HICSS '03 Proceedings of the 36th Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS'03) - Track 8 - Volume 8
Shifting Innovation to Users via Toolkits
Management Science
On the Dialectics of Strategic Alliances
Organization Science
The Success of Open Source: ,
An empirical analysis of open source software developers' motivations and continuance intentions
Information and Management
The open source software phenomenon: Characteristics that promote research
The Journal of Strategic Information Systems
The transformation of open source software
MIS Quarterly
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The objective of this article is to conceptually transfer the concept of open source software OSS development to scientific entrepreneurship and to hypothetically discuss the support potentials of this rather new development philosophy for what we than call open scientific entrepreneurship. Therefore, at first the authors will go into conceptual details of scientific entrepreneurship and than of OSS development. Following, the main thrust of the article presents open scientific entrepreneurship from two points of origin: first of all, OSS development as a specific form of scientific e-entrepreneurship and further on potential benefits of opening "traditional" scientific entrepreneurship up by looking at specific action fields. These action fields are theoretically based on the process and competence perspective of scientific entrepreneurship. Finally, the general benefits as well as downsides of the concept of openness are discussed on a generic level. It becomes obvious that there is need for balancing the tensions between an open and closed design pattern for scientific entrepreneurship with a general emphasis on the open design perspective.