Open Source Product Development The Meaning and Relevance of Opennes
Open source software development has received considerable scholarly attention, much of which is based on the presumption that the ‘open source model’ holds some lessons of broader applicability. Kerstin Balka focuses on the open source development of tan
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GABLER RESEARCH Forschungs-/Entwicklungs-/InnovationsManagement Herausgegeben von Professor Dr. Hans Dietmar Bürgel (em.) Universität Stuttgart Professorin Dr. Diana Grosse, vorm. de Pay Technische Universität Bergakademie Freiberg Professor Dr. Cornelius Herstatt Technische Universität Hamburg-Harburg Professor Dr. Hans Koller Universität der Bundeswehr Hamburg Professor Dr. Martin G. Möhrle Universität Bremen
Die Reihe stellt aus integrierter Sicht von Betriebswirtschaft und Technik Arbeitsergebnisse auf den Gebieten Forschung, Entwicklung und Innovation vor. Die einzelnen Beiträge sollen dem wissenschaftlichen Fortschritt dienen und die Forderungen der Praxis auf Umsetzbarkeit erfüllen.
Kerstin Balka
Open Source Product Development The Meaning and Relevance of Openness With a foreword by Prof. Dr. Cornelius Herstatt
RESEARCH
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Doctoral thesis, Hamburg University of Technology Hamburg-Harburg, 2011
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Foreword Open source software development has received considerable scholarly attention, much of which is based on the presumption that the ‘open source model’ holds some lessons of broader applicability. Nonetheless, knowledge of its deployment outside the software industry is very limited. Until recently, limitations to the availability of successful empirical examples of this ‘new innovation model’ outside software may have been a key reason for this gap. Kerstin Balka’s dissertation focuses on the open source development of tangible objects, so-called open design. She proposes a generalized definition of open source development and a more careful treatment of the meaning of openness. Openness is often regarded as a dichotomous variable (open-source vs. closed-source) and it is assumed that online developer communities demand full opening of the product’s source. To explore the landscape of open source development in the world of atoms, this dissertation presents a comprehensive study of open design
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