Dimension | Measure | Description |
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Robustness | Survival rates | Ecosystem participants enjoy high survival rates, either over time, or relative to other, comparable ecosystems |
Persistence of ecosystem structure | Changes in the relationships among ecosystem members are contained; overall the structure of the ecosystem is unaffected by external shocks. Most connections between firms or between technologies remain | |
Predictability | Change in ecosystem structure is not only contained, it is predictably localized. The locus of change to ecosystem structure will differ for different shocks, but a predictable “core” will generally remain unaffected | |
Limited obsolescence | There is no dramatic abandonment of “obsolete” capacity in response to a perturbation. Most of the installed base or investment in technology or components finds continued use after dramatic changes in the ecosystems environment | |
Continuity of use experience and use cases | The experience of consumers of an ecosystem’s products will gradually evolve in response to the introduction of new technologies rather than being radically transformed. Existing capabilities and tools will be leveraged to perform new operations enabled by new technologies | |
Productivity | Total factor productivity | Leveraging techniques used in traditional economic productivity analysis, ecosystems may be compared by the productivity of their participants in converting factors of production into useful work |
Productivity improvement over time | Do the members of the ecosystem and those who use its products show increases in productivity measures over time? Are they able to produce the same products or complete the same tasks at progressively lower cost? | |
Delivery of innovations | Does the ecosystem effectively deliver new technologies, processes, or ideas to its members? Does it lower the costs of employing these novelties, as compared with adopting them directly, and propagate access to them widely throughout the ecosystem in ways that improve the classical productivity of ecosystem members? | |
Niche creation | Variety | The number of new options, technological building blocks, categories, products, and/ or businesses being created within the ecosystem in a given period of time |
Value creation | The overall value of new options created |