Collective Innovation in Open Source Hardware

Abstract

A growing community that shares digital 3D designs has created an opportunity to study, encourage and stimulate innovation. This remix community allows people not only to prototype at a minimal cost but also to work on projects they are genuinely interested in. Participants free of the limitations typically imposed by formal organizations develop products driven by their own interest.Comment: To appear in the proceedings of Collective Intelligence 2014 (Boston, June 10-12 2014