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Entrepreneurship and Sustainability Issues Open access
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Received: 2014-12-15  |  Accepted: 2015-02-10  |  Published: 2015-03-31

Title

How to keep open-source based innovation approaches sustainable: a view from the intellectual property perspective


Abstract

Open Source-based innovation has an exponentially increasing significance for companies seeking to improve their product portfolio without maintaining a costly research department. The abundant product-related data provided by users in virtual communities in form of comments, feedbacks, and recommendations is already today an essential source of innovation for the goods- producing, but also the tertiary sector. While these data are basically freely accessible on the web, the questions remains in how far this approach is sustainable, i.e. secure and safe also in legal terms. In fact, there are various intellectual property issues protecting the user’s contribution (see e.g. copyrights, patents, utility- and design models) which are often not taken into account by companies making use of the respective data, causing an eventual infringement of protected rights and therefore the sustainability of the company’s innovation policy.


Keywords

Open Source-based innovation, sustainability, user-driven design processes, virtual communities, intellectual property rights


JEL classifications

O34


URI

http://jssidoi.org/jesi/article/44


DOI


Pages

133-141


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Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License

Authors

Hoffmann, Thomas
University of Tartu, Tartu, Estonia http://www.ut.ee
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Prause, Gunnar
Tallinn University of Technology, Tallinn, Estonia http://ttu.ee
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Journal title

Entrepreneurship and Sustainability Issues

Volume

2


Number

3


Issue date

March 2015


Issue DOI


ISSN

ISSN 2345-0282 (online)


Publisher

VšĮ Entrepreneurship and Sustainability Center, Vilnius, Lithuania

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