Abstract
In ecosystems, participants co-evolve capabilities around
new innovations by collaborating to support new
offerings, satisfy customer needs and eventually discover
innovations. The ecosystem functions increase the value
of the output so that it exceeds the sum of the
functions. The main objective of both winter maintenance
ecosystems, Finnish and Japanese, is to provide safe and
fluent road conditions. These ecosystems are compared to
analyse and discuss the potential ways to develop current
value chains. As roads and streets are publicly owned in
most cases and mobility services regarded as public good,
the role of the public sector mostly dictates the
topology of the ecosystem and the type of actors in it.
In Finland, the role of the road authorities is reduced
due to restructuring, whereas in Japan it has so far
remained stronger even though road authorities have been
enhancing cooperation with local residents.
| Original language | English |
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| Title of host publication | Proceedings of 10th ITS European Congress, CD-ROM |
| Publisher | ERTICO - ITS Europe |
| Number of pages | 10 |
| Publication status | Published - 2014 |
| MoE publication type | A4 Article in a conference publication |
| Event | 10th ITS European Congress - Helsinki, Finland Duration: 16 Jun 2014 → 19 Jun 2014 |
Conference
| Conference | 10th ITS European Congress |
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| Country/Territory | Finland |
| City | Helsinki |
| Period | 16/06/14 → 19/06/14 |