Abstract
Now-a-days open data is in high demand worldwide due to
the possibility of creating innovative digital services
and applications around open data. This paper discusses
the open data from the business perspective; about the
status of information usage in companies and motivation,
opportunities and obstacles that relate to the open data
based business. We carried out 11 interviews with company
representatives to receive up-to-date information
directly from the industry and to study the status of the
information usage in industry to estimate how far the
current business is from the open data based business. It
seems that open data enables new business opportunities
for actors providing data and for actors consuming data
but also requires a new kind of business ecosystem that
enables a win-win situation for all the actors in the
open data ecosystem. The interviewed companies were
highly interested in utilising open data in their own
business but were afraid of opening their own data. In
addition, the open data is often understood to be data
that the actors of a public sector provide to the actors
of a private sector. Thus, though there is high interest
in open data, a lot of work must still be done to enable
open data based business. In the end of the paper there
are assembled research topics to which the attention
should be paid in the future
Original language | English |
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Pages (from-to) | 286-296 |
Journal | International Journal of Research in Business and Technology |
Volume | 4 |
Issue number | 1 |
DOIs | |
Publication status | Published - 2014 |
MoE publication type | A1 Journal article-refereed |
Keywords
- Open data
- business ecosystem