Title
What is Common Among Open Standards, Open Source and Open Innovation?
Author
Joel West, San José State University College of Business
Date
3/16/2008
(Original Publish Date: 1/25/2007)
(Original Publish Date: 1/25/2007)
Abstract
For decades, the idea of “open”-ness has been used as a competitive strategy by firms in the computers and communications industries. Phrases like “open standard,” “open source” and more recently “open innovation” have been used to describe these strategies. What do they have in common? Which ones really are “open”? What does “open” mean, anyway?
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