Abstract

The value created from digital innovation are increasingly being centralized and monopolized by a few large tech platform companies. The promise of democratized innovation through digital technology has instead been overshadowed by platform companies controlling markets and the resources for innovation. Scholars are calling for research that explores fairer approaches to value creation and capture value from digital innovation. This paper aims to contribute to this call by exploring how the concept of digital public goods (DPGs) can serve as a lens to understand value creation and capture from digital innovation. We draw on the notion of public goods from economics, which describes goods that are non-excludable and non-rivalrous. Then, we apply the concept of DPGs to an empirical case of the Norwegian Altinn platform, which aims to support digital innovation of public services, targeting citizens, private businesses, and public organizations. We specifically examine how value created and captured from the innovation of a funeral administration system using the Altinn platform. We contribute to the literature on digital innovation and digital public goods with an exploration of how a lens of DPGs can play a role in future research on digital innovation.

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