scholarly journals Open Source, Open Innovation and Intellectual Property Rights – A Lightning Talk

2012 ◽  
pp. 298-303 ◽  
Author(s):  
Terhi Kilamo ◽  
Imed Hammouda ◽  
Ville Kairamo ◽  
Petri Räsänen ◽  
Jukka P. Saarinen
Keyword(s):  
Intellectual Property ◽  
Property Rights ◽  
Open Source ◽  
Intellectual Property Rights ◽  
Open Innovation

scholarly journals Open Source Seeds and the Revitalization of Local Knowledge

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (21) ◽  
pp. 12270
Author(s):  
Martin Fredriksson
Keyword(s):  
Intellectual Property ◽  
Property Rights ◽  
Open Source ◽  
Intellectual Property Rights ◽  
Open Source Software ◽  
Memory Loss ◽  
Ecological Knowledge ◽  
Collective Knowledge ◽  
Farming Communities ◽  
Information Politics

This article engages with the resistance against the global erosion of seed diversity following the modernization and industrialization of agriculture over the 20th century. This resistance spans from local farming communities that preserve and safeguard traditional landraces to international movements which oppose proprietary seed regulations and promote free sharing of seeds. The article focuses on the latter and presents a study of the open source seed movement: an initiative to apply strategies from the open source software movement to ensure the free circulation of seeds. The erosion of seed diversity can be seen not only as a loss of genetic diversity but also a memory loss where traditional, collective knowledge about how to grow certain landraces is forgotten. Consequently, the open source seed movement is not only about saving seeds but also about preserving and revitalizing local and traditional ecological knowledge against privatization and enclosure through intellectual property rights. The aim of this article is, thus, to analyze the open source seed movement as an act of revitalization in relation to intellectual property rights and in the context of information politics.

Open Source Intellectual Property Rights

2011 ◽  
pp. 785-790
Author(s):  
Stewart T. Fleming
Keyword(s):  
Intellectual Property ◽  
World Wide Web ◽  
Property Rights ◽  
Open Source ◽  
Intellectual Property Rights ◽  
Open Source Software ◽  
World Wide ◽  
Source Code ◽  
The Internet ◽  
The World

The open source software movement exists as a loose collection of individuals, organizations, and philosophies roughly grouped under the intent of making software source code as widely available as possible (Raymond, 1998). While the movement as such can trace its roots back more than 30 years to the development of academic software, the Internet, the World Wide Web, and so forth, the popularization of the movement grew significantly from the mid-80s (Naughton, 2000).

Research on Open Innovation in China

2013 ◽  
pp. 714-720
Author(s):  
Zhu Naixiao ◽  
Huang Chunhua
Keyword(s):  
Intellectual Property ◽  
Property Rights ◽  
Technological Innovation ◽  
Intellectual Property Rights ◽  
Knowledge Economy ◽  
Open Innovation ◽  
Technology Innovation ◽  
Practical Significance ◽  
Chinese Enterprises ◽  
Depth Study

In the knowledge economy era enterprises experience extremely severe competition the intensity of which may be seen in the rate of technology innovation: finally technological innovation can result in the creation of intellectual property (Wu, 2006). “Even great technologies no longer can be relied upon to earn a satisfactory profit before they become commercialized” (Chesbrough, 2007). The effective ways to achieve the commercial value of intellectual property rights relies on the use of intellectual property. An in-depth study of this subject has important theoretical and practical significance for improving the international competitiveness of Chinese enterprises and for protecting their intellectual property rights.

Contextualizing the Disagreement of Intellectual Property Rights and Open Innovation Systems in Realizing the Goal of Innovation Society in India

2020 ◽  
pp. 377-383
Author(s):  
Sabuj Kumar Chaudhuri
Keyword(s):  
Intellectual Property ◽  
Property Rights ◽  
Intellectual Property Rights ◽  
Open Innovation ◽  
Innovation System ◽  
Innovation Systems ◽  
Free Flow ◽  
History Of ◽  
Scientists And Engineers ◽  
Creative Endeavor

Innovation has always been the creative endeavor throughout the history of human civilization. With the inception of intellectual property rights (IPR) to protect the innovations almost 500 years back, the free flow of knowledge was obstructed, and further advancement of knowledge is somehow stunted. Emerging open innovation system with the sharing of knowledge beyond geographical boundaries has opened a new door to many possibilities. India, with her vast pool of scientists and engineers, can become an innovation society with a judicious combination of IP and open innovation systems. This chapter seeks to contextualize the trajectory evolves due to philosophical conflict that arises among intellectual property rights (IPR), open innovation systems, innovation society formation in India. It inquires to find a realistic sustainable path.

Intellectual Property Rights in Open Source Software Communities

2011 ◽  
pp. 285-290
Author(s):  
Chitu Okoli ◽  
Kevin Carillo
Keyword(s):  
Intellectual Property ◽  
Property Rights ◽  
Software Development ◽  
Open Source ◽  
Intellectual Property Rights ◽  
Open Source Software ◽  
Virtual Community ◽  
Source Model ◽  
Software Projects ◽  
Software Development Model

Intellectual property is an old concept, with the first recorded instances of patents (1449) and copyrights (1662) both occurring in England (“Intellectual property”, Wikipedia, 2004). The first piece of software was submitted for copyright to the United States Copyright Office in 1961, and was accepted as copyrightable under existing copyright law (Hollaar, 2002). The open source movement has relied upon controversial intellectual property rights that are rooted in the overall history of software development (Lerner & Tirole, 2002; von Hippel & von Krogh, 2003). By defining specific legal mechanisms and designing various software licenses, the open source phenomenon has successfully proposed an alternative software development model whose approach to the concept of intellectual property is quite different from that taken by traditional proprietary software. A separate article in this encyclopedia treats open source software communities in general as a type of virtual community. This article takes a historical approach to examining how the intellectual property rights that have protected free/open source software have contributed towards the formation and evolution of virtual communities whose central focus is software projects based on the open source model.

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