206 research outputs found
Innovation Process Benefits: The Journey as Reward
When business executives and economists think about whether developing an innovation will be worthwhile, they tend to focus on the economic value of the outcome of the innovation process. “Will we earn enough profit from using or selling X innovation to justify the money and time required to develop it?” is, in effect, the question they ask
From experience: Developing new product concepts via the lead user method: A case study in a "low-tech" field
Measuring user innovation in Dutch high tech SMEs: Frequency, nature and transfer to producers
The major shift towards user-centered innovation: Implications for China’s innovation policymaking
Open Source Software and the “Private-Collective” Innovation Model: Issues for Organization Science
Currently two models of innovation are prevalent in organization science. The "private investment"
model assumes returns to the innovator results from private goods and efficient regimes of
intellectual property protection. The "collective action" model assumes that under conditions of
market failure, innovators collaborate in order to produce a public good. The phenomenon of open
source software development shows that users program to solve their own as well as shared technical
problems, and freely reveal their innovations without appropriating private returns from selling the
software. In this paper we propose that open source software development is an exemplar of a
compound model of innovation that contains elements of both the private investment and the
collective action models. We describe a new set of research questions this model raises for scholars in
organization science. We offer some details regarding the types of data available for open source
projects in order to ease access for researchers who are unfamiliar with these, and als
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