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PDW: Platforms and Ecosystems: New Perspectives for the Scope of the Firm in the Age of Open Innovation 

Dear Colleagues,

We are organizing a professional development workshop (PDW) on Platforms and Ecosystems: New Perspectives for the Scope of the Firm in the Age of Open Innovation, which we believe might be relevant to scholars investigating the boundaries of the firm, inter-firm relationships and collaboration, open innovation, and competitive dynamics. The topics that will be addressed in this PDW include:

• The role of economic complementarity and technical interdependency in determining the scope of a firm's activities;
• The challenges platform leaders face to create a "workable ecosystem", and the tradeoff between complementor quality and quantity;  
• The new challenges new business ventures face to managing platform-based dependencies and navigating these new technological and market landscapes;
• The core "identity" issues relating to the definitional elements of an ecosystem;
• The challenges that firms operating in an ecosystem face when deciding which activities to conduct internally, outsource or source concurrently;   
• The challenges that firms operating in an ecosystem face when determining which partners to cooperate with and how to manage these relationships;

Organizer: Carmelo Cennamo, Bocconi U. 
Organizer: Annabelle Gawer, U. of Surrey 
Panelist: Carliss Baldwin, Harvard U. 
Panelist: Tobias Kretschmer, LMU Munich 
Panelist: Satish Nambisan, U. of Wisconsin, Milwaukee 
Panelist: Anne Parmigiani, U. of Oregon 

We look forward to meeting you in Vancouver!

Best regards,