Towards systematic development of trans-sector digital innovations

Digital Information Networks (DINs) connect all economic and societal sectors, bringing within reach all kinds of novel trans-sector digital innovations: innovations involving multiple sectors enabled by DINs. This paper describes a framework to conceptualize novel trans-sector digital innovations. Our motivation for this work is to systematize the development of DIN enabled innovations across different sectors. This work fits in an emerging scientific field labelled by some as services science, an interdisciplinary new area of study to address the challenge of becoming more systematic about services innovation. We demonstrate the applicability of our framework by mapping it to 20 trans-sector digital innovation ideas. Primarily, this works aims at telecommunication service providers looking for new revenue streams and IT service developers. With this work, the maverick vision of industrializing the development of trans-sector digital innovations comes within reach.