"No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent, a part of the main."
John Donne
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"No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent, a part of the main."
John Donne
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"In co-creation, strategy formulation involves imagining a new value chain that benefits all players in the ecosystem."
Venkat Ramaswamy and Francis Gouillart (2010)
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"Go for it now. The future is promised to no one."
Wayne Dyer
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From the Editor-in-Chief
The editorial theme for this issue of the OSBR is Co-Creation. We have invited authors from the Research Forum to Understand Business in Knowledge Society to contribute to this issue. I am pleased to welcome our Guest Editors: Marko Seppä from the University of Jyväskylä and Stoyan Tanev from the University of Southern Denmark.
We encourage readers to share articles of interest with their colleagues, and to provide their comments either online or directly to the authors.
The editorial theme for this issue of the OSBR is Co-Creation. The articles invited for publication in this special issue of the OSBR were originally presented last September at EBRF 2010, in Nokia, Finland. EBRF - the research forum to understand business in the knowledge society - is the oldest international peer-reviewed business research conference organized annually in Finland. The first EBRF conference was organized in Tampere, Finland in 2001. The grand theme of the 10th anniversary EBRF conference was "Co-Creation as a Way Forward".
For this issue of the OSBR, a preliminary subset of EBRF articles were selected by a specifically designed committee of scholars that was asked to nominate EBRF articles fitting the topic of the special issue and providing valuable insights to both scholars and practitioners. We invited the authors to create specialized versions of the papers that were previously published in the EBRF 2010 Conference Proceedings by focusing on the practical relevance of their research for an audience including not only scholars but also business and technology experts. After the submission of the OSBR versions, an additional peer review process was used to select seven articles offering diverse perspectives on co-creation.
“There is a great satisfaction in building good tools for other people to use.”
Freeman Dyson
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“It is the recombinant nature of revolutionary innovations that contribute to their dramatic effects."
Andrew Hargadon
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Mashups combine data from multiple sources to create innovative web applications. Data providers gain compelling advantages in offering an open application programming interface (API), but face a competitive environment where growth occurs by virtue of developers’ independent choices and where competitors are also complementors.
“A leader needs enough understanding to fashion an intelligent strategy.”
John Kotter
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“The roads we take are more important than the goals we announce. Decisions determine destiny.”
Frederick Speakman
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The editorial theme for this issue of the OSBR is Recent Research. In this issue, the authors report on the findings and relevance of their recent research into open source and the application ecosystems.
Carlo Daffara, head of research at Conecta, discusses the factors to consider when choosing open source licenses and business models, including recommendations for selecting a license to suit both business objectives and licensing constraints.