Open Growth

2018 ◽  
pp. 164-197
Author(s):  
Roya Ghafele ◽  
Benjamin Gibert
Keyword(s):  
Software Development ◽  
Open Innovation ◽  
Labour Force ◽  
Economic Consequences ◽  
Production Model ◽  
Knowledge Based ◽  
The Us ◽  
Publishing Education ◽  
Open Production ◽  
Open Growth

Open source software (OSS) is well established in sectors as diverse as aviation, health, telecommunications, finance, publishing, education, and government. As nations increasingly rely on knowledge assets to grow, the adoption of OSS will have profound economic consequences. This chapter identifies the mechanisms inherent to OSS production that help fuel innovation in knowledge-based economies. As a collaborative and open production model, OSS is conceptualized as a prototype of open innovation. OSS-related software development jobs are widely diffused throughout the economy, help build a skilled labour force, and offer wages significantly above the national average. OSS is thus believed to be a strong contributor to growth in high-value employment in the US. The authors also posit that, as industries are exposed to the benefits of OSS as a result of the broad diffusion of OSS-related jobs, open innovation processes outside software development may be adopted through a process of learning and imitation.

Open Growth

2014 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 16-49 ◽  
Author(s):  
Roya Ghafele ◽  
Benjamin Gibert
Keyword(s):  
Software Development ◽  
Open Innovation ◽  
Positive Impact ◽  
Labour Force ◽  
Economic Consequences ◽  
Production Model ◽  
Knowledge Based ◽  
Us Economy ◽  
The Us ◽  
Publishing Education

Open Source Software (OSS) is well established in sectors as diverse as aviation, health, telecommunications, finance, publishing, education, and government. As nations increasingly rely on knowledge assets to grow, the adoption of OSS will have profound economic consequences. This paper identifies the mechanisms inherent to OSS production that help fuel innovation in knowledge-based economies. As a collaborative and open production model, OSS is conceptualized as a prototype of open innovation. Drawing on US employment projections for 2008-2018, the authors' analysis predicts OSS will have a positive impact on employment growth in well-paid salary jobs across multiple sectors of the US economy. OSS-related software development jobs are widely diffuse throughout the economy, help build a skilled labour force and offer wages significantly above the national average. OSS is thus believed to be a strong contributor to growth in high-value employment in the US. The authors also posit that, as industries are exposed to the benefits of OSS as a result of the broad diffusion of OSS-related jobs, open innovation processes outside software development may be adopted through a process of learning and imitation.

Open Growth

2015 ◽  
pp. 528-560
Author(s):  
Roya Ghafele ◽  
Benjamin Gibert
Keyword(s):  
Software Development ◽  
Open Innovation ◽  
Positive Impact ◽  
Labour Force ◽  
Economic Consequences ◽  
Production Model ◽  
Knowledge Based ◽  
Us Economy ◽  
The Us ◽  
Publishing Education

Open Source Software (OSS) is well established in sectors as diverse as aviation, health, telecommunications, finance, publishing, education, and government. As nations increasingly rely on knowledge assets to grow, the adoption of OSS will have profound economic consequences. This paper identifies the mechanisms inherent to OSS production that help fuel innovation in knowledge-based economies. As a collaborative and open production model, OSS is conceptualized as a prototype of open innovation. Drawing on US employment projections for 2008-2018, the authors' analysis predicts OSS will have a positive impact on employment growth in well-paid salary jobs across multiple sectors of the US economy. OSS-related software development jobs are widely diffuse throughout the economy, help build a skilled labour force and offer wages significantly above the national average. OSS is thus believed to be a strong contributor to growth in high-value employment in the US. The authors also posit that, as industries are exposed to the benefits of OSS as a result of the broad diffusion of OSS-related jobs, open innovation processes outside software development may be adopted through a process of learning and imitation.

A dragon eating its own tail: public control of air pollution information in China

2018 ◽  
Vol 24 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-22 ◽  
Author(s):  
Chiara Ravetti ◽  
Tim Swanson ◽  
Yana Jin ◽  
Quan Mu ◽  
Shiqiu Zhang
Keyword(s):  
Air Pollution ◽  
Labour Force ◽  
Public Information ◽  
Household Survey ◽  
Government Control ◽  
Alternative Source ◽  
The Us ◽  
The Media ◽  
Public Signal ◽  
Beijing China

AbstractThis paper analyses the implications of government control over public information about air pollution. First, we model the incentives for a local government with control over the media to affect popular perception concerning pollution. We argue that biased announcements can influence the inflows of labour force in a municipality beyond economic factors. Then, we examine some evidence on information misreporting in the context of Beijing, China. We show that official air pollution announcements diverge systematically from an alternative source of information, provided by the US Embassy. The results point at a manipulation of popular perception consistent with the motives indicated in our model. Furthermore, using an original household survey, we examine whether the distorted public signal affects agents' behaviour. We find that households that depend upon government-controlled media are significantly less responsive to pollution peaks.

scholarly journals Outside Practices: Learning within the borderlands

2009 ◽  
pp. 5-18 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sondra Cuban
Keyword(s):  
Social Practice ◽  
Meaning Making ◽  
Practice Research ◽  
Knowledge Based ◽  
Learning Contexts ◽  
Educational Philosophies ◽  
Marginalised Groups ◽  
The Us

Social practice research can be seen to illuminate the practices of marginalised learners in ‘borderlands’, areas outside of formal educational frameworks. This paper examines the issues and challenges of social practice researchers as they explore borderlands logic set against a critique of the prevailing skills-based educational philosophies that dominate in the knowledge-based economies of the US and England. Social practice research highlights meaning-making through a wide-angled view of the learning contexts of marginalised groups. This paper introduces the themes and sets the scene in a series of papers in this volume from leading social practice researchers.

Economic consequences of ACS-related rehospitalizations in the US

2009 ◽  
Vol 26 (2) ◽  
pp. 329-336 ◽  
Author(s):  
Karina Berenson ◽  
Augustina Ogbonnaya ◽  
Roman Casciano ◽  
Dinara Makenbaeva ◽  
Essy Mozaffari ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Economic Consequences ◽  
The Us

scholarly journals Organizational learning capability and open innovation

2018 ◽  
Vol 56 (6) ◽  
pp. 1217-1231 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marta Peris-Ortiz ◽  
Carlos Alberto Devece-Carañana ◽  
Antonio Navarro-Garcia
Keyword(s):  
Organizational Learning ◽  
Open Innovation ◽  
Dynamic Capabilities ◽  
Qualitative Comparative Analysis ◽  
Incremental Innovation ◽  
Learning Capability ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Knowledge Based ◽  
Learning Factors ◽  
The Relationship

PurposeThe purpose of this paper is to investigate the relationship between open innovation (OI) and radical and incremental innovation success in knowledge-based companies. The company’s human resources and organizational learning capability are considered as the fundamental nexus of this relationship.Design/methodology/approachAt the conceptual level, the paper analyzes the relationships between dynamic capabilities and OI and between OI and innovation success. Fuzzy-set qualitative comparative analysis (fsQCA) was used to study how innovation is implemented in 29 companies.FindingsFsQCA identifies combinations of factors that facilitate incremental innovations. These combinations reveal the path to implementing company policies that enable incremental innovation and foster radical innovation.Research limitations/implicationsThe nature of the study sample means that the findings should be generalized with precaution. The most valuable implication is the identification of combinations of factors that help companies manage innovation.Originality/valueScarce literature links organizational learning factors and OI to different types of innovation. The use of fsQCA to analyze the cases also marks a breakthrough in the innovation literature.

How does open innovation affect firms’ innovative performance

2018 ◽  
Vol 12 (4) ◽  
pp. 720-740 ◽  
Author(s):  
Huiping Zhou ◽  
Yanhong Yao ◽  
Huanhuan Chen
Keyword(s):  
Open Innovation ◽  
Hierarchical Regression ◽  
Moderating Effects ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Innovative Performance ◽  
Knowledge Based ◽  
Opportunistic Behaviour ◽  
Proposed Model ◽  
New Finding ◽  
The Relationship

Purpose This paper aims to explore the direct effects of open innovation (OI) on firms’ innovative performance, and to examine the moderating effects of knowledge attributes, including knowledge distance, knowledge embeddedness and partner opportunism on this relationship. Design/methodology/approach Survey data of 247 samples from China were used to test the proposed model through hierarchical regression analysis. Findings The findings indicate that the dimensions of OI are positively related to innovative performance. The results also reveal that knowledge distance positively moderates the relationship between inbound OI and innovative performance, whereas knowledge embeddedness negatively affects that relationship. Knowledge embeddedness negatively affects the relationship between inbound OI and innovative performance, whereas knowledge distance positively moderates that relationship. Thus, a new finding is proposed that knowledge attributes could align effectively with specific OI type to achieve superior innovation outcomes. In addition, the empirical results suggest that partner opportunism plays a negative moderating role on the relationship between outbound OI and innovative performance. Originality/value The proposed view that a firm’s innovation outputs will be superior when its knowledge attributes effectively align with OI enriches studies of the OI context and expands the literature of both the resource-based view and the knowledge-based view. Furthermore, this study provides insights into how OI benefits can be influenced by external contexts from the perspective of partners’ opportunistic behaviour.

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