The word "open" in the internet era has become synonymous of "open source" and the wording "open source" has become synonymous of freedom and fast innovation. However, the wording "open source" has introduced a bias, this is because "source" refers explicitly to programming. So, in programming, the open source is a software where is possible to look at the source and modify it, without copyright issues.
But "open source" can be used as a metaphor to extend the concept to all ideas. No more copyrights, but a more human and ethic way to achieve our goals and the creation of new knowledge. An "open" idea we could say, an idea which is not owned by anyone and that can be used by everyone.
But how to make money from ideas and knowledge which is available to everyone? How to capitalize our creativity if this is lost in the sea of commune creativity?
Old paradigms think at knowledge as a static capability which is detained by an individual or a company. However, new paradigms look at knowledge as an asset which is impossible to detain for long time, those new perspectives may be useful to explain why the open concept/innovation can have a business application.
The purpose of this blog is to explore open concepts, principally those related to open source. The hope is that this journey in the open source and open ideas will end up giving all participants new line of thoughts and, why not, also some ideas on possible business.
I will attempt to refer all discussions to a business and economic setting, this for 2 main reasons: 1) discussion has to be constrained in order to achieve some degree of conceptualization; 2) the open source community discuss barely of business and economic implications.
Ah, BMs means: Business Models!
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