Current research projects
I'm implicated as scientific leader of 4 projects emphazing business model innovation issues in smart transportation ecosystems and big data ecosystems:
1. Value creation within the nascent big data intelligence ecosystem.
2. Data Privacy - Personal data analysis and business models of platforms implicating privacy issues
3. C-PEPSI - Understand and Operate Ethical Issues Related to Data Protection and Digital Services in Business Model Innovation
4. Smart Carpooling - Integrating users' carpooling behavior when designing the business model of a smart transportation application
5. City & Tram - Tramway connected to the city
Value creation within the nascent big data intelligence ecosystem.
Both Data Privacy and C-PEPSI projects contributed to define a broader research project to examine how innovation and strategic management can help information systems literature to unify two main research agendas: the one that focus on how to create value from big data and the one that adresses the same question, but in relation to artificial intelligence. Using computer sciences theoritical background and empirical studies, the project aims to understand how big data technologies and artificial intelligence technologies converge to create value from distributed data. Its objective is to show "how actors of nascent digital ecosystems coordinate and innovate in their business models to create value from distributed data".
For more information, read the research project. Pierre Correia Da Silva, has been recruted on October 2020 as Assistant of Research to help in data collection first step.
Data Privacy - Personal data analysis and business models of platforms implicating privacy issues
This project began in January 2018 for a period of 24 months. It is a collaboration between two research institutes of UCA-IDEX: GREDEG and DIANA team of INRIA. It implicates one international expert researcher in digital platforms: Annabelle Gawer. The projects examines how decentralizing digital platforms for solving privacy issues is of value for both users and providers.
See website : click here
C-PEPSI - Understand and Operate Ethical Issues Related to Data Protection and Digital Services in Business Model Innovation
This project is in collaboration of UCA, IMREDD, MNCA and GREDEG. It focuses on how a public partner (a University) could be a key member of a big and open data ecosystem. The objective of this project was to appraise and identify new economic and legal models that can provide a return on investment in the context of the digital economy. The project has also industrial and institutional challenges that are centered on the creation of an “Innovation Center for Intelligent Territories” (CITI). This center focus on main domains of smart cities's strategies. That is why the project aimed at his first stage, with the contribution of Leticia FOERSTER, to develop a strategic tool to support new business models design and help avoid ethical and legal risks that may emerge from in the digital economy context.
See website: click here (EN) or ici (FR)
City & Tram - Tramway connected to the city
This project began in march 2017 for a period of 30 months. It is a collaboration between the private sector (represented by: Alstom, RLA and MNCA) and the scientific sector (represented by: Université Cote d'Azur (UCA), GREDEG, Telecom ParisTech, MSHS-Sud-Est and Transitions ). It is funded by the program "Territoire Intelligent, prévention et gestion des risques" of the UCA's initiative of excellence (IDEX-JEDI). This project aims to identify sources of value creation and their possible distribution patterns as part of a cooperative solution within the smart city ecosystem or a more specific ecosystem such as Intelligent Transportation Systems. At the end of the second year of the project, a PhD project has been defined on the following topic: "Towards understanding business models and business ecosystems co-evolution: the case of transportation as a service in smart cities". The PhD candidate, Leticia FOERSTER, has successfully obtained a scholarship from our Doctoral Department (DESPEG) for th period of september 2019 - August 2022.
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Smart Carpooling
Integrating users' carpooling behaviors when designing the business model of a smart transportation application
This project started in May 2017 for a period of 24 months. It was a collaboration between the start-up wever and my research institute: the GREDEG, that has been extended by a PhD research project (in strategic management field) that Thomas COTE began in April 2019. Smart Carpooling project focused on how a smart transportation application could position itself as a niche player of a broader business ecosystem. Two sided of smart transportation applications' market have been considered in this project: the demand side and the supply side. The analysis of the demand side aimed to identify the levers that characterize the value proposition of wever application within its ecosystem. Very preliminary results are presented here (see the last webinar presentation). Concerning the supply side, the project examined value creation and capture mechanisms within wever ecosystem in order to identify processes that enable a niche player to innovate in his business model.
Successfully closed projects
Business model innovation within Smart Cities: the case of NFC platform-based mobile services.
From January 2010 to December 2015, I was involved in three experimental projects around the technology Near Field Communication: NFCampus, FIRST and the project SophiaZen (cf. Fiche 22, p. 36). These projects were conducted in the smart city of Nice, or by actors implanted or working with Nice. For both projects, I was in charge with the workpackage : "Business models definition" of the NFC based mobile services experimented. As I acted as researcher-observer in these three projects, in addition to my operational role, I collected by active observation (in situ) very rich primary data via participation in various meetings (face-to-face, telephone or video-conference, brainstorming sessions). By doing so, I was able to study several research questions in papers that have been published by high level academic journals (see here).
And ... my first PhD student, Maëlle DELLA PERUTA, has been funded thanks to the project FIRST.
e-Government diffusion in French municipalities
This project was conducted in keeping with my PHD thesis that focused on e-Government adoption by French municipalities. The project had two phases that focused on e-Goverment implementation in French municipalities located in the Nord-East of France. Funded by Région Lorraine from june 2012 to december 2014, the first phase of the project focused on e-Goverment implementation by municipalities of Région Grand Est. I leaded this phase when I was Associate Professor at Université de Lorraine. The second phase of the project was conducted from 2016 - 2018 under the leadership of Sabine-Chaupain Guillot. This second phase has received fundings from Région Grand Est and focused on municipalities of two French regions: Grand Est and Bourgone-Franche-Comté. Main results of the first phase are summarized here and those of the second phase are available here.
