Jim Moore’s blog: Innovation, Strategy, Public Policy

A comprehensive overview of business ecosystems as an approach to business strategy is provided by the following books.  These books combine detailed case studies with systematic theorizing, in order to provide a strong foundation to strategy making as well as (increasingly) government policy-making as it applies to innovation.

Carliss Baldwin and Kim Clark are professors at the Harvard Business School (Carliss is a premier thinker on product architectures and the economics of product and process systems, and Kim a reknown expert on innovation in large-scale manufacturing processes, and a former dean of the school), Werner Callebaut is with the Konrad Lorenz Institute for Evolution and Cognition Research, Vienna, and Diego Rasskin-Gutman is at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies, San Diego).  Marco Iansiti is a senior professor at the Harvard Business School (Marco is a leader of studies of strategy and innovation at the school). 

Design Rules, Vol. 1: The Power of Modularity by Carliss Y. Baldwin and Kim Clark	Modularity : Understanding the Development and Evolution of Natural Complex Systems (Vienna Series in Theoretical Biology) by Werner Callebaut and Diego Rasskin-Gutman	The Keystone Advantage: What the New Dynamics of Business Ecosystems Mean for Strategy, Innovation, and Sustainability by Marco Iansiti and Roy Levien	The Death of Competition: Leadership and Strategy in the Age of Business Ecosystems by James F. Moore