Open Source Projects = Horizontal innovation networks - by and for users
Wednesday, 29 April 2009 | 
John A Morrison
Eric von Hippel. MIT Sloan School of Management
ABSTRACT
Innovation development, production, distribution and consumption networks can
be built up horizontally – with actors consisting only of innovation users (more
precisely, “user/self-manufacturers”). Some open source software projects are
examples of such networks, and examples can be found in the case of physical
products as well. In this paper we discuss three conditions under which user
innovation networks can function entirely independently of manufacturers. We
then explore related empirical evidence and conclude that conditions favorable to
horizontal user innovation networks are often present in the economy.
http://web.mit.edu/evhippel/www/papers/Horiz%20User%20Innov%20Networks%20ICC%20Final.pdf
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