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Digital solutions transform the forest-based bioeconomy into a digital platform industry - A suggestion for a disruptive business model in the digital economy

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  • Watanabe, Chihiro
  • Naveed, Nasir
  • Neittaanmäki, Pekka

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With the notion that the transformation of the forest-based bioeconomy in recent years provides insightful suggestions not only on the bioeconomy, but on business innovation, this paper conducts an empirical analysis of the transformation and attempts to extract suggestions for a digital-solution-driven, disruptive business model in the digital economy.

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  • Watanabe, Chihiro & Naveed, Nasir & Neittaanmäki, Pekka, 2018. "Digital solutions transform the forest-based bioeconomy into a digital platform industry - A suggestion for a disruptive business model in the digital economy," Technology in Society, Elsevier, vol. 54(C), pages 168-188.
    • Handle: RePEc:eee:teinso:v:54:y:2018:i:c:p:168-188
    DOI: 10.1016/j.techsoc.2018.05.002
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