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Exploiting Internet-of-Things: Platforms and Business Models

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Governing Business Systems

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Internet-of-Things (IoT) is expected to play a key role in the near future due to the possibility it shows to spur processes of economic growth by fostering differentiated business applications. To exploit several possibilities, firms need to define and adopt appropriate business models. By analyzing the case of FIWARE, we discuss which business models can be adopted by different actors involved in the development and usage of a cloud-based platform enabling IoT solutions. We show that such platform represents a general purpose technology, which allows innovative forms of division of labor among technology suppliers and technology users, with positive revenues for involved actors.

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  1. Department of Economics, University of Messina, via dei Verdi, 75, 98122, Messina, ME, Italy

    Tindara Abbate, Fabrizio Cesaroni & Maria Cristina Cinici

  2. Department of Engineering, University of Messina, Contrada di Dio, 1, 98166, Messina, Italy

    Massimo Villari

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  1. Professor of Management, University of Palermo and Business Systems Laboratory, Palermo and Avellino, Italy

    Gandolfo Dominici

  2. Professor of Management, University of Rome “Link Campus”, Naples, Italy

    Manlio Del Giudice

  3. Law and Economics of Productive Activities, Sapienza University of Rome, Rome, Italy

    Rosa Lombardi

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Abbate, T., Cesaroni, F., Cinici, M.C., Villari, M. (2018). Exploiting Internet-of-Things: Platforms and Business Models. In: Dominici, G., Del Giudice, M., Lombardi, R. (eds) Governing Business Systems. Springer Proceedings in Business and Economics. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-66036-3_6

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