KILIAN

I am a researcher and consultant for technology and innovation management, focusing on blockchain affordances and platform ecosystems, along with their business model characteristics. My motivation for decentralized platform ecosystems and digital business models, in particular, stems from my time in the group digitalization at the Volkswagen Group. There, I addressed the question of how asset-driven companies such as automotive manufacturers can maintain their competitive advantage in the digital age, especially when dealing with platform-based business models. In this context, the competitor is no longer just Daimler, BMW, or Toyota. Instead, the competitors and (additionally) partners are Uber, Apple, Google, Microsoft, and Amazon. In such integrated business and platform ecosystems, coopetition (cooperate & compete) constellations are formed, with a demand for data sovereignty and democratic platform governance to balance the ecosystem... To ground these ideas and to advance the..