One of our goals for the GitHub Innovation Graph was to facilitate research on the economic impact of open source software and developer collaboration. In a paper recently published by Research Policy , four researchers used Innovation Graph data to do just that. I’m happy to share an interview with these researchers, along with our Q4 2025 data release. The Research Policy paper examines whether the geography of open-source software production on GitHub can reveal the “digital complexity” of nations, and whether that complexity predicts GDP, inequality, and emissions in ways that traditional economic data misses. Meet the four researchers: Sándor Juhász is a research fellow at the Corvinus University of Budapest. His work focuses on economic geography, knowledge networks, and how spatial structures shape innovation.…