What is Openness

The degree to which a problem is “well-defined” (e.g., all the information is at hand for the problem solver) vs. “ill-defined” (e.g., the problem solver must discover or generate new information in order for the problem to be solved).

The degree to which the system exhibits its own strategy.

Being able to be receptive to anything new.

Quality of being open, transparent and available.

Open-mindedness, an ability or tendency to seek out new things, and an appreciation of beauty, curiosity, and variety. Its opposite is closed-mindedness.

Sensitivity towards fantasy, feelings, aesthetics, ideas, actions and values ( McCrae, 1987 ).

It refers to an employee's openness to exchanging information, understanding what is happening, and appreciating. However, it also entails being responsive to and expecting various working methods, assessments, and feedback.

Openness in this work refers to an approach or mindset for working with others designing, and the like, and is used in this chapter as a proxy for transparency.

A networked approach that advocates providing free, digital educational materials under an open license.

A measure of the freedom to search, collect, and exchange governmental information related to public services or to the bureaucratic structure.

Openness refers to the outward or inward orientation of a given country's economy. Outward orientation refers to economies that take significant advantage of the opportunities to trade with other countries. Inward orientation refers to economies that overlook taking or are unable to take advantage of the opportunities to trade with other countries. Some of the trade policy decisions made by countries that empower outward or inward orientation are trade barriers, import-export, infrastructure, technologies, scale economies and market competitiveness. The degree of global trade openness existing in countries is measured on a number of economic issues and tracked in the Open Markets Index (OMI).