Open source Quote by Eric von Hippel

““increase the ease with which innovators can build larger systems from interlinkable modules created by community participants. Free and open source software projects are a relatively well-developed and very successful form of Internet-based innovation community. However, innovation communities are by no means restricted to software or even to””

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“the ongoing shift of product-development activities from manufacturers to users is painful and difficult for many manufacturers.”

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“Dedicated to all who are building the information commons.”

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“The architecture of the pizza pie illustrates how this can be done. Many aspects of the design of a pizza, such as the dough…

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“created specifically to separate the problem-solving tasks requiring access to a manufacturer's sticky solution information from those requiring access to users' sticky need information.…

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“universities and the Library of Congress, with support provided by grants from the federal government (Tedd 1994). Until roughly 1978, the only such systems…

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“Copyright owners can prevent others from building new works on characters (e.g. Mickey Mouse) that are already familiar to customers. The result is that…

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