The Machine-to-Everything (M2X) Economy: Business Enactments, Collaborations, and e-Governance

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The Machine-to-Everything (M2X) Economy: Business Enactments, Collaborations, and e-Governance
Benjamin Leiding ^1,*^,† , Priyanka Sharma ^1,† and Alexander Norta <sup>2,†


1</sup> Institute for Software and Systems Engineering, Clausthal University of Technology, 38678 Clausthal-Zellerfeld, Germany; [e-mail]
² Department of Software Science, Tallinn University of Technology, 12616 Tallinn, Estonia;
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* Correspondence: [e-mail]
† These authors contributed equally to this work.

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Citation: Leiding, B.; Sharma, P.; Norta, A. The Machine-to-Everything (M2X) Economy: Business Enactments, Collaborations, and
e-Governance. Future Internet 2021, 13, 319. https://doi.org/10.3390/ fi13120319
Academic Editor: Paolo Bellavista Received: 7 December 2021
Accepted: 13 December 2021
Published: 19 December 2021


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Keywords: blockchain; smart contract; M2X; smart autonomous devices; e-governance; lifecycle management