Value creation platforms

4 Industrial innovation platforms

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Industrial innovation platforms bring well-established platform concepts like the app store to the industrial space. One of the key enablers of this development is the Internet of Things, which, in essence, aims to connect the physical and digital world. For instance, manufacturers who connect their products to the Internet can give external companies access to their product data to enable third-party analysis or digital services. Ultimately, so-called smart, connected products open up many new possibilities for companies from the same industries, as well as adjacent industries, to ...

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