Open Source Software as Open Innovation: Experiences from the Medical Domain

Björn Lundell and Frank Linden
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Björn Lundell: University of Skövde, Informatics Research Centre
Frank Linden: Philips Healthcare

Chapter Chapter 1 in Managing Open Innovation Technologies, 2013, pp 3-16 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract In the past decade, we have witnessed an increased interest amongst commercial and public sector organisations for Open Source Software (OSS). As any individual and organisation has the right to freely read, use, improve and redistribute the source code for software that is developed and released under an OSS licence, it creates new opportunities for Open Innovation. In this chapter, we report on how companies collaborate on production of software artefacts in an OSS project, thereby showing how a form of Open Innovation can be utilised by a large company that goes beyond collaborative development of ideas. In doing so, we report on company decisions and development practices concerning how a software project evolved from proprietary to an open collaborative software development project that is released under an OSS licence (LGPLv2).

Keywords: OPAL Collaboration; OSS Projects; OSS Development; Open Source Development Projects; Share Development Costs (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2013
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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-31650-0_1

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