Esko Kilpi writes in his blog about emergence of the platform company – and about the logics which are also behind the Urban Mill Open Innovation Platform development:

Gap between network-economy companies and traditional asset leverage driven companies is widening

”The effects of Moore’s law on the growth of the ICT industry and computing are well known. A lesser-known but potentially more weighty law is starting to replace Moore’s law in strategic influence. Metcalfe’s law states that the cost of a network expands linearly with increases in the size of the network, but the value of the network increases exponentially.

When this is combined with Moore’s law, we are in a world where at the same time as the value of the network goes up with its size, the average costs of technology are falling. This is one of the most important business drivers today. The implication is that there is an ever-widening gap between network-economy companies and those driven by traditional asset leverage models. Traditional business economics focus on economies of scale derived from the capital base of the company, which tends to scale linearly.”

A platform company should be as open, as accessible and as supportive as possible, to as many users as possible

”What used to be called “public goods” is today called “platforms”. A new form of a company is being born! Lue loppuun →