Patterns of Open Innovation in Open Source Software
Scott Gallagher Joel West · 2006
Abstract Models of Open Innovation offer the promise that firms can achieve a greater return on their innovative activities and their resulting intellectual property (IP). Open Innovation models stress the importance of using a broad range of sources for a firm ‘s innovation and invention activities, including customers, rivals, academics, and firms in unrelated industries while simultaneously using creative methods to exploit a firm ‘s resulting IP (Chesbrough 2003a). While the use of external sources of innovation is nothing new, recently some of the most successful high-tech firms have been those that utilized Open Innovation rather than more traditional ‘vertically integrated ‘ innovation approaches.