Open Source Innovation

% Remco Bloemen % 2014-09-17

PhD Candidate : Remco Bloemen MSc. MASt. <remco@coblue.eu>

Supervisor : Dr. Chintan Amrit <c.amrit@utwente.nl>

Supervisor : Prof. Dr. Jos van Hillegersberg <j.vanhillegersberg@utwente.nl>

Department : Department of Information Systems and Change Management

Research Title : Open Source Innovation

Introduction

There is little doubt about the importance of technology for human prosperity. From spear-hunting to space exploration, technology has allowed us to transcend our roots as hairless primates. Fast forward to our current state of a 7.5 billion population keeping the Maltusian catastrophe at bay using ever advancing technology. There are signs that we are now close to (or already beyond?) the carrying capacity of our planet. We now find ourselves at the mercy of this force of advancing technology. So far, technology appears merciful: Moore’s law seems to hold in a wide range of areas and bring us increasingly better lives. It has come so far that thinkers/futurists/prophets are warning about the impeding singularity, the point where technology will outpass its creator. I will not speculate on this for now, and instead focus on the process itself.

So what really is this force of advancing technology? Economists have called the increase in societies technological prowess innovation.

• The control over innovation is a source of geopolitical struggle.

• Intellectual property law is a major factor in that

  • NL generates income on tax free royalties

  • US patent system is a big mess

  • Kodak - Instagram

• Intellectual property protection is not a product of rational economics.

• Innovation research has a blind spot

Research goals and questions

Goals: In order to fully understand innovation we need an overarching theory of open source innovation.

• What is the economic value of open source innovation?

Literature review

• Capitalism, Socialism and Democracy — Joseph Schumpeter

  • Schumpeter got creative destruction out of Marx his works.

  • The Austrian-American economist and political scientist Schumpeter

• — Henry Chesbrough

• The Cathedral and the Bazaar — Eric S. Raymond

• Wikinomics: How Mass Collaboration Changes Everything — Don Tapscott, Anthony D. Williams

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open-source-appropriate_technology

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Appropedia

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Appropriate_technology

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sustainable_development

• “Design for the Other 90%”

Aims and objectives

Methodology

• Theory

• Data

Ethical Considerations

Budget and funding

Timeline

+--------------------+--------------------+--------------------+--------------------+ | Period | Planning | Deliverables | +====================+====================+====================+====================+ | 2014 | Q1 | | Short papers | | | | | Gentoo portage | | | | | data set and | | | | | Bass-Diffusion for | | | | | MSR | +--------------------+--------------------+--------------------+--------------------+ | Q2 | | Random sample | | | | based hypothesis | | | | testing | +--------------------+--------------------+--------------------+--------------------+ | Q3 | | Article | | | | Bass-Diffusion for | | | | EMSE, PhD proposal | +--------------------+--------------------+--------------------+--------------------+ | Q4 | | | +--------------------+--------------------+--------------------+--------------------+ | 2015 | Q1 | | | +--------------------+--------------------+--------------------+--------------------+ | Q2 | | | +--------------------+--------------------+--------------------+--------------------+ | Q3 | | | +--------------------+--------------------+--------------------+--------------------+ | Q4 | | | +--------------------+--------------------+--------------------+--------------------+ | 2016 | Q1 | | | +--------------------+--------------------+--------------------+--------------------+ | Q2 | | | +--------------------+--------------------+--------------------+--------------------+ | Q3 | | | +--------------------+--------------------+--------------------+--------------------+ | Q4 | | | +--------------------+--------------------+--------------------+--------------------+ | 2017 | Q1 | | | +--------------------+--------------------+--------------------+--------------------+ | Q2 | | | +--------------------+--------------------+--------------------+--------------------+ | Q3 | | | +--------------------+--------------------+--------------------+--------------------+ | Q4 | | | +--------------------+--------------------+--------------------+--------------------+

• Mostly open-ended explorative

• Could be final publication in book form, or just articles

Conclusion

• http://www.utwente.nl/igs/ Institute for Innovation and Governance Studies

• http://www.utwente.nl/mb/cstm/ Department of Governance and Technology for Sustainability (CSTM)

• http://www.utwente.nl/mb/cheps/ Center for Higher Education Policy Studies

• http://www.utwente.nl/mb/steps/ Welcome to the Department of Science, Technology, and Policy Studies (STəPS)

• http://www.utwente.nl/mb/nikos/ Knowledge intensive entrepreneurship

• http://www.utwente.nl/igs/lseb/ The Laboratory for Social Interactions and Economic Behavior (LSEB) is a newly established group of economists within the Institute for Innovation and Governance Studies (IGS) and hosted at The Faculty of Geo-Information Science and Earth Observation (ITC) of the University of Twente.

• http://www.academia.edu/2320432/The_Case_for_Intellectual_Property

• http://www.academia.edu/457330/Derivative_Works_Original_Value

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Graeber

15 October — One page proposal

Utwente Tech 4 People.