Open Source / Open Content \ Open Innovation
This is how OpenMind-conference announces it's areas of interests. There will be a Developer Day (Chris DiBona: Google, Brian Chan: Liferay, Jarkko Laine: Ruby on Rails etc) and a Business Day (Markus Rex: Novell, John Buckman: Magnatune, Eirik Chambe-Eng: Trolltech etc). My colleague, Tere (Vadén) will have a talk as well.
I am glad that open innovation plays such a central role in the Openmind conference (thanks, Petri (Räsänen) and COSS folks :-). I am eager to participate. Within open innovation, one central topic is Free Revealing. What????
I let the experts define it: "When my colleagues and I say that an innovator “freely reveals” proprietary information, we mean that all intellectual property rights to that information are voluntarily given up by that innovator and all parties are given equal access to it—the information becomes a public good" (Harhoff, Henkel & von Hippel 2003)
Why on earth should anyone reveal their innovation for free? Von Hippel replies: "When benefits from free revealing exceed the benefits that are practically obtainable from holding an innovation secret or licensing it, free revealing should be the preferred course of action for a profit-seeking firm or individual." (von Hippel, 2005, 81)
To me this idea of free revealing separates Eric von Hippel's view from Henry Chesbrough's view, at least when we are talking about open innovation!? (In my previous posting I described those Chesbrough's interesting elements of Open Innovation).
In the open source context I recommend the latest MISQ article about Open Source 2 (OS 2.0) from Brian Fitzgerald. This article is called: "The Transformation of Open Source Software". It explains how commercial companies set up and support open source projects and why OS 2.0 is nowadays far away from the activity of hackers and enthusiasts (only)!
Disagree or agree: Free Releaving and Open Innovation? Any comments about the Openmind confence?
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