Return on investment for open source scientific hardware development

[Maximizing return on investment for public health with open-source medical hardware].

Return on Investment in Workforce Development Programs

Under more and more fiscal scrutiny because of shrinking state and local budgets, workforce development programs are being asked to estimate their return on investment (ROI). This paper introduces basic concepts of ROI in workforce development programs. It distinguishes ROIs estimated for workforce programs from those that are estimated for financial investments or capital projects. The paper f...

Estimating return on leadership development investment

When making capital investment decisions organizational leaders are trained to consider the financial return on investment. Yet, the same expectation typically does not exist for investments in leadership training. We suggest that decisions regarding leadership training and development ought to use a similar approach as the process leads to organizations incurring cost for an anticipated benefi...

Access to Scientific Research: The Return on the Taxpayer's Investment

For centuries, academia maintained a vice-like grip on information, mostly with its specialized language, but recently more with its exclusivity. (They do not call it the ivory tower for nothing.) Aside from what is read in newspapers, the general populace generally cannot access scientific research in its original publication form, despite those articles being the main currency by which academ...

Open Source Hardware

The open source software movement has had an enormous impact on today’s techonology. We see this more and more in recent years. It has aided academic research, it has changed the way many tech companies do business, and it has changed our society. More recently (though not for the first time), the idea of open source hardware has been getting a lot of attention. The purpose of this paper is to ...