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The worldwide extraordinary level of interest in digital information networks' deployment among nations is due to the strong perception that they bring economic, social and environmental value. Our literature review on studies aiming at clarifying the value of information networks, led us to conclude that these studies take speculative, elusive or limited conclusions. We identify the requirements to capture the value of information networks and indicate a possible theoretical ground to account for it. Based upon this, we propose a framework operationalized with data from Eurostat. Furthermore, we identify the added-value of our framework with a precise and comprehensive comparison with two state of the art reference frameworks. We demonstrate that our framework provides significant conceptual addedvalue and, more fundamentally, allows for traditional measures of economic value (e.g. productivity and growth), as well as for other measures of value (e.g. social and environmental). Finally, we demonstrate with examples the wider application range of our framework in comparison with existing work.

Abstract-Digital Information Networks (DINs) connect all economic and societal sectors, bringing within reach all kinds of novel trans-sector digital innovations: innovations involving multiple sectors enabled by DINs. This paper describes a framework to conceptualise novel trans-sector digital innovations. Our motivation for this work is to systematise the development of DIN enabled innovations across different sectors. This work fits in an emerging scientific field labelled by some as services science, an interdisciplinary new area of study to address the challenge of becoming more systematic about services innovation. We demonstrate the applicability of our framework by mapping it to 20 trans-sector digital innovation ideas. Primarily, this works aims at telecommunication service providers looking for new revenue streams and IT service developers. With this work, the maverick vision of industrialising the development of trans-sector digital innovations comes within reach.