Table 5 Analysis of Calendar Reform as an In-sourcing-type Open Innovation
NIS Constituents | Description of case |
|---|---|
Innovative Agent | Government of the Ancient Rome (centered around scientific and technological agents) |
Innovative activity | Innovation through in-sourcing by the replacement and adoption of a solar calendar in the place of the existing lunar calendar and its unscientific corrective mechanisms to provide the standardized time and precision |
Standardization of time through the usage and distribution of precise and scientific calendar | |
Government Support Policies | Policies recruiting and supporting the scientists and mathematicians (basic scientists from Egypt and Greece) for the reformation process. |
Environmental and institutional context | By taking in various academic knowledge (engineering, mathematics, science, philosophy, etc.) from the conquered lands, academic progress had already been in motion. |
Rome had already received talented individuals in a wide field of knowledge, including the basic sciences, and had formed a talented pool of researchers beforehand. |