Prof.dr.ir. G.A. (Mark) de Reuver
Prof.dr.ir. G.A. (Mark) de Reuver
Profile
Digital platforms hold huge potential to address societal challenges. By providing essential resources like software modules and data, digital platforms drive innovation in any industry.
Imagine a connected health platform that patients can use at home. The platform collects data from wearables and electronic patient data. Developers can use the platform to provide tailored lifestyle advice. However, this opens the door to potential misuse—patient data being sold illicitly or unsafe health advice from low-quality applications. This example illustrates my fascination with platform openness. When designing for openness, digital platforms enable innovations that benefit society. Yet, openness also creates massive risks for values such as safety, privacy and sovereignty.
My research focus is the design of digital platforms. I'm driven by new technological paradigms for platform design: multi-platform constellations, data platforms and decentralized platforms. My aim is to develop design-relevant knowledge at the crossroads of architecture and governance.
My mission is to move the field into four main areas:
- Expand to new generations of digital platforms (e.g. data platforms)
- Create design-relevant knowledge on how to open up platforms. This design knowledge should consider new technological paradigms (e.g. decentralization)
- Incorporate societal implications of platform openness (e.g. privacy, sovereignty). Rather than idealizing these values, I aim to study how they interact with business models.
- Move away from well-known examples (e.g. smartphones, game consoles) to new engineering domains (e.g. health, mobility)
I'm currently fascinated by platforms for the data economy and AI. Can we design data platforms with viable business models, while preserving privacy and sovereignty?
Research interests
- Digital platforms
- Platform ecosystems
- Data platforms and data spaces
- Digital business models
Academic background
PhD (2009): Delft University of Technology. Governing mobile service innovation in co-evolving value networks
MSc (2006): Delft University of Technology. Systems Engineering, Policy Analysis and Management. Specialization: Information and Communication Technology
Publications
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2022
The Openness of Data Platforms: A Research Agenda
G.A. de Reuver / H.A. Ofe / W. Agahari / A.E. Abbas / A.M.G. Zuiderwijk-van Eijk
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2022
It is not (only) about privacy
How multi-party computation redefines control, trust, and risk in data sharing
W. Agahari / H.A. Ofe / G.A. de Reuver -
2022
Context dependent trade-offs around platform-to-platform openness
The case of the Internet of Things
Lars Mosterd / V.C.M. Sobota / G. van de Kaa / Aaron Yi Ding / G.A. de Reuver -
2019
Digitalization, business models, and SMEs
How do business model innovation practices improve performance of digitalizing SMEs?
Harry Bouwman / Shahrokh Nikou / Mark de Reuver -
2017
The digital platform
a research agenda
Mark de Reuver / Carsten Sørensen / Rahul C. Basole -
Prizes
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2023
Best paper award: Claudio Ciborra most innovative paper, 31st European Conference on Information Systems (ECIS 2023)
The award is given to most innovative paper of the conference. ECIS is one of the two top conferences in information systems and attracts ~400 submissions.
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2023
Outstanding Paper Award 36th Bled eConference
The Bled eConference has been a platform for pioneering research papers since 1988, and its Outstanding Paper Award honors academic quality, relevance to practices, and ambition for eCommerce advancement.
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2022
Best Research in-Progress Paper, 30th European Conference on Information Systems (ECIS 2022)
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2021
Outstanding Reviewer Award, Bled eConference
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2019
Lecturer of the year award for I&C domain
Ancillary activities
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2023-01-02 - 2024-12-31
Education
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2021-01-01 - 2024-12-30
Education