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Record Nr.

UNINA9910488709503321

Autore

Heck E. van

Titolo

Technology meets flowers : unlocking the circular and digital economy / / Eric van Heck

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cham, Switzerland : , : Springer, , [2021]

©2021

ISBN

3-030-69303-1

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (238 pages)

Disciplina

381.4159

Soggetti

Flowers - Marketing

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Intro -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Contents -- About the Author -- 1: People Love Flowers -- 1.1  Tulip Time -- 1.2  Seduction -- 1.3  Inspiration -- 1.4  Value Network -- 1.5  Flower Demand -- 1.6  Global and Local Markets -- 1.7  Three Questions -- 1.8  Map of the World and the Netherlands -- References -- 2: Tulip Bulbs -- 2.1  Tulip Fields -- 2.2  Bourgeois Deal -- 2.3  True Monarch of Flowers -- 2.4  Tulip Breaking Mystery -- 2.5  Mystery Solved -- 2.6  Bulb Breeding -- 2.7  High Tech Genetics -- References -- 3: Glass City -- 3.1  Urban Landscape -- 3.2  Orangeries -- 3.3  Flowering Plants -- 3.4  Glasshouses -- 3.5  Data-Driven Production -- 3.6  Laboratories for Innovation -- 3.7  Urban Cities -- 3.8  High Tech and Carbon Neutral -- 3.9  Innovate and Digitize -- 3.10  Vertical Farming -- References -- 4: Dutch Flower Auctions -- 4.1  The Year 1637 -- 4.2  Tulip Mania Unraveled -- 4.3  Social Construction of Value -- 4.4  English Auctions -- 4.5  Dutch Auctions -- 4.6  Grower Cooperatives -- 4.7  Bidding in Dutch Auctions -- 4.8  Digitizing Flower Auctions -- 4.9  Other Auction Designs -- 4.10  Lessons Learned -- References -- 5: Flower Bouquets and Ecosystems -- 5.1  Kenyan Roses -- 5.2  Fashion and Flowers -- 5.3  Disruption -- 5.4  Flowers by Parcel Post -- 5.5  Digital Business Design -- 5.6  Platform Ecosystems -- 5.7  Direct Flow Distribution -- 5.8  Payments and Currencies -- 5.9  Web Redesign and Data Ownership -- References -- 6: Blooming Algorithms -- 6.1  Street Markets -- 6.2  Online Markets -- 6.3  Deep Learning --



6.4  Algorithms for Distribution -- 6.5  Flower Auctioneers -- 6.6  Algorithms for Auctioneers -- 6.7  Bidder Behavior -- 6.8  Predictive Flower Power -- 6.9  Algorithms for Value -- 6.10  Challenges -- References -- 7: The Future Is Circular and Digital -- 7.1  Group Portraits.

7.2  Cooperation and Concordance -- 7.3  Information Space Theory -- 7.4  Circular and Digital Transformations -- 7.5  Business Ecosystem Transition -- 7.6  Three Questions and Answers -- 7.7  Epilogue -- References -- Index.