Professionalization: EU-27 vs United States vs China
The EU-27 is keeping pace and overtaking the US considering organisational embedding intensity, which is defined as the degree
to which repositories are concentrated within organisations, rather than dispersed across isolated individual ownership,
indicating the professionalisation of the OSS ecosystem, which relates the number of GitHub repositories associated per
organisation. This measure thus captures the depth of human capital engagement and distinguishes between ecosystems characterised
by many lightly staffed repositories and those with denser collaborative structures embedded in an organisational context.
Compared to China, however, both Europe and the US are clearly lagging behind noting the development until the period 2016-2018.
The sudden drop can at least partly be attributed to the rise of Gitee, a very popular DevOps platform launched launched in 2013
by Open Source China (OSChina), a Shenzhen-based open-source software company, which is why the number of repositories as well
as the repositories per organisation experienced a decrease when looking at GitHub data only.