A Survey of the Future Internet Business Ecosystems
16 June 2011
The vision for the Future Internet encompasses overcoming a diverse range of technical challenges ranging from scalability to adding more intelligence to networks and services in order to adapt the ecosystem to the varying requirements of users and devices. This technological (r)evolution will allow for the emergence of diverse new business models and industrial structures. Technological, business and social aspects will thus gear the success and sustainability of the Future Internet. Taking in consideration on-going European research activities, it becomes relevant at this point to characterise within these research projects the activities undertaken around the design of business ecosystems and assess whether these meet the technical and operational challenges of Future Internet architectures and deliver the appropriate incentives for stakeholders. In this paper, we survey European projects approved in Call 1, under Challenge 1, Objective 1 and assess whether business studies have been taken in consideration and identify potential gaps that may impact the sustainability and success of future architectures and services, and therefore should be identified and tackled in upcoming research initiatives.