What is open source innovation? An economic, social, artifact, and innovation-incentive perspective with implications for firms

Publikationstyp
Book Part
Date Issued
2015-02-11
Sprache
English
Author(s)
Ehls, Daniel  
Herstatt, Cornelius  
Institut
Technologie- und Innovationsmanagement W-7  
TORE-URI
http://hdl.handle.net/11420/7252
Start Page
1
End Page
26
Citation
Open Source Innovation: The Phenomenon, Participant's Behaviour, Business Implications: 1-26 (2015-02-11)
Publisher DOI
10.4324/9781315754482
Scopus ID
2-s2.0-84959909495
Publisher
Routledge
ISBN
978-1-138-80202-5
The open source phenomenon has gained tremendous traction within praxis and theory. Thereby various concept now dilute the phenomenon and mix different perspectives. This contribution aims to provide an introduction and overview to the concept open source innovation. An open source taxonomy is offered viewing the phenomenon from an economic perspective, concentrating on openness and free revealing, a social perspective, highlighting collaboration and movements, artifacts, differentiating terminology and classifications, and finally a theoretical view delivering an innovationincentive perspective. Based on this understanding, participation drawbacks and benefits for firms and individual contributors are shown and strategies for managing open source innovation provided.
Subjects
Open source
Review
Taxonomy
DDC Class
600: Technology