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Invisible Engines How Software Platforms Drive Innovation and Transform Industries

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ISBN-10: 0262550687

ISBN-13: 9780262550680

Edition: 2008

Authors: Andrei Hagiu, Richard Schmalensee, David S. Evans

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Winner of the Business, Management & Accounting category in the 2006 Professional/Scholarly Publishing Annual Awards Competition presented by the Association of American Publishers, Inc. Software platforms are the invisible engines that have created, touched, or transformed nearly every major industry for the past quarter century. They power everything from mobile phones and automobile navigation systems to search engines and web portals. They have been the source of enormous value to consumers and helped some entrepreneurs build great fortunes. And they are likely to drive change that will dwarf the business and technology revolution we have seen to this point. Invisible Enginesexamines…    
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Book details

List price: $20.95
Copyright year: 2008
Publisher: MIT Press
Publication date: 2/15/2008
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 408
Size: 5.75" wide x 8.75" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 1.188
Language: English

David S. Evans is Managing Director of the Global Competition Policy Practice at LECG LLC. Andrei Hagiu is Assistant Professor of Strategy at Harvard Business School. Richard Schmalensee is John C. Head III Dean and Professor of Management and Economics at MIT Sloan School of Management. Evans, Hagiu, and Schmalensee are also with Market Platform Dynamics, a management consulting firm that focuses on strategic analysis and product design for platform-based firms.

Preface
Acknowledgments
Invisible Engines
Speaking in Code
Both Sides Now
Dropouts and Evangelists
PONG
The Palm Economy
Ba-BA-Ba-BAAAAH
Dangerous Intersections
With a Little Help...
Some Lunches Are Free
When Bigger Is Better
Swept Away
Selected Bibliography
Index