OPEN DATA AND INNOVATION ADOPTION: Lessons From Sweden Serdar Temiz Doctoral thesis submitted to the School of Industrial Engineering and Management for the fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Ph.D. in Industrial Engineering and Management KTH Royal Institute of Technology School of Industrial Engineering and Management Department of Industrial Economics and Management SE-10044 Stockholm, Sweden OPEN DATA AND INNOVATION ADOPTION: LESSONS FROM SWEDEN ISBN 978-91-7873-083-4 © Temiz, Serdar, December 2018
[email protected] Academic thesis, with permission and approval of the KTH Royal Institute of Technology, is submitted for public review and doctoral examination in fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Phi- losophy in Industrial Engineering and Management on Monday, February 22, 2019, at 09:00 in Hall F3, Lindstedtsvägen 26, KTH, Stockholm, Sweden. Printed in Sweden, Universitetsservice US-AB ii Abstract The Internet has significantly reduced the cost of producing, accessing, and using data, with governments, companies, open data advocates, and researchers observing open data’s potential for promoting democratic and innovative solutions and with open data’s global market size estimated at billions of dollars in the European Union alone (Carrara, Chan, Fischer, & Steenbergen, 2015). This thesis explores the concept of open data, describing and analyzing how open data adoption occurs to better identify and understand key challenges in this process and thus contribute to better use of the available data resources