Modeling a business ecosystem: An agent-based simulation

A business ecosystem is a network of suppliers and customers around a core technology, who depend on each other for their success and survival. In this paper we present a simple agent-based model of a business ecosystem. This includes a conceptualization of the model, a specification of the model and a small series of experiments to investigate the influence of network structure on the diffusion of innovations. Based on those experiments, propositions are derived that will be used in further research to conceptualize, specify and test a more advanced version of the model.

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