Research Data Recycling through Open Sharing and Reuse: A Case Study of Sustainable Digital Good Consumption in the Sharing Economy

Abstract

<jats:p>In order to meet the needs of an increasingly complex research landscape, researchers engage in &amp;ldquo;collaborative prosumption&amp;rdquo; through open data sharing and reuse. Although significant gains have been achieved in this regards because of growing requirements from funding agencies, governments and journals, the question of how reuse of openly available data for new research contribute to sustainability is yet to be appropriately addressed in the literature. Therefore, relying on a three stage stratified clustered random sampling of the Journal of Applied Econometrics data archive (JAEDA), the present research provides a case study of the value of research data recycling for sustainable research and economic development. More specifically our analysis show that reformatting from wide to long format, openly shared equity price index data on eleven European countries&amp;rsquo; extracted from JAEDA, and augmented with country level geospatial Meta data, provides a new basis for interesting descriptive analytics and spatio-temporal econometric modeling and inference. Given the ever-increasing volume of openly available research data, our study provides a first-hand insight on open data reuse, which should benefit all stakeholders in the research community, as they seek sustainable solutions for scientific productivity and progress.</jats:p>

Technology Sharing Decisions Digital Technologies and Sharing Economy

“…Digital sharing economy is escalating significance collective solutions comprise effects in developing countries (Niankara, 2020). The areas include: employment and income generation; natural resources stewardship; asset sharing; exchanging knowledge, education as well as professional establishment; crowd funding; new community -driven technological revolutions; disaster relief; and civic engagement.…”