Program assessment in innovation ecosystems

Design and Psychometric Assessment of the Program of development and Innovation in Medical Education

Introduction: Evaluation of the Program of development and Innovation in Medical Education in Iran needs tools that can determine the successes and shortcomings of this program. The purpose of this study was to design and psychometrically evaluate the tools for measuring the evolution of innovation in medical education.    Methods: This study was designed and conducted in two stages during the...

Social Media and Innovation Ecosystems

Growth and Innovation in Platform Ecosystems

A large and growing portion of the economy transpires within software platforms. These environments are bounded high growth economies that embed many novel features: the platform owner sets rules for participation; R&D occurs rapidly, with generations of innovations building on one another; there are profit and adoption tradeoffs in open versus closed code. This paper introduces and develops a ...

Growth and Innovation in Software Ecosystems

This paper introduces and develops a new model of platform growth, inspired by the standard growth literature. At each moment in continuous time, the platform owner must choose (i) how much source code to open and make available to a developer community, (ii) how fast to absorb developer code into the platform, (iii) how much to tax developer output, and (iv) how much to invest in the platform ...

Living labs for regional innovation ecosystems

Living Labs are defined as user-centred, open innovation ecosystems based on a systematic user co-creation approach integrating research and innovation processes in real life communities and settings. In practice, Living Labs place the citizen at the centre of innovation, and have thus shown the ability to better mould the opportunities offered by new ICT concepts and solutions to the specific ...