Mapping public innovation priorities is important for policy makers and stakeholders, allowing them to explore the potential for collaboration and to better understand innovation dynamics. This working paper presents original data on innovation strategies for smart specialisation (RIS3) in...

The welcome rise of replication tests in economics has not been accompanied by a single, clear definition of replication. A discrepant replication, in current usage of the term, can signal anything from an unremarkable disagreement over methods to scientific incompetence or misconduct. This...

В статье представлен научный обзор правовых основ, а также методов и механизмов деятельности открытого правительства в Соединенных Штатах Америки.

This paper provides an overview of the history of development research at the World Bank and points to new future directions in both what we research and how we research. Six main messages emerge. First, research and data have long been essential elements of the Bank’s country programs and its...

Science-intensive firms are experimenting with ‘open data’ initiatives, involving collaboration with academic scientists whereby all results are published with no restriction. Firms seeking to benefit from open data face two key challenges: revealing R&D problems may leak valuable...

The Millennium Villages Project is a high profile, multi-country development project that has aimed to serve as a model for ending rural poverty in sub-Saharan Africa. The project became the subject of controversy when the methodological basis of early claims of success was questioned. The...

Open Science is an umbrella term that encompasses a multitude of assumptions about the future of knowledge creation and dissemination. Based on a literature review, this paper aims at structuring the overall discourse by proposing five Open Science schools of thought: The infrastructure school...

Public sector information contains great value for the citizens in general. Data stored on computers of public institutions doesn’t have value on its own. It has to be processed and analyzed to obtain information, and further on, information should be made available as public good, in order to...

Les Open Data constitueraient un nouveau contenu favorisant le développement de la e-démocratie et de l'administration électronique. En nous appuyant sur l'analyse des sites internet et Open Data de trois villes de plus de 200 000 habitants, nous avons essayé de mettre en évidence...