The Wealth of (Open Data) Nations? Examining the Interplay of Open Government Data and Country-level Institutions for Entrepreneurial Activity at the Country-level

Abstract

SEEDS is an interuniversity research centre. It develops research and higher education projects in the fields of ecological and environmental economics, with a special focus on the role of policy and innovation. Main fields of action are environmental policy, economics of innovation, energy economics and policy, economic evaluation by stated preference techniques, waste management and policy, climate change and development.The SEEDS Working Paper Series are indexed in RePEc and Google Scholar. Papers can be downloaded free of charge from the following websites: http://www.sustainability-seeds.org/.

Presenting an open data management (ecosystem) model with developing innovative information flow approach in Iranian knowledge-based companies

“…Open data timelines. Open data timelines indicate that open data are updated every now and then (Huber et al, 2020). If open data are regularly updated, they increase entrepreneurial opportunities for two reasons.…”

“…High-quality institutions can facilitate good relationships between government open data providers and the user community, through holding innovation workshops (Juell-Skielse et al, 2014). This helps improve entrepreneurs' understanding of the value of open data to identify opportunities to be utilized (Huber et al, 2020).…”

“…The frequency of open data yields more opportunities and more benefits for better use because the more frequent the open data, the more the number of potential opportunities (Berends et al , 2017). Second, when the data are regularly updated, they will be regarded a rich resource, and the more likely they are used for various reasons (Huber et al , 2020).…”

“…Although open data is free, utilizing them requires investment in resources. If an open-source data source is not available in the future, the entrepreneur may not provide his/her desired program or services, because when open data are removed, new products and services will not be available and professional development opportunities will be lost (Huber et al , 2020).…”

“…In addition, mistrust in the public sector's commitment to constantly providing open data in the future may lower the level of entrepreneurial activity because the future accessibility of open data is critical for return on investment. The ineffective impacts of low-quality institutions on training and development of skills may eliminate entrepreneurial competence (Huber et al , 2020). Ineffective institutional impacts mean that there will be fewer entrepreneurs to use open data for innovation, because low-quality institutions have lowered the capabilities required in the digital economy (e.g.…”