One of the highly quoted ones and which (I suspect) has had a large impact on some in Obamaland is the Batelle analysis of the human genome, showing that 4 Billion investment led to 700 Billion downstream wealth. The update http://www.battelle.org/media/press-releases/updated-battelle-study-genetics-and-genomics-industrynow quotes over a trillion (1,000,000,000,000 USD) Of course there aren't controls - what would Venter have done if he had "won the race" and the developments requires other technologies.
On Mon, Oct 7, 2013 at 12:36 PM, Ewan Klein <ewan.kl...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi all, > > There are many arguments given in favour of open data initiatives, > including economic growth and innovation, more efficient distribution of > information, government transparency, and civic participation. However, > it's surprisingly hard to find documented evidence about the impact of such > initiatives: did they work well, and if so, in what way? Can their impact > be measured? > > This slide deck > > > https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1_uF9HSJnrS9eFgHi4gMYg1UZ_-8lfGpeutfSBd2ppKs > > gives a number of aggregated (and presumably estimated) figures for > benefits along the lines of "SME's grow 15% more with free geo data as > opposed to paid data", but there's a lack of more concrete examples such as > "the publication of clinical outcomes of heart surgery in the UK has led to > 1,000 fewer deaths per year". > > So here's the question: does anyone have more examples of cases where open > data initiatives have made a clear difference, particularly at the level of > city data? > > Thanks, > > Ewan > > ------------- > Ewan Klein > OKF Ambassador for Scotland > Skype: ewan.h.klein | @ewanhklein > The Open Knowledge Foundation > Empowering through Open Knowledge > http://scot.okfn.org/ | @okfnscot > > > _______________________________________________ > okfn-discuss mailing list > okfn-discuss@lists.okfn.org > http://lists.okfn.org/mailman/listinfo/okfn-discuss > Unsubscribe: http://lists.okfn.org/mailman/options/okfn-discuss > -- Peter Murray-Rust Reader in Molecular Informatics Unilever Centre, Dep. Of Chemistry University of Cambridge CB2 1EW, UK +44-1223-763069
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