Appendices
Authors
- Jack Hardinges
- Jamie Fawcett
- Elpida Prasopoulou
- Tom Heath
- Jeni Tennison
- Ellen Broad
- Amanda Smith
Editor
- Anna Scott
Web production
- Kathryn Corrick
- Phil Lang
Acknowledgements
We would like to acknowledge the contribution to this research of:
- All featured companies, survey and interview participants
- Contributors to the database of open data companies
- The GovLab's Open Data 500 team, on whose work some of our survey questions were based
- Members of the ODI team: Anna Scott, Emma Thwaites, Gavin Starks, Helen Desmond, Jeni Tennison, Kathryn Corrick and Phil Lang
- The OpenDataMonitor project, funded by the European Union's Seventh Framework Programme for research, technological development and demonstration under grant agreement no 611988, which has supported this research in part.
List of interview participants
- Adzuna: James Neave, Head of Data Science
- Arup: Volker Buscher, Director
- Doorda: Clifford McDowell, CEO & Founder
- FoodTrade: Ed Dowding, CEO & Founder
- Geolytix: Sarah Hitchcock, Partner
- Mime Consulting: Steve Preston, Director
- Open Utility: James Johnston, CEO & Co-Founder
- OpenCorporates: Chris Taggart, CEO & Co-Founder
- OpenSensors.io: Yodit Stanton, CEO & Founder
- Shoothill: Rod Plummer, Managing Director
- Spend Network: Ian Makgill, Managing Director
- Swirrl: Bill Roberts, Founder
Related resources
All resources are provided under a Creative Commons - Attribution 4.0 (CC BY 4.0) licence.
Database of open data companies
- View as a Google Sheet.
- Download all tables as .xlsx.
- Please visit spreadsheet to download individual tables in .csv format.
Tables featured or referenced in the report
- View as Google Sheet.
- Download all tables as .xlsx or .pdf.
- Please visit spreadsheet to download individual tables in .csv format.
Survey sent to participating open data companies
- View as Google Doc.
- Available to download as .pdf.
- All graphics are made available on GitHub
Licensing attributions
The summary and section on the diversity of open data companies contain:
- Maps which use map tiles by Stamen Design, under CC BY 3.0. Data by OpenStreetMap, under ODbL (Open Data Commons Open Database License).
The section on the diversity of open data companies and appendices tables contain:
- Analysis adapted from data from the Office for National Statistics licensed under the Open Government Licence v.3.0.
- UK Business: Activity, Size and Location, 2013
- Analysis of country and regional distribution (for Great Britain) and the London borough distribution based on data from the Office for National Statistics licensed under the Open Government Licence and the Ordnance Survey OpenData Licence.
- National Statistics Postcode Lookup (NSPL) Feb 2015
Public database contains:
- Data from, and data adapted from, Companies House.
- Data adapted from data from the Office for National Statistics licensed under the Open Government Licence v.3.0
- ONS broad industry groups from UK Business: Activity, Size and Location, 2013
- UK SIC Code 2007 from UK Standard Industrial Classification of Economic Activities 2007 (UK SIC 2007) - Summary of structure
How to cite this report
Please cite this report as: Open Data Institute (2015) Open data means business: UK innovation across sectors and regions. London, UK. Available at open-data-means-business-uk-innovation-sectors-regions