TY - GEN
T1 - Time as a service
T2 - 39th International Conference on Information Systems, ICIS 2018
AU - Priego, Laia Pujol
AU - Wareham, Jonathan
N1 - Funding Information:
This research would not be possible with constructive feedback and help from others (Henry Chesbrough, University of California, Berkeley and ESADE; Sabine Brunswicker, Purdue University; Michael Zaggl, Technische Universitat Munchen; Javier Serrano, CERN; Luis Felipe R. Murillo, CERN; and Pietari Kauttu, CERN); as well as the editorial and review team for detailed and insightful feedback. Thanks to each WR contributor who spent their valuable time with me sharing their experience. This research has been partly funded by the Social European Fund and the Secretary for Research and Universities of the Department of Economy and Knowledge of Generalitat of Catalonia – FI_B00345.
Publisher Copyright:
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PY - 2018
Y1 - 2018
N2 - While pushing forward the boundaries of human understanding of the fundamental structure of the Universe, scientists and engineers at CERN also contributed to innovation above and beyond their immediate scientific mission by developing White Rabbit (WR): an open scientific hardware that mitigates the problem of time delays in CERN's geographically distributed network. In a context of basic research and a deliberate decision to openly share the R&D process with no IP restrictions, WR is now commercialized in a diverse range of sectors beyond the scientific industry. We follow the emergence, development, and exploitation of WR to a) identify the antecedents in which capital-intensive open source hardware differ from open source software, b) to capture the mechanisms employed by CERN to stimulate firms' R&D revelation and WR collaborative development, and c) to investigate the business model configurations that companies adopted in the commercial evolution of WR.
AB - While pushing forward the boundaries of human understanding of the fundamental structure of the Universe, scientists and engineers at CERN also contributed to innovation above and beyond their immediate scientific mission by developing White Rabbit (WR): an open scientific hardware that mitigates the problem of time delays in CERN's geographically distributed network. In a context of basic research and a deliberate decision to openly share the R&D process with no IP restrictions, WR is now commercialized in a diverse range of sectors beyond the scientific industry. We follow the emergence, development, and exploitation of WR to a) identify the antecedents in which capital-intensive open source hardware differ from open source software, b) to capture the mechanisms employed by CERN to stimulate firms' R&D revelation and WR collaborative development, and c) to investigate the business model configurations that companies adopted in the commercial evolution of WR.
KW - Open business models
KW - Open source hardware
KW - Open source innovation
KW - Technology transfer
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M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85062509320
T3 - International Conference on Information Systems 2018, ICIS 2018
BT - International Conference on Information Systems 2018, ICIS 2018
PB - Association for Information Systems
Y2 - 13 December 2018 through 16 December 2018
ER -