This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 9th IFIP WG 5.5 International Conference on Information Technology for Balanced Automation Systems, BASYS 2010, held in Valencia, Spain, in July 2010. The 35 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from numerous submissions. The papers cover a broad range of topics that may help gaining a deeper understanding about next generation systems for innovation and manufacturing. They are organized in topical sections on co-innovation networks in industry; industry ecosystems and emergent business models; advanced...