Invitation to Participate in Research: Digital Ecosystems for Business Clusters

At the Industrial AI Research Centre, University of South Australia (UniSA), we are embarking on an exciting research project to support collaboration among organisations within business clusters in a digital environment. Our goal is to improve the efficiency of how your organisation collaborates within your business network to create value by developing and piloting a framework that facilitates interoperability of IT resources and secure information sharing among businesses that is reusable, repeatable, and scalable.

We value your experience and insights as an industry practitioner. To this end, we are reaching out to business, engineering, and IT managers from various industry sectors (such as asset-intensive and process-centric industries) to provide their perspectives in an online survey, which will take approximately 15-20 minutes. The survey will investigate the challenges and priorities of businesses involved in inter-dependant business networks or clusters. Your input will be important in identifying key business requirements, challenges, and potential support mechanisms for setting up interoperable digital environments for the business network.

Your participation is entirely voluntary, and your responses will remain confidential. You may also opt-in for a follow-up interview if you are interested in contributing further. The Participant Information Sheet provides further details on the project and your participation in the research, should you choose to contribute. The findings of this survey will be published in academic and industry venues, or shared with you on request, helping you identify and leverage collaborative opportunities with your business network.

To access the survey, please click the link below:

https://research.unisa.edu.au/redcap/surveys/?s=RW84DHXYRE7R8KYF

This project has been approved by the University of South Australia’s Human Research Ethics Committee (Ethics Protocol 206204). If you have any questions or require further information, please feel free to contact us. Thank you for your time and valuable insights.

Project team at Industrial AI Centre, University of South Australia

Dr Karamjit Kaur, Dr Matt Selway, A/Prof. Nina Evans, Prof. Markus Stumptner

And the Future Energy Exports CRC Limited (FEnEx CRC), Australia.

Contact Email: Karamjit.Kaur@unisa.edu.au