Authors:
Paul Davidsson
1
;
Anders Hederstierna
2
;
Andreas Jacobsson
1
;
Jan A. Persson
1
;
Bengt Carlsson
1
;
Stefan J. Johansson
1
;
Anders Nilsson
2
;
Gunnar Ågren
2
and
Stefan Östholm
1
Affiliations:
1
School of Engineering, Blekinge Institute of Technology, Sweden
;
2
School of Management, Blekinge Institute of Technology, Sweden
Keyword(s):
Enterprise collaboration, entrepreneurial business, innovation, intelligent agents, interoperability, matchmaking, recommendation systems, virtual enterprise.
Related
Ontology
Subjects/Areas/Topics:
B2B, B2C and C2C
;
B2C/B2B Considerations
;
Business and Social Applications
;
Communication and Software Technologies and Architectures
;
e-Business
;
Enterprise Information Systems
;
Internet and Collaborative Computing
;
Society, e-Business and e-Government
;
Software Agents and Internet Computing
;
Web Information Systems and Technologies
Abstract:
Several barriers to turn innovative ideas into growth-oriented businesses with a global outlook are identified. The Plug and Play Business concept is suggested to lower these barriers by making it possible for the innovator to plug into a network of actors or potential collaborators with automated entrepreneurial functions. A P2P paradigm with intelligent agents is proposed to realize an environment that manages a dynamic network of roles and business relations. It is suggested that a critical characteristic of the Plug and Play Business software is to facilitate trust in-between the actors.