scholarly journals Opportunities to observe and measure intangible inputs to innovation: Definitions, operationalization, and examples

2018 ◽  
Vol 115 (50) ◽  
pp. 12638-12645 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sallie Keller ◽  
Gizem Korkmaz ◽  
Carol Robbins ◽  
Stephanie Shipp
Keyword(s):  
Open Source ◽  
Administrative Data ◽  
Open Source Software ◽  
Data Science ◽  
Business Processes ◽  
Organizational Innovation ◽  
Innovation Process ◽  
Sources Of Information ◽  
First Case ◽  
Science Framework

Measuring the value of intangibles is not easy, because they are critical but usually invisible components of the innovation process. Today, access to nonsurvey data sources, such as administrative data and repositories captured on web pages, opens opportunities to create intangibles based on new sources of information and capture intangible innovations in new ways. Intangibles include ownership of innovative property and human resources that make a company unique but are currently unmeasured. For example, intangibles represent the value of a company’s databases and software, the tacit knowledge of their workers, and the investments in research and development (R&D) and design. Through two case studies, the challenges and processes to both create and measure intangibles are presented using a data science framework that outlines processes to discover, acquire, profile, clean, link, explore the fitness-for-use, and statistically analyze the data. The first case study shows that creating organizational innovation is possible by linking administrative data across business processes in a Fortune 500 company. The motivation for this research is to develop company processes capable of synchronizing their supply chain end to end while capturing dynamics that can alter the inventory, profits, and service balance. The second example shows the feasibility of measurement of innovation related to the characteristics of open source software through data scraped from software repositories that provide this information. The ultimate goal is to develop accurate and repeatable measures to estimate the value of nonbusiness sector open source software to the economy. This early work shows the feasibility of these approaches.

scholarly journals Correction to: Gendered behavior as a disadvantage in open source software development

2019 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Balazs Vedres ◽  
Orsolya Vasarhelyi
Keyword(s):  
United Kingdom ◽  
Software Development ◽  
Open Source ◽  
Open Source Software ◽  
Data Science ◽  
Open Source Software Development ◽  
Central European ◽  
University Of Oxford ◽  
European University

Following publication of the original article [1], we have been notified that one more affiliation of the corresponding author is missing. Currently Balasz Vedres affiliation is: 1 Oxford Internet Institute, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom It should be: 1 Oxford Internet Institute, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom; 2 Department of Network and Data Science, Central European University, Budapest, Hungary.

scholarly journals Images of innovation in discourses of free and open source software

First Monday ◽  
2014 ◽  
Author(s):  
George Dafermos ◽  
Michel J.G. Van Eeten
Keyword(s):  
Open Source ◽  
Open Source Software ◽  
Q Methodology ◽  
Common Ground ◽  
Innovation Management ◽  
Innovation Process ◽  
Negative Effect ◽  
Four Discourses ◽  
The Relationship

In this study, we examine the relationship between innovation and free/open source software (FOSS) based on the views of contributors to FOSS projects, using Q methodology as a method of discourse analysis to make visible the positions held by FOSS contributors and identify the discourses encountered in the FOSS community. In specific, our analysis reveals four discourses: four ways of expressing oneself used by FOSS contributors, which, aside from certain commonalities, postulate fundamentally different conceptions of innovation. Whereas the dispersion of FOSS contributors’ subjectivity across four different discourses is indicative of the diversity and heterogeneity of the FOSS community, their commonalities, however, demarcate a common ground that all discourses share: points of agreement include the negative effect of patents on innovation, the predominant role of end users over manufacturers in the innovation process and the embrace of FOSS licenses as a key enabler of innovation. In the conclusion, we outline some implications for innovation management and policy.

scholarly journals Ligo: An Open Source Application for the Management and Execution of Administrative Data Linkage

2018 ◽  
Vol 3 (4) ◽  
Author(s):  
Greg Lawrance ◽  
Raphael Parra Hernandez ◽  
Khalegh Mamakani ◽  
Suraiya Khan ◽  
Brent Hills ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Machine Learning ◽  
Open Source ◽  
Administrative Data ◽  
Data Science ◽  
Population Data ◽  
Probabilistic Methods ◽  
Learning Approaches ◽  
Web Interface ◽  
Science Community ◽  
Comparison Algorithms

IntroductionLigo is an open source application that provides a framework for managing and executing administrative data linking projects. Ligo provides an easy-to-use web interface that lets analysts select among data linking methods including deterministic, probabilistic and machine learning approaches and use these in a documented, repeatable, tested, step-by-step process. Objectives and ApproachThe linking application has two primary functions: identifying common entities in datasets [de-duplication] and identifying common entities between datasets [linking]. The application is being built from the ground up in a partnership between the Province of British Columbia’s Data Innovation (DI) Program and Population Data BC, and with input from data scientists. The simple web interface allows analysts to streamline the processing of multiple datasets in a straight-forward and reproducible manner. ResultsBuilt in Python and implemented as a desktop-capable and cloud-deployable containerized application, Ligo includes many of the latest data-linking comparison algorithms with a plugin architecture that supports the simple addition of new formulae. Currently, deterministic approaches to linking have been implemented and probabilistic methods are in alpha testing. A fully functional alpha, including deterministic and probabilistic methods is expected to be ready in September, with a machine learning extension expected soon after. Conclusion/ImplicationsLigo has been designed with enterprise users in mind. The application is intended to make the processes of data de-duplication and linking simple, fast and reproducible. By making the application open source, we encourage feedback and collaboration from across the population research and data science community.

scholarly journals The Right Tools for the Job: The Case for Spatial Science Tool-Building

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Geoff Boeing
Keyword(s):  
Open Source ◽  
Open Source Software ◽  
Data Science ◽  
Network Science ◽  
Science Literature ◽  
Spatial Network ◽  
Multiple Perspectives ◽  
Development Tool ◽  
The Right ◽  
Tool Building

This paper was presented as the 8th annual Transactions in GIS plenary address at the American Association of Geographers annual meeting in Washington, DC. The spatial sciences have recently seen growing calls for more accessible software and tools that better embody geographic science and theory. Urban spatial network science offers one clear opportunity: from multiple perspectives, tools to model and analyze nonplanar urban spatial networks have traditionally been inaccessible, atheoretical, or otherwise limiting. This paper reflects on this state of the field. Then it discusses the motivation, experience, and outcomes of developing OSMnx, a tool intended to help address this. Next it reviews this tool's use in the recent multidisciplinary spatial network science literature to highlight upstream and downstream benefits of open‐source software development. Tool-building is an essential but poorly incentivized component of academic geography and social science more broadly. To conduct better science, we need to build better tools. The paper concludes with paths forward, emphasizing open-source software and reusable computational data science beyond mere reproducibility and replicability.

scholarly journals Big data processing using Open Source Software- A Questionnaire on the data science

2016 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 1
Author(s):  
Andrew McCullum
Keyword(s):  
Big Data ◽  
Data Processing ◽  
World Trade Organization ◽  
Central Asia ◽  
Open Source ◽  
Open Source Software ◽  
World Trade ◽  
Data Science ◽  
Customs Union ◽  
The World

In 2015, Central Asia made some vital enhancements in nature for cross-fringe e-business: Kazakhstan's promotion to the World Trade Organization (WTO) will help business straightforwardness, while the Kyrgyz Republic's enrollment in the Eurasian Customs Union grows its buyer base. Why e-business? Two reasons to begin with, e-trade diminishes the expense of separation. Focal Asia is the most elevated exchange cost locale on the planet: unlimited separations from real markets make discovering purchasers testing, shipping merchandise moderate, and fare costs high. Second, e-business can pull in populaces that are customarily under-spoke to in fare markets, for example, ladies, little organizations and rustic business visionaries.

scholarly journals The Automation of Standard People Operations in the Energy Transport

2021 ◽  
Vol 61 (5) ◽  
pp. 203-213
Keyword(s):  
Open Source ◽  
Open Source Software ◽  
Business Processes ◽  
Energy Transport ◽  
Human Intervention ◽  
Global Trend ◽  
Human Labour ◽  
The Future ◽  
Automation Tools ◽  
And Control

The automation of business processes and operations is a global trend. Automation is software or mechanical self-fulfilling process without or with a minimal human intervention and control. In specific processes and parts of the energy transport the automation is already happening. It can replace significant part of human labour or just to take and reduce the routine physical or repeating mental efforts of the jobs. Automation tools and systems in the energy transport are strongly dominated by open-source software automation tools. Therefore, a part of professional skills required before automation will not be useful in the future, but to handle automation trend, many new skills and knowledge will be needed by the human jobs of the future.

scholarly journals How do apprentices moderate the influence of organizational innovation on the technological innovation process?

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Christian Rupietta ◽  
Johannes Meuer ◽  
Uschi Backes-Gellner
Keyword(s):  
Technological Innovation ◽  
Business Processes ◽  
Organizational Innovation ◽  
Change Agents ◽  
Innovation Process ◽  
Positive Association ◽  
Vocational Education And Training ◽  
Positive Effects ◽  
Innovation Activities ◽  
External Change Agents

AbstractThis paper contributes to the literature on non-monetary benefits of Vocational Education and Training (VET) by investigating its influence on a firm’s innovation process. While an increasing number of studies finds positive effects of VET on innovation in firms, the role that apprentices play in this mechanism has largely been unexplored. To analyze this role, we use the distinction between technological and organizational innovation, two complementary forms of innovation. When investigating the initiators of organizational innovation, to date, research has primarily focused on internal and external change agents at upper echelons. We conceptualize apprentices as hybrid (a combination of internal and external) change agents at lower echelons. We examine how apprentices in the Swiss VET system are key to integrating external knowledge (through school-based education) with internal knowledge (through on-the-job training) and moderating the influence of organizational innovation on technological innovation. Drawing on a sample of 1240 firms from a representative Swiss Innovation Survey, we show that apprentices leverage the positive association between innovations in a firm’s business processes and organization of work with incremental innovations. With the description of a new mechanism that shows the significant role of apprentices on firms’ technological innovation activities and evidence for supportive associations between key variables, we contribute to the understanding of the influence of VET on innovation in firms.

scholarly journals The Challenges of Open Source Software Alternatives

2021 ◽  
Vol 251 ◽  
pp. 01003
Author(s):  
Aristofanis Chionis-Koufakos ◽  
Maria Dimou ◽  
Michal Kolodziejski
Keyword(s):  
Open Source ◽  
Open Source Software ◽  
Business Processes ◽  
Personal Data ◽  
Ease Of Use ◽  
User Requirements ◽  
Web Based ◽  
Software Application ◽  
Operational Quality

Developing an Open Source Software application is a challenge. Mainly because there are commercial alternatives that have an army of expert developers behind them, experienced supporters and wellestablished business processes in their development and promotion. Nevertheless, web-based applications, that securely handle the users’ personal data are an area of freedom and ease of use, features that make such applications very attractive. The “ease-of-use” part is very hard to achieve, for the developers and the end-users. Dependencies change often in OSS packages, so the fear that something breaks is always around the corner. If the application looks attractive, additional user requirements fall like rain. This poses a problem of continuity, maintenance and operational quality of the packages. In this paper and presentation we shall share our experience in building such a tool, using https://cern.ch/slides, as a showcase and a learning exercise. We shall describe what was available, what was missing, how it was put together, how much effort it took, and what was achieved.

scholarly journals ANALISIS FUNGSIONALITAS OPEN SOURCE SOFTWARE ERP UNTUK PENGEMBANGAN MODUL PEMBELAJARAN ERP

2012 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
pp. 118
Author(s):  
Putu Wuri Handayani ◽  
Ultary Hariyaty
Keyword(s):  
Open Source ◽  
Open Source Software ◽  
Best Practice ◽  
Business Processes ◽  
Learning Modules ◽  
Erp Software

Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk menganalisis perbandingan fungsionalitas open source software ERP dalam pengembangan modul pembelajaran untuk proses bisnis penjualan, distribusi serta pengadaan. Penelitian ini membandingkan tiga OSS ERP yaitu Compiere 3.3 Community Edition, Openbravo 3.0 Community Edition, dan xTuple 3.6 PostBooks Edition. Kebutuhan functional masing-masing modul diturunkan dari proses bisnis best practice ERP. Hasil penelitian adalah suatu aplikasi yang direkomendasikan untuk mendukung kegiatan pembelajaran ERP di tingkat universitas dan daftar kebutuhan fungsionalitas yang dibutuhkan untuk modul pembelajaran, seperti modul penjualan dan distribusi serta modul pengadaan dengan menggunakan aplikasi yang direkomendasikan sebelumnya. This study aims to analyze the comparison of the functionality of open source ERP software in the development of learning modules for the business processes of sales, distribution and procurement. This study compared three OSS ERP that are Compiere Community Edition 3.3, Openbravo Community Edition 3.0, and 3.6 xTuple PostBooks Edition. Functional needs of each module is derived from best practice business processes ERP. Hasil penelitian adalah suatu aplikasi yang direkomendasikan untuk mendukung kegiatan pembelajaran ERP di tingkat universitas dan daftar kebutuhan fungsionalitas yang dibutuhkan untuk modul pembelajaran, seperti modul penjualan dan distribusi serta modul pengadaan dengan menggunakan aplikasi yang direkomendasikan sebelumnya.

scholarly journals The commercialisation of bioinformatics and the threat of open-source software

1969 ◽  
Vol 13 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Joseph F Greco
Keyword(s):  
Open Source ◽  
Open Source Software ◽  
Value Creation ◽  
Innovation Process ◽  
Financial Ratio ◽  
Translation Model ◽  
A Value ◽  
Select Group ◽  
Five Phases ◽  
The Impact

This study investigates the commercialisation process of a select group of bioinformatics companies and the impact of open-source software. Using the research–development–application translation model provides a framework for managers as an iterative mechanism. A Value Creation Pipeline is then introduced with five phases of the commercialisation process that provide specific financial benchmarks that can guide the firm through to successful commercialisation. Using trend and financial ratio analyses relative to returns, profitability and liquidity, the study finds that the surge in open-source licenses between 2003 and 2005 limited the sales for some firms. As for the claim that open-source software negatively impacts the success of bioinformatics commercialisation, there was little evidence to suggest a direct cause-and-effect relationship. Losses in returns, profitability and liquidity were just as common before the rise of open source as after its emergence. When firms report an overall record over a nine-year period of poor return on investment, assets and equity, there is little to attract potential investors. The lesson that can be drawn is that the innovation process and financial tracking must be integrated to ensure efficient and profitable use of investor funds.

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