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Table 3 Types of interactions in the business ecosystem (Ma et al. 2021)

From: Digitalisation potentials in the electricity ecosystem: lesson learnt from the comparison between Germany and Denmark

Type of interaction

Description

Goods (Product & Service)

The basic products of an economic system that consist of tangible consumable items (products) and tasks performed by individuals (service).

Monetary value

The amount of value an item or a service has if it was sold for cash to a buyer

Data

Data that has been processed, organised, structured or presented to make it useful in a given context

Information

Raw, unorganised measurements and facts that need to be processed to become useful

Intangible value

Something that exists but cannot be exactly described, or given an exact value.