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Open Business Innovation with Open Source Software

May 24, 2009 in open source

eyeBit by bit the world around us is changing.The way we use and think of IT products is still evolving and the way we make IT products is becoming more advanced. This paper exams the possibilities for open business innovation using open source software and the power of the communities around open source software.

Keywords: Open Innovation, Open Source,KDE4, Drupal,AMQ, Fosdem2009

In our search for new ideas we visited Fosdem 2009. Fosdem is an abbreviation for Free and Open Source Developers European Meeting (Fosdem).Fosdem is an event created for the OSS community by volunteers. This events was organized for the 9th time in 2009. With more than 5000 visiters and roughly 250 lectures  it is the place to be to find out what is going on in various OSS communities.

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Research on alliance forms

January 15, 2008 in business science

eyePrevious studies have examined and defined alliances, networks and other forms of interfirm collaboration from different point of views. All of these studies used their own definitions of alliances, network organizations, partnerships, interfirm cooperations or other forms of collaboration. This study will explore and reveal these different kind of alliance definitions or typologies by distinguishing these definitions. This then results in a distinction of alliance definitions based on resource based view (RBV) and transaction cost economics (TCE) point of view.

The full research paper can be downloaded here.

 

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