The Economy of Collaboration
The book, The Economy of Collaboration, has a chapter, The Sphere of Innovation, which deals with with collaborative relations in the sphere of innovation. There are different forms of collaborative innovation . ‘Open innovation’ refers to a profit-driven corporate strategy. In contrast ‘free innovation’ refers to a form of innovation implemented by consumers in their free time, for non-market purposes, often of a collaborative nature, and which do not imply any remuneration. There are also intermediate variants ranging from ‘collective inventions’ to ‘open innovation communities’.
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