The potential of data to circulate across organizations and sectors and stimulate innovation in multiple contexts has been largely acknowledged by practitioners and researchers. This has given rise to a specific form of innovation strategy, “data-push innovation”, which consists of stimulating the use of existing data by third-party actors. However, how to manage such a strategy remains challenging. The paper explores this question by examining the longitudinal case study of an actor that has successfully stimulated the use of Earth observation data by multiple actors over the last 40 years. The paper offers several contributions to research in information systems and innovation management. First, the paper shows that data-push innovation can be fostered through the intentional design of a so-called “fit system” allowing data to be used in multiple contexts. Such a fit system can be built as a generic system, following similar “generification” strategies as those supporting platform or software development but with original patterns to adapt to the specificities of data-push innovation. Second, the paper characterizes the types of “boundary resources” needed to support this process. These boundary resources especially have a two-way resourcing function: they help third-party actors contribute to the fit system development, but they also allow the fit system owner to identify the knowledge boundaries preventing data from gaining meaning in new contexts. Third, the paper reveals an intriguing form of localized and nondominant platform leadership, focusing on gaining generative power rather than controlling power over the platform ecosystem.

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超越偶然性的数据推动创新：数字平台使地球观测数据适应多种使用环境的案例

数据在组织和部门之间流通以及在多种背景下刺激创新的潜力已得到从业者和研究人员的广泛认可。这催生了一种特定形式的创新战略，即“数据推动创新”，其中包括刺激第三方参与者对现有数据的使用。然而，如何管理这样的策略仍然具有挑战性。本文通过研究一个参与者的纵向案例研究来探讨这个问题，该参与者在过去 40 年里成功地刺激了多个参与者对地球观测数据的使用。该论文对信息系统和创新管理的研究做出了一些贡献。首先，该论文表明，可以通过有意设计所谓的“适合系统”来促进数据推动创新，该系统允许数据在多种环境中使用。这样的适配系统可以构建为通用系统，遵循与支持平台或软件开发类似的“通用化”策略，但具有原始模式以适应数据推送创新的特殊性。其次，本文描述了支持这一过程所需的“边界资源”类型。这些边界资源尤其具有双向资源功能：它们帮助第三方参与者为适配系统开发做出贡献，但它们也允许适配系统所有者识别知识边界，防止数据在新环境中获得意义。第三，本文揭示了一种有趣的本地化和非主导性平台领导力形式，其重点是获得生成力而不是对平台生态系统的控制力。