An IP strategy for a digital platform centers around creating robust protection around the value delivery. This involves developing and nurturing network effects, utilizing formal IP tools, and implementing a cost-effective and integrated plan into the company's overall growth strategy.

GIG-Platforms like Uber, Fiverr, TaskRabbit, and many others have become integral to our daily lives. One critical question in this context is: Who should be able to set prices for these digital gigs? Should it be the platform, service providers, or customers?

In the digital realm, platforms thrive on four functions: aggregating supply and demand, crafting seamless matchmaking, sealing transactions within, and nurturing unshakable trust. Mastering these functions ensures a thriving ecosystem in the ever-evolving platform landscape.

In an ecosystem, digital services in the forms of apps, APIs, or modules act as pivotal components. These "components" secure their place through platform strategies, ensuring heightened significance and negotiation power within the Ecosystem.

The gig-platform industry has disrupted many regulated industries with an evasive strategy, avoiding regulations and using apps and algorithms to manage a "self-employed" workforce. Now EU may finally improve the labor right for gig-workers.

Many network strategies aim to build an ecosystem related to their platform business. But many fail to grow a healthy ecosystem and become an ego system that eventually implodes. So let's look at some primary sources for a healthy ecosystem.