How OSPOs can Accelerate National Innovation Agendas
summary
Argues that creating OSPOs for universities and municipalities speeds national innovation by shaping practices not just licenses and by enabling reuse via GitHub and inner source workflows. Gives concrete wins: the Irish COVID tracker is open source, gets 33% of population downloaded in first week after public review and privacy signoff. Cites research linking 1% more GitHub contributions to more ventures and deals and promotes inner source as a path to open source for skills and scalable public services.
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chapters (12)
- 0:00Start
- 0:21Introduction
- 7:01Economic Impact of Open Source
- 8:26Knowledge Transfer
- 9:35International Collaboration
- 10:29Facilitating International Collaboration
- 11:21Accelerating a National Innovation Agenda
- 18:20Open Source and Money
- 25:35The Open Source Definition
- 27:12Complex Adaptive Systems
- 30:11Benefits
- 30:52Research Translation
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