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Open Source Software as Open Innovation: Experiences from the Medical Domain

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In the past decade, we have witnessed an increased interest amongst commercial and public sector organisations for Open Source Software (OSS). As any individual and organisation has the right to freely read, use, improve and redistribute the source code for software that is developed and released under an OSS licence, it creates new opportunities for Open Innovation. In this chapter, we report on how companies collaborate on production of software artefacts in an OSS project, thereby showing how a form of Open Innovation can be utilised by a large company that goes beyond collaborative development of ideas. In doing so, we report on company decisions and development practices concerning how a software project evolved from proprietary to an open collaborative software development project that is released under an OSS licence (LGPLv2).

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    http://www.fsf.org/

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    http://www.opensource.org/

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    Formerly called Philips Medical Systems

  4. 4.

    http://www.dvtk.org/; http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DVTk

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    http://www.opensource.org/licenses/LGPL-2.1

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  1. University of Skövde, Informatics Research Centre, Skövde, Sweden

    Björn Lundell

  2. Philips Healthcare, Best, The Netherlands

    Frank van der Linden

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  1. Uppsala University, Uppsala, 751 20, Sweden

    Jenny S. Z. Eriksson Lundström

  2. Department of Informatics, Umeå University, Umeå, 901 87, Sweden

    Mikael Wiberg

  3. Uppsala University, Uppsala, 751 20, Sweden

    Stefan Hrastinski

  4. Uppsala University, Uppsala, 751 20, Sweden

    Mats Edenius

  5. Uppsala University, Uppsala, 751 20, Sweden

    Pär J. Ågerfalk

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Lundell, B., van der Linden, F. (2013). Open Source Software as Open Innovation: Experiences from the Medical Domain . In: Eriksson Lundström, J., Wiberg, M., Hrastinski, S., Edenius, M., Ågerfalk, P. (eds) Managing Open Innovation Technologies. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-31650-0_1

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