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Organisational Participation in Open Innovation Communities

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Organisational participation is a critical consideration in the examination of open communities. Many open communities are no longer the domain of solitary individuals but have come to include organisations representing many of the largest financial interests across a variety of economic interests. Organisations seek to participate in open communities for reasons of leveraged development, economics and flexibility but participation is not a simple task. In this chapter, we explore what the primary motivations are for organisational participation in open communities. We follow this with considerations of how organisations participate once they have determined to engage with open communities. This chapter provides a glimpse of why and how organisations participate in open innovation communities and provide insights valuable for both practical and academic interests.

This project was funded through the National Science Foundation VOSS—IOS Grant: 1122642, Organisational Participation in Open Communities.

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  1. University of Nebraska at Omaha, Omaha, NE, USA

    Matt Germonprez

  2. Linux Foundation, San Francisco, CA, USA

    Brian Warner

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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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Germonprez, M., Warner, B. (2013). Organisational Participation in Open Innovation Communities. 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_3

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