TY - JOUR T1 - Q&A. How Can Online Platforms Contribute to Smarter and More Prosperous Regions in Europe? JF - Technology Innovation Management Review Y1 - 2016 A1 - Hanne Melin A1 - Samuel Laurinkari A1 - Taina Tukiainen KW - digital economy KW - e-commerce KW - online marketplaces KW - online platforms KW - regional integration PB - Talent First Network CY - Ottawa VL - 6 UR - http://timreview.ca/article/1042 IS - 12 U1 - eBay Hanne Melin is Director of Global Public Policy at eBay, where she leads eBay’s Public Policy Lab for the Europe, MiddleEast, and Africa region (http://www.ebaymainstreet.com/lab). Hanne is also a member of the European Commission’s Strategic Policy Forum on Digital Entrepreneurship, and she represents eBay as a member of the World Customs Organization’s Private Sector Consultative Group. Before joining eBay, Hanne was an associate at the law firm Sidley Austin LLP based in Brussels, where she practised competition law for five years. Hanne holds a Master's degree in International Business Law from King’s College London, she is a guest lecturer at the law faculty of Lund University (Sweden), and is a frequent speaker and writer on the topic of online commerce and trade policy. U2 - eBay Samuel Laurinkari is Senior Manager of Government Relations at eBay, heading up the company's work on EU policies impacting eBay and its users, such as e-Commerce legislation, online platform policy, consumer policy, competition policy, and cross-border trade policy. Prior to joining eBay, Samuel worked in government relations for LVMH Moët Hennessy Louis Vuitton and as a consultant for FTI Consulting. Samuel grew up in Finland and Germany and studied European law at Maastricht University in the Netherlands. U3 - Aalto University Taina Tukiainen is a Senior Researcher at Aalto University in Espoo, Finland, and she is a Cabinet Member of the President of the EU Committee of the Regions (CoR). She has worked for over 20 years within industry and universities and for over 10 years at Nokia Corporation as a senior manager, and she has worked on various projects with international university and industry collaboration. She was, until 2014, Director of Digibusiness Finland. Her research interest is strategic research including innovation, technology management, and entrepreneurship. Taina's doctoral dissertation was The Unexpected Benefits of Internal Corporate Ventures: An Empirical Examination of the Consequences of Investment in Corporate Ventures (2004), and the title of her latest book was The Finnish Startups in Globally Evolving Ecosystems: Value for Finland (2014). ER -