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Three stages:
1) “Ecosystem” coined and de
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ned by British botanists Roy Clapham and Arthur Tansley in the
1930s:
“The whole system,… including not only the organism-complex, but also the whole complex of
physical factors forming what we call the environment.”
2) “Predators and Prey: A New Ecology of Competition” HBR 1993, James F Moore
“Every business ecosystem develops in four distinct stages: birth, expansion, leadership, and
self-renewal…”
3) Many, many de
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nitions that all involve the word “network”. “What is a Technology Ecosystem?”
Joe O’Callaghan, Vation Ventures
“An ecosystem is a community of complex networks of interconnected organisms or systems.”
What is a Tech Ecosystem?