Outcome-driven open innovation at NASA

Data-Driven Innovation through Open Government Data

The exponentially growing production of data and the social trend towards openness and sharing are powerful forces that are changing the global economy and society. Governments around the world have become active participants in this evolution, opening up their data for access and re-use by public and private agents alike. The phenomenon of Open Government Data has spread around the world in th...

Web 2.0 driven Open Innovation Networks

The Effect of Property Rights on Entrepreneurship:Evidence from Some Factor-driven, Efficiency-driven, and Innovation-driven Countries

Entrepreneurship is influenced by many factors and environments such as institutions. Institutions have an important role to play in the individual's tendency toward necessity and opportunity entrepreneurship. The purpose of this paper was to examine the impact of institutional quality (property rights) on opportunity and necessity entrepreneurship. The results, based on unbalanced panel data f...

Requirements Management at NASA

Requirements have always been acknowledged as the backbone of any system. However, in many past development efforts, requirements were paid little heed. At NASA, in recent years, the hue and cry for project development has been “Faster, Better, Cheaper and Safer”. This has impacted the way we develop software; it has increased the risks to quality, safety and reliability. At NASA, the Software ...

Innovation Pathways in Bureaucratic Organizations: a Process Study of Technology Infusion at Nasa

This paper uses a longitudinal case study of the infusion of new infrared sensor technology at NASA to illustrate limitations of current conceptual models of the innovation process in large bureaucratic organizations. Based on in-depth interviews with key participants, supplemented by a review of project reports, contract archives, publications and press coverage, the paper constructs a detaile...