A Digital Business Ecosystem (DBE) is a new form of
dynamic business interaction and global co-operation among
organizations and business communities, enabled by digital
ecosystem technologies that foster local economic growth.
The main characteristics of a DBE are: knocking down the
barriers to distributed cooperative work and shared knowledge
production, allowing the synchronization of dynamic
social and communication networks over ever-shortening
time scales, as well as pushing the ecosystem metaphor
towards a distributed cognitive system and a collective intelligence
(European Commission European Society and Media
2007).