The Emerging IIC Verticals Taxonomy Landscape � reconcile member perspectives with external classifications, such as regulators, academic analysis efforts and especially those relied upon by funding organizations, such as grant funding, PE funding and venture funding.
The verticals taxonomy is principally derived from nine industrial classifications of private and public sources 14( see Figure 3) that were reviewed and leveraged as sources.
Figure 3: Nine sources taken into account to create the IIC Verticals Taxonomy Landscape. [ References 1-9 ]
The Verticals Taxonomy needs to support different applications. For example, a nuclear reactor supplier might find that the strict safety processes developed to manufacture reactors allows them to also build nuclear warheads. For this supplier, it may make sense to have a taxonomy where missiles and nuclear reactors are grouped together, but the overall IIC would like to classify them separately( e. g. a reactor is in the energy sector and missiles are in the defense sector).
14 List sources: Beecham, ICS, et. al. References 1-9.
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