Designing Data Spaces: The Ecosystem Approach to Competitive Advantage

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Description of Designing Data Spaces: The Ecosystem Approach to Competitive Advantage

This open access book provides a comprehensive view on data ecosystems and platform economics from methodical and technological foundations up to reports from practical implementations and applications in various industries.
To this end, the book is structured in four parts: Part I Foundations and Contexts provides a general overview about building, running, and governing data spaces and an introduction to the IDS and GAIA-X projects. Part II Data Space Technologies subsequently details various implementation aspects of IDS and GAIA-X, including eg data usage control, the usage of blockchain technologies, or semantic data integration and interoperability. Next, Part III describes various Use Cases and Data Ecosystems from various application areas such as agriculture, healthcare, industry, energy, and mobility. Part IV eventually offers an overview of several Solutions and Applications, eg including products and experiences from companies like Google, SAP, Huawei, T-Systems, Innopay and many more.