Open Source Biotechnology

Open Innovation in South Africa: Case Studies in Nanotechnology, Biotechnology, and Open Source Software Development

In the era of open innovation, the capability to conduct collaborative research and development has become a key indicator of absorptive capacity and innovation competitiveness. However, the literature addressing open innovation has a focus on developed economies. New evidence from the South African National R&D Survey, together with supplementary data, make it possible to gain a greater unders...

Open Source in Biotechnology: Open Questions Innovations Case Discussion: CAMBIA-BiOS

rate and direction of progress in biology is constrained by available tools; a novel tool can set the field on a new and more productive course, but only if creative scientists are free to use it. The history of -glucuronidase (GUS) marker genes illustrates the great impact a technology can have when it is novel, useful, and globally available on reasonable terms. Now Jefferson’s energy is dire...

Geographies of Open Source Biotechnology Innovation: Buzz, Pipelines, and Proximity in a Virtual Cluster

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0 7 4 0 7 4 5 9 / 0 7 / $ 2 5 . 0 0 © 2 0 0 7 I E E E Moreover, the degree of success varies greatly among F/OSS communities, and many projects have died before delivering a first release. They usually failed to create a supporting community—only one or two developers4,5 had tried to sustain them. These projects tend to go inactive and often vanish completely.6 In fact, there is some evidence t...

Leveraging Open Source Licenses and Open Source Communities in Hybrid Commercial Open Source Business Models

The general research idea behind this work is that a framework can be created to describe commercial open source business models as combinations of different criteria. Goal of this paper is to find and describe the criteria by answering the question how software vendors leverage open source software and open source communities as well as multiproduct and multilicense strategies in commercial op...