Reflections on strengthening digital public goods institutions to promote construction of open source innovation ecosystem

Authors

Chao ZHANG, Institute of Strategic Studies, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai 200052, ChinaFollow
Ze FENG, Institutes of Science and Development, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100190, ChinaFollow
Kaihua CHEN, School of Public Policy and Management, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China
Qigang ZHU, Openatom Foundation, Beijing 100176, China

Keywords

digital public goods; open source innovation ecosystem; policy recommendations

Document Type

Policy & Management Research

Abstract

The digital public goods institutions are important foundations for promoting the development of an open source innovation ecosystem, which helps to break the key limitations faced by China’s open source innovation ecosystem, such as the lack of unity in technology routes and concentration of R&D power. Based on discussing the significance of improving digital public goods institutions, this study reviews the experience of major countries in the world in building digital public goods institutions and analyzes the prominent problems faced by the construction of China’s digital public goods institutions. This study points out that China’s open source innovation ecosystem faces problems such as a relative lack of digital public goods laws and regulations, insufficient improvement of the operation mechanism of digital public goods, and insufficient independent innovation of key digital public goods, which seriously impedes the high-level and sustainable development of the open source innovation ecosystem. It is urgent to accelerate the construction of digital public goods institutions from the construction of laws and regulations, the improvement of operation and management mechanisms, and the feedback of enterprises to the ecosystem and other dimensions to support the development of an open source innovation ecosystem.

First page

1944

Last Page

1955

Language

Chinese

Publisher

Bulletin of Chinese Academy of Sciences

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Recommended Citation

ZHANG, Chao; FENG, Ze; CHEN, Kaihua; and ZHU, Qigang (2024) "Reflections on strengthening digital public goods institutions to promote construction of open source innovation ecosystem," Bulletin of Chinese Academy of Sciences (Chinese Version): Vol. 39 : Iss. 11 , Article 13.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.16418/j.issn.1000-3045.20240301003
Available at: https://bulletinofcas.researchcommons.org/journal/vol39/iss11/13