Appendix B: The inner workings of a digital platform for data-driven innovation
Platforms for data-driven innovation are built in various ways. In this appendix, we provide an illustrative example. The descriptions do not purport to illustrate what happens on the supply and demand sides. Instead, the focus is on the inner workings of data with the platform and on the client’s perspective.
The starting point occurs in two places. From the client’s perspective, the mission is set up by feeding criteria into the platform using a selection of parameters purposefully designed to cover input required for the selection and matching process. For the start-up, the starting point occurs when it enters the system through one of the sourcing mechanisms ...
