Paper Number
1634
Paper Type
Completed
Description
The so called Metaverse is among the most popular emerging themes in contemporary business and academic discourses related to digital transformation. Beside the hype and buzz around the topic, recent research has established important progress related to the technical foundations and use-case scenarios. However, the preconditions to manifest these promising potentials, that is the underlying socio-technical ecosystem, is, to date, not well-understood. In particular, we still do not know much about the key building blocks of technical knowledge and who creates this knowledge base necessary for the Metaverse. Therefore, in this study, employing cluster-analysis to a complex dataset involving 2297 Metaverse-patents, we reveal key areas of technological knowledge as well as important actor groups shaping the development of the knowledge base. Building upon these inductively derived knowledge generation structures, we discuss important implications for managers and academics and propose an Information Systems research agenda to further explore the emerging Metaverse ecosystem.
Recommended Citation
Pohsner, Henrik and Hanelt, André, "Mapping the Metaverse – Knowledge Generation Structures in a Nascent Ecosystem" (2023). ICIS 2023 Proceedings. 13.
https://aisel.aisnet.org/icis2023/generalis/generalis/13
Mapping the Metaverse – Knowledge Generation Structures in a Nascent Ecosystem
The so called Metaverse is among the most popular emerging themes in contemporary business and academic discourses related to digital transformation. Beside the hype and buzz around the topic, recent research has established important progress related to the technical foundations and use-case scenarios. However, the preconditions to manifest these promising potentials, that is the underlying socio-technical ecosystem, is, to date, not well-understood. In particular, we still do not know much about the key building blocks of technical knowledge and who creates this knowledge base necessary for the Metaverse. Therefore, in this study, employing cluster-analysis to a complex dataset involving 2297 Metaverse-patents, we reveal key areas of technological knowledge as well as important actor groups shaping the development of the knowledge base. Building upon these inductively derived knowledge generation structures, we discuss important implications for managers and academics and propose an Information Systems research agenda to further explore the emerging Metaverse ecosystem.
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