Jasper van den Boom is assistant professor of EU competition law at Leiden University and external researcher in the Shaping Competition in the Digital Age (SCiDA) project at the Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf. He is an expert in the area of digital competition and its regulation. His work focuses on competition in and between digital ecosystems, the Digital Markets Act and its enforcement, and comparative legal research for competition and antitrust matters.

• 1. Introduction; Part I. The Competitors in the Digital Network Industry; 2. A typology for digital goods, platforms, and ecosystems; 3. The Digital Network Industry: a confluence of the old and new; 4. Core platform services, the new natural monopoly?; Part II The Dynamics of Competition between Digital Ecosystems; 5. Modalities of ecosystem competition; 6. The stages of ecosystem competition – from efficient to harmful; 7. Theories of harm for ecosystem competition; Part III. A Regulatory Framework to Govern Ecosystem Competition; 8. The existing regulatory paradigms: DMA, DMCC, and Sec. 19a GWB; 9. A New Regulatory Paradigm: Progressive Ecosystem Regulation; 10. Conclusions.

Jasper van den Boom is assistant professor of EU competition law at Leiden University and external researcher in the Shaping Competition in the Digital Age (SCiDA) project at the Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf. He is an expert in the area of digital competition and its regulation. His work focuses on competition in and between digital ecosystems, the Digital Markets Act and its enforcement, and comparative legal research for competition and antitrust matters.

• 1. Introduction; Part I. The Competitors in the Digital Network Industry; 2. A typology for digital goods, platforms, and ecosystems; 3. The Digital Network Industry: a confluence of the old and new; 4. Core platform services, the new natural monopoly?; Part II The Dynamics of Competition between Digital Ecosystems; 5. Modalities of ecosystem competition; 6. The stages of ecosystem competition – from efficient to harmful; 7. Theories of harm for ecosystem competition; Part III. A Regulatory Framework to Govern Ecosystem Competition; 8. The existing regulatory paradigms: DMA, DMCC, and Sec. 19a GWB; 9. A New Regulatory Paradigm: Progressive Ecosystem Regulation; 10. Conclusions.

Jasper van den Boom is assistant professor of EU competition law at Leiden University and external researcher in the Shaping Competition in the Digital Age (SCiDA) project at the Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf. He is an expert in the area of digital competition and its regulation. His work focuses on competition in and between digital ecosystems, the Digital Markets Act and its enforcement, and comparative legal research for competition and antitrust matters.

• 1. Introduction; Part I. The Competitors in the Digital Network Industry; 2. A typology for digital goods, platforms, and ecosystems; 3. The Digital Network Industry: a confluence of the old and new; 4. Core platform services, the new natural monopoly?; Part II The Dynamics of Competition between Digital Ecosystems; 5. Modalities of ecosystem competition; 6. The stages of ecosystem competition – from efficient to harmful; 7. Theories of harm for ecosystem competition; Part III. A Regulatory Framework to Govern Ecosystem Competition; 8. The existing regulatory paradigms: DMA, DMCC, and Sec. 19a GWB; 9. A New Regulatory Paradigm: Progressive Ecosystem Regulation; 10. Conclusions.