Social Aspects of Open Innovation
The Fierce Electronics website noted that open innovation also has a social aspect, enabled by the internet and new forums for idea sharing. These social aspects include the maker movement, different collaboration forums, new business models such as crowdsourced development and funding, and hardware acceleration specifically designed to support the new breed of entrepreneurial engineer. All these tools and resources give makers and creators access to more brains, with more people working to solve problems.
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