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πŸ•ΈοΈ Roundtable: Orchestrating Polycentricity in Space Platform Ecosystems Scaling from Bespoke Pilots to Multi-Actor Space Platforms (Registration open)

  • 1.  πŸ•ΈοΈ Roundtable: Orchestrating Polycentricity in Space Platform Ecosystems Scaling from Bespoke Pilots to Multi-Actor Space Platforms (Registration open)

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    How do space platform ecosystems scale without losing coherence, accountability, or innovation capacity?

    This roundtable examines the orchestration challenges that arise as space ventures move from one-off missions and tightly managed pilots to broader, multi-actor platform ecosystems. Imagine an in-space manufacturing venture that begins with a single pharmaceutical partner and then expands to multiple customers, launch providers, complementors, regulators, and mission partners. What began as a bilateral project becomes a platform ecosystem.

    We will explore how platform leaders and key complementors coordinate roles, decision rights, interfaces, standards, certification regimes, and value-capture arrangements as ecosystems become increasingly polycentric. The discussion will also consider how early alliances can serve as experimental settings for learning about partners, governance routines, and scalable playbooks.

    πŸ‘₯ Facilitators
    β€’ Marin Jovanovic - Copenhagen Business School
    β€’ Paolo Trucco - Politecnico di Milano
    β€’ Yueling Zhou - Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam

    🧠 Discussion questions
    β€’ Which orchestration levers help align value creation and value capture as platform ecosystems co-evolve with market formation?
    β€’ How can platforms move from bespoke pilots to repeatable playbooks and large-scale ecosystem deployment?
    β€’ How should orchestrators adapt governance as ecosystems become more polycentric?
    β€’ How do alliance portfolios and integration choices shape capability development and ecosystem growth?
    β€’ How do alliances serve as capability-building mechanisms for successful ecosystem scaling?

    Join us for a focused discussion on how the Space Economy can help management scholars rethink platform ecosystems, orchestration, alliances, governance, and scaling in complex frontier contexts.

    πŸ—“οΈ August 1, 2026 | 2:00–5:30 PM
    πŸ“ Loews Hotel, Philadelphia, USA
    πŸ”—     Register: https://lnkd.in/e3czZT4R
    πŸ“©     Questions: Mehdi.montakhabi@said.oxford.edu



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