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The Digital Platform Economy Index 2020

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Authors:
  1. László Szerb

    1. Faculty of Business and Economics, University of Pécs, Pécs, Hungary

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  2. Eva Somogyine Komlosi

    1. Faculty of Business & Economics, University of Pecs, Hosszúhetény, Hungary

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  3. Zoltan J. Acs

    1. Schar School of Policy and Government, George Mason University, Arlington, USA

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  4. Esteban Lafuente

    1. Department of Management, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Barcelona, Spain

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  5. Abraham K. Song

    1. Assistant Professor of Public Policy, Pepperdine University, Graduate School of Education and Psychology, Los Angeles, USA

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  • Includes 12 pillars that integrate the digital and the entrepreneurship ecosystems
  • Presents data for 116 countries and cluster analyses
  • Presents tailor-made policy suggestions for improving the digital and entrepreneurship

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Table of contents (6 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xiii
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  2. Introduction

    • László Szerb, Eva Somogyine Komlosi, Zoltan J. Acs, Esteban Lafuente, Abraham K. Song
    Pages 1-2

  3. The Concept of the Platform-Based Ecosystem: The Digital Platform Economy

    • László Szerb, Eva Somogyine Komlosi, Zoltan J. Acs, Esteban Lafuente, Abraham K. Song
    Pages 3-6

  4. From Concept to Measurement: The 12 Pillars and their Measurement

    • László Szerb, Eva Somogyine Komlosi, Zoltan J. Acs, Esteban Lafuente, Abraham K. Song
    Pages 7-18

  5. The Digital Platform Economy Index: Country Rankings and Clustering

    • László Szerb, Eva Somogyine Komlosi, Zoltan J. Acs, Esteban Lafuente, Abraham K. Song
    Pages 19-29

  6. Improving the Digital Platform Economy: Policy Suggestions

    • László Szerb, Eva Somogyine Komlosi, Zoltan J. Acs, Esteban Lafuente, Abraham K. Song
    Pages 31-47

  7. Summary and Conclusion

    • László Szerb, Eva Somogyine Komlosi, Zoltan J. Acs, Esteban Lafuente, Abraham K. Song
    Pages 49-50

  8. Back Matter

    Pages 51-70
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About this book

This book presents the 2020 Digital Platform Economy Index (DPE Index). The DPE Index integrates two separate but related literatures on ecosystems, namely, the digital ecosystem and the entrepreneurial ecosystem. This new framework situates digital entrepreneurship within the broader context of users, platforms, and institutions, such that two biotic entities (users and agents) actuate individual agency, and two abiotic components (digital infrastructure and digital platforms) form the external environment. The DPE Index framework includes 12 pillars that integrate the digital and the entrepreneurship ecosystems. Here, the authors report on the DPE Index, the four sub-indices, and the 12 pillar values for 116 countries as well as provide a cluster analysis based on the 12 pillars.

Authors and Affiliations

  • Faculty of Business and Economics, University of Pécs, Pécs, Hungary

    László Szerb

  • Faculty of Business & Economics, University of Pecs, Hosszúhetény, Hungary

    Eva Somogyine Komlosi

  • Schar School of Policy and Government, George Mason University, Arlington, USA

    Zoltan J. Acs

  • Department of Management, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Barcelona, Spain

    Esteban Lafuente

  • Assistant Professor of Public Policy, Pepperdine University, Graduate School of Education and Psychology, Los Angeles, USA

    Abraham K. Song

About the authors

Zoltan Acs is Professor of Management at the London School of Economics (UK), Professor at the Schar School of Policy and Government and Director of the Center for Entrepreneurship and Public Policy at George Mason University (Fairfax, VA, USA), and Founder and President of the Global Entrepreneurship and Development Institute (GEDI Institute, Washington, D.C., USA). He is also co-editor and founder of Small Business Economics (Springer), a leading entrepreneurship journal. He has published more than 200 articles in international scholarly journals and over 35 books.

 

László Szerb is University Professor at the Faculty of Business and Economics of the University of Pécs (Hungary). He is also the creator, along with Zoltan Acs, of the Global Entrepreneurship Index (GEI). His teaching and research focuses mainly on small business and entrepreneurship related subjects. He has published extensively in entrepreneurship topics including the determinants of entrepreneurship, competitiveness and performance.

 

Éva Somogyiné Komlósi is a Research Fellow in the MTA-PTE Innovation and Economic Growth Research Group at the University of Pécs (Hungary). Her main area of research is the investigation of the effects of institutional factors on entrepreneurship.

 

Esteban Lafuente is Professor in the Department of Management at the Polytechnic University of Catalonia (Barcelona, Spain). His also an Editor of Small Business Economics (Springer), a leading entrepreneurship journal. His research focuses on the economic analysis of organizations, with special emphasis on models of managerial economics and topics in applied econometrics. His research has been published in a variety of international journals. 

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: The Digital Platform Economy Index 2020

  • Authors: László Szerb, Eva Somogyine Komlosi, Zoltan J. Acs, Esteban Lafuente, Abraham K. Song

  • Series Title: SpringerBriefs in Economics

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-89651-5

  • Publisher: Springer Cham

  • eBook Packages: Economics and Finance, Economics and Finance (R0)

  • Copyright Information: The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2022

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-89650-8Published: 05 January 2022

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-89651-5Published: 03 January 2022

  • Series ISSN: 2191-5504

  • Series E-ISSN: 2191-5512

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XIII, 70

  • Topics: Economic Growth, Entrepreneurship, Institutional/Evolutionary Economics

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