Book chapter published in 'Innovations for Metropolitan Areas'
A book chapter written together with my co-author Anne Faber from TU Munich has been published in an edited book by Springer.
The chapter "Building the City’s Business Networks: Using Visualisations for Business Ecosystem Governance" summarizes frindings from our cooperative research. We are thankful to the Editors, Patrick Planing, Patrick Müller, Payam Dehdari, and Thomas Bäumer, for getting us into the book.
Abstract
Metropolitan regions today cultivate business ecosystems fostering city competitiveness and urban development. In these urban ecosystems, firms, public authorities and other stakeholders form business networks to collaborate and innovate.
Our research concerns the visualisation of urban business ecosystems with the aim of designing management instruments for city management and ecosystem governance. In this chapter, we review previous action design research where we applied a visual analytic system to facilitate ecosystem modelling and analysis. Our conceptual insights led us to formulate design requirements for management instruments in the urban ecosystem context. Our short review highlights findings with respect to visualising urban ecosystems on the basis of ecosystem models and identifies which capabilities remain missing for designing actionable management instruments for ecosystem governance.
