adopted by platforms. At the macro level: understanding ecosystem complexity and dynamics The Macro level compares digital platform ecosystems to natural ecosystems. The foc...
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