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Events

11.09.2019

16:00 Uhr - 17:30 Uhr | Weizenbaum Institute, Hardenbergstraße 32, 10623 Berlin, Room A104/A105

Prof. Dr. Günter Knieps: Internet of Things and the economics of operator platforms for smart networks

Online platforms providing intermediation services (e.g. Amazon, eBay) are to be differentiated from operator platforms organizing the new innovative markets for intelligent network services.

Of particular relevancy is the differentiation between the physical side of operator platforms as coordinators, aggregators and organizers of physical network services and its complementary virtual side based on real-time, adaptive and location-sensitive (big )data processing and transmission. Disruption of traditional network industries with the evolution towards smart network industries is concomitant with the emergence of innovative operator platforms providing a variety of innovative network services.

Challenging governance problems of contractual relationships among different actors arise. The problem solution competence of operator platforms (two-sided, multi-sided) is the entrepreneurial search for the required governance structures. The problem of division of labor between all-IP broadband network providers, virtual network service providers and platform operators arises concomitant with the implementation of adequate governance structures.

Prof. Dr. Günter Knieps, Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg