Article Dans Une Revue Business Models and Strategies for Open Source Projects Année : 2023

Building Open Source Hardware Business Models

Résumé

Open source hardware (OSH) initiatives are collectively managed projects enabled by the internet and digital fabrication tools. They allow people to create products in a cheaper, faster, and more efficient manner. To date, there is no strategic and actionable framework using the commons theory for analyzing how these hardware initiatives develop economically effective and sustainable business models. Based on an analysis of the business models of 27 community-based and community-oriented OSH initiatives studied over a 3-year period, this chapter presents such a framework. The five-stages spiral framework offers to guide companies and startups involved in OSH to interact with their surrounding innovation ecosystems progressively, enrich their value propositions and grow in impact.

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hal-04512616 , version 1 (26-03-2024)

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Laetitia Marie Thomas, Karine Evrard-Samuel, Peter Troxler. Building Open Source Hardware Business Models. Business Models and Strategies for Open Source Projects, 2023, Advances in Systems Analysis, Software Engineering, and High Performance Computing, pp.50 - 79. ⟨10.4018/978-1-6684-4785-7.ch003⟩. ⟨hal-04512616⟩
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