the socio-economics of digital ecosystems research: policy analysis and methodological tools from an...
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The Socio-Economics of Digital Ecosystems Research:Policy Analysis and Methodological Tools
from an Argentinean Case Study
Lorena Rivera León1, Rodrigo Kataishi2 and Paolo Dini1
(1) Department of Media and CommunicationsLondon School of Economics and Political Science
(2) Instituto de Industria, Universidad Nacional de General Sarmiento Buenos Aires, Argentina
Final Policy WorkshopLondon, 23-24 September 2010
Indicators, data, statistics
Smaller samples, greater reliance onqualitative research methods,non-equilibrium, complexity
Where does our (LSE + UNGS) work fitin the context of this workshop?
Policy
NationalSTI policy
Social capitalSocial capital
GovernanceGovernance
Multi-stakeholderprocesses
Multi-stakeholderprocesses ICTsICTs
Absorptioncapacity
Absorptioncapacity
ConnectivityConnectivity
Regionaldevelopment policy
(LSE, UNGS)
Overview Digital Ecosystems & critical reflections
Theory
Empirical data
Regional indicators
Policy visualisation tool
Rivera-León, L, Kataishi, R and Dini, P. The Socio-Economics of DigitalEcosystems Research: Policy Analysis and MethodologicalTools from an Argentinean Case Study, in Innovation Supportin Latin America and Europe: Theory, Practice and Policy inInnovation and Innovation Systems, selected papers fromthe 1st ISLAE Conference, Glasgow Caledonian University,3-4 December 2009, Ashgate. Forthcoming.
Digital Ecosystem as a ‘Value Stack’
Government ICT adoption policies for SMEs
Knowledge and collaborationlayer
SocialInteractions
Services:- any licensing model- B2B, B2C, etc
BusinessInteractions
AcademicResearch
AcademicResearch
DistributedOpen Source Infrastructure
(Public Good)
BusinessCollaboration: - OSS governance - Business modelling languages - StandardsEfficient & Reliable P2P Network
Distributed TransactionCoordination
Distributed AccountabilityIdentity and Trust
Privateinvestment
How do we critique this functionalist, normative, ‘mechanical’, technocentric, and Durkheim-nostalgic perspective ondevelopment and innovation?
Is there any room for the individual? Can DE research connect microto macro?
Is it just a systemic, structuralist, collectivist and creative responseto neo-liberalism?
How does DE research relate to modernity debates, Western or otherwise?
Questions
Has Foucault already begun to answer all these questions with his‘apparatus’ (‘dispositíf’)???
Empirical data (Rodrigo)
Theory (Paolo)
Policy design & implementation (Lorena & Rodrigo)
DE HypothesesDE Hypotheses
Hypotheses & Feedbacks
Digital Ecosystems Research Tries to ReconcilePolar Opposites: Meta-Epistemological Framework
Structuralist/Collectivist perspective Individualist perspective
(Giddens)
Rationalism perspective Empiricism perspective
(Popper)
Subjectivist perspective Objectivist perspective
(Giddens, Popper, Gadamer)
Symmetry perspective(cell metabolism, ontogeny)
Context dependence perspective(evolution, phylogeny)
(Holland, Kauffman)(Essentialism) (Existentialism)
Regional MaturityGrade: EU
New Methodology forDE Adoption Readiness: LAC
‘Evolution’ of Determinants for DE Adoption Readinessand DEs Hypotheses
Determinants of the ‘Successful’ Deployment ofCollaboration Networks through DEs
Production and Institutional Networks in Morón
Morón (ARG): Sectoral
Networks vs. theMetalworking
Network
Morón (ARG):Institutional
Networks(All surveyed and
2nd degree)
Mapping the Characteristics of a Set of Enterprisesin a Given Region
Policy Analysis Visualisation Tool(inverted variables)
Policy Mixes for Enterprises and Regions
Aggregate DE Readiness Indicators for Morón
(originalvariables)
(invertedvariables)
New Policy Indicators for Future Research?
Conclusions
The introduction of ‘new’ indicators that promise to be particularly effectiveis the consequence of applying a more uniformly self-consistentepistemology to the methods and methodologies used in SSHresearch that inform policy-making
DEs as an approach that considers technology adoption as a social process driven by social networking and collaboration provides a contextthat facilitates the exploration of possible responses to conflictingnormative requirements through a collective process guided byreflexive governance
In this paper we have introduced ‘formally’ network analysis and policyanalysis to DE research from a socio-economic perspective, withan interesting consequence:
The same policy analysis visualisation tool facilitates the optimisation ofpolicy mixes and recommendations at different levels: regional andmulti-regional level, cluster level, sector level, firm level