The Open Data Movement. Internet20201.jpg (JPEG Image, 1450x4935 pixels) - Scaled (13. Smartphone sales and statistics. By Mark Brownlow, October 2012 (first published June 2010) inShare90 Jump to: Smartphone stats Recent sales stats (global): IDC say 153.9 million smartphones sold worldwide in Q2 2012. Recent sales stats (US and Canada): Nielsen report that 54.9% of US mobile phone owners have a smartphone as of Q2 2012. comScore estimate that smartphone ownership in the US reached 110 million users by May 2012 (3-month average). Recent sales stats (UK and mainland Europe): IDC say 27.4 million smartphones sold in Western Europe in Q2 2012. Sales predictions: The Financial Times cites a JPMorgan prediction that 657 million smartphones will leave stores in 2012. Smartphone operating systems IDC looked at global smartphone shipments in Q2 2012, placing Android well out in front in terms of operating system share: Source: IDC Worldwide Mobile Phone Tracker, August 8, 2012 Gartner's analysis of global Q2 2012 smartphone sales also shows the Android operating system dominating market share: Source: Nielsen (July 2012)
Open-innovation-nerac. 2006-11-20-flossimpact_en. Data for open innovation research. To promote his third book, Open Business Models, Henry Chesbrough was interviewed for PDMA Visions, the newsletter of the Product Development and Management Association. As the founder of the open innovation paradigm, Chesbrough offers an important update on the practice of open innovation. The questions are mainly about how firms can apply open innovation, as would be expected given the interviewer and publication.
It is a useful update both for firms and business students to understand the open innovation phenomenon. However, Chesbrough also suggests for US scholars a new opportunity for future research on open innovation: The National Science Foundation [NSF] reported data on extramural R&D (where the company paid for it, but the work was conducted outside of the company) and on collaborative R&D (where a company worked with another organization on an R&D project). The availability of data is obviously crucial for large-scale empirical research on open innovation. Can Open Innovation Solve Pharma’s Productivity Crisis?