Platform Innovation as Concept-fit

Affordances, Supportances, and Social Innovation

Picture: by Soraya Irving

This article is part of the Platform-for-Development (P4D) framework (2.0). The new version of the P4D framework adopts Project-oriented Activity Theory and the Ecological Practice approach as theoretical resources and uses the Supportive Cycle model as a hub of ideas development.

The Supportive Cycle model uses “Concept” as a center for curating four supportive movements together. The term “Concept” is adopted from Project-oriented Activity Theory which considers an activity as a process of formation of a brand new concept.

This article will follow this idea and develop a new framework called Concept-fit for understanding Platform Innovation.

Contents

Part 1: Background

1.1 Platform Innovation as an Intermediate Concept
1.2 The development of a new framework
1.3 A simple diagram

Part 2: Practice-based Reflection

2.1 The Rise of the Passion Economy
2.2 Two types of Concepts
2.3 Innovation as Formation of Concept
2.4 The Technology — Culture Fit
2.5 The Concept-fit Model
2.6 Out of the Box