“Successful businesses are those that evolve rapidly and effectively. Yet innovative businesses can’t evolve in a vacuum. […] In a business ecosystem, companies coevolve capabilities around a new innovation: they work cooperatively and competitively to support new products, satisfy customer needs, and eventually incorporate the next round of innovations.”

“The whole complex of organisms present in an ecological unit may be called the biome. […] In an ecosystem, the organisms and the inorganic factors alike are components which are in relatively stable equilibrium. Succession and development are instances of the universal process tending towards the creation of such equilibrated systems.”