Contrasting Firm Strategies for Open Standards, Open Source and Open Innovation

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Article: Contrasting Firm Strategies for Open Standards, Open Source and Open Innovation. by Joel West. January 29, 2007

URL = http://www.joelwest.org/blog/2007/01/open.html


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"While “open” normally has connotations of public goods, the idea of “open”-ness has been used for decades 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 refer to these strategies.What do they have in common? Which ones really are “open”? What does “open” mean, anyway? Here I contrast firm strategies for these three types of “open”-ness in the context of their respective business models."