Open-source product development

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Open source product development (OSPD) refers to the development of open-source hardware products in a collaborative process allowing open participation from anyone, or the application of the open-source model in the context of physical products.[1]

Characteristics

OSPD is characterized by the simultaneity of two forms of openness:

Generally, OSPD processes are relevant for complex products, whose definition requires the collaborative integration of input from multiple contributors. This, however, does not exclude the existence of OSPD processes for simple products. In that sense, OSPD specifies the concept of "open source innovation" as defined by Huizingh[2] in the case of complex tangible products.

Process openness requires that the product development process is performed by a "community". The word "community" is used in contrast to "company" or "team" in order to highlight three fundamental differences with the governance of conventional industrial product development.[3]

OSPD is "collaborative" in that it is performed with a certain simultaneity or parallelism in the work provided by the community members. In other words, OSPD is characterized by "intention for co-development".[4] Collaboration is defined as the coordinated work performed by a group using common material and following a common objective.[5] It therefore delineates with sequential development loops of open source designs[6] where a product is sequentially developed and released by an isolated member then reused, further developed and released again by another community member, and so on.

Further characteristics

Delineation with other terms

References

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  2. ^ Huizingh, Eelko K. R. E. 2011. “Open Innovation: State of the Art and Future Perspectives.” Technovation, Open Innovation - ISPIM Selected Papers, 31 (1): 2–9.
  3. ^ see for example Demazière, Didier, François Horn, and Marc Zune. “Des relations de travail sans règles ?” Sociétés contemporaines, no. 66: 101–125.
  4. ^ Raasch, Christina, and Cornelius Herstatt. 2011. "Product Development in Open Design Communities: A Process Perspective." International Journal of Innovation and Technology Management 08 (04): 557–575.
  5. ^ Leimeister, Jan Marco, and Eva Alice Christiane Bittner. 2014. “Collaboration Engineering.” WiSt - Wirtschaftswissenschaftliches Studium 43 (5): 243–249.
  6. ^ for a description of such iterative processes, see Kyriakou, Harris, Jeffrey V. Nickerson, and Gaurav Sabnis. 2017. "Knowledge Reuse for Customization: Metamodels in an Open Design Community for 3D Printing." SSRN Scholarly Paper ID 2924083. Rochester, NY: Social Science Research Network.
  7. ^ Fjeldsted, A.S., G. Adalsteinsdottir, T. J. Howard, and T. C. McAloone. 2012. "Open Source Development of Tangible Products-from a Business Perspective." In DS 71: Proceedings of NordDesign 2012, the 9th NordDesign conference, Aarlborg University, Denmark. 22-24.08.2012.
  8. ^ Bonvoisin, Jérémy, Laetitia Thomas, Robert Mies, Céline Gros, Rainer Stark, Karine Samuel, Roland Jochem, Jean-François Boujut. "Current state of practices in open source product development." Accepted for publication at the ICED 2017 Conference (to be published)
  9. ^ Brulé, Emeline, and Frédéric Valentin. 2016. "Of Open Bodies: Challenges and Perspectives of an Open Design Paradigm." In 50th Anniversary Design Research Society Conference. Proceedings of DRS’16. Brighton, United Kingdom.
  10. ^ Ronen Kadushin, "Open Design Manifesto."
  11. ^ Open Design Definition v. 0.5
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  13. ^ Ostuzzi, Francesca, Peter Conradie, Lieven De Couvreur, Jan Detand, and Jelle Saldien. 2016. “The Role of Re-Appropriation in Open Design: A Case Study on How Openness in Higher Education for Industrial Design Engineering Can Trigger Global Discussions on the Theme of Urban Gardening.” The International Review of Research in Open and Distributed Learning 17 (4).
  14. ^ Buitenhuis, A. J., & Pearce, J. M. (2012). "Open-source development of solar photovoltaic technology". Energy for Sustainable Development, 16(3), 379–388.
  15. ^ Howard, T. J., Achiche, S., Özkil, A., & McAloone, T. C. (2012). "Open Design and Crowdsourcing: maturity, methodology and business models." Proceedings of the 12th International Design Conference DESIGN 2012, 181–190.
  16. ^ Fjeldsted, A. S., Adalsteinsdottir, G., Howard, T. J., & McAloone, T. C. (2012). "Open Source Development of Tangible Products-from a business perspective". Presented at the NordDesign 2012, Aalborg, Dennmark.