Digital Innovation Ecosystem on Digital Entrepreneur

Abstract

This study aims to produce a network structure in the digital innovation ecosystem to determine the position of each actor involved in it as an effort to support digital innovation in digital startups in West Java. This study uses a mixed method with an exploratory sequential strategy involving digital startup actors in West Java. To get the network structure in the digital innovation ecosystem in order to find out the actors who play the most important roles, the research uses a social network analysis approach by utilizing the Gephi application. The network structure is based on four dimensions of centrality. The results of this study confirm that the actor with the most connections (degree centrality), as well as the most important actor (Eigen centrality), in the digital innovation ecosystem in West Java is PT. Sharing Vision. A framework of digital innovation ecosystem is developed to explain the importance of actor positions in the digital innovation ecosystem.