Open Innovation Projects

Business type

Co-creation

Service/product description

Open Innovation Projects has been created to connect projects developing physical products under the paradigm of open source innovation. It provides a solid overview of activities in this domain.

The term “Open Source” originates from the software industry and denotes the revelation of the source code. However this initiative focuses explicitly on projects outside the software industry. Compared to open source software they face additional challenges and seem to be less connected so far.

In the first step a list of projects has been collected and is maintained in order to simplify information exchange between projects. Highly welcome are all projects showing some sort of free revealing of information to a community with the goal of collaboratively inventing physical products.

What does 'openness' mean in this case?

The directory itself is open for everybody to view or edit, and is licensed under Creative Commons.

The projects listed demonstrate openness to differing degrees from pure open innovation to hard-core open source approaches.