Digital Marketplaces and their value for the Materials Modelling Ecosystem

We just published an overview paper of the emergence of digital marketplaces in the area of science driven industries, with a particular focus on materials modelling. Complex science and technology requires a wide range of tools and expertise, and benefits from assembling a network of skills and capabilities in an open innovation approach. Digital marketplaces are becoming crucial in orchestrating R&D that works in a complex ecosystem, ensure that a wider range of stakeholders and involved and that industry can access emerging developments from academia more readily. The paper discusses the emergence of marketplaces and e-commerce in general and provides successful examples of marketplaces in R&D outsourcing, materials expertise, data and simulations. Emerging marketplaces in materials modelling based on the EU H2020 MarketPlace and VIMMP projects are introduced.