The Evolution of Knowledge Organization and the Emergence of a Platform for Innovation in the Car Industry

Abstract

The paper aims at explaining the changes in how economic actors and their organizations acquire and coordinate innovative and productive capabilities. Using the illustrative evidence from organizational change in the automobile industry in Piedmont over the last 50 years, the paper describes how transformations in the structure of interactions between firms are steered by changes in the pattern of specialization and differentiation in the capabilities and technological skills of economic actors. The system is characterized by the emergence of a platform for the coordination of productive and technological activities, which can be seen as a major change in the organization of innovation in the system.

Open Innovation for sustainable development goals: Learning from GoTo Group

“…MSPs also have peculiar pricing and revenue models. Since two or more sides are affected, the platform manager must deal with the pricing issue of whether and how much the different sides charge (Patrucco, 2014).…”

Multi-sided platforms

“…MSPs can lead to fundamental changes in markets and industries. Recent studies show how platform businesses have impacted specific industry structures and market interactions (Gawer and Cusumano 2014;Bresnahan and Greenstein 1999;Patrucco 2014). For instance, platforms like Didi, and OLA (ride hailing firms) have changed entire urban transportation industries across the globe.…”

Platform-based service innovation and system design: a literature review

“…Finally, the industry-specific context for platform transition has also been widely discussed (e.g. Nehme et al, 2015;Patrucco, 2014;Shibata and Kodama, 2015).…”