Re: [ox-en] [EVENT, CFP] CREATING VALUE THROUGH DIGITAL COMMONS (Jan 27)
- From: Michael Bauwens <michelsub2003 yahoo.com>
- Date: Thu, 24 Jan 2008 05:56:41 -0800 (PST)
Hi Andrea,
thanks for the info.
I suppose participants have to self-fund their presence?
have their been any blogposts about communia yet?
Michjel
The P2P Foundation researches, documents and promotes peer to peer alternatives.
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From: Andrea Glorioso <andrea digitalpolicy.it>
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Subject: [ox-en] [EVENT, CFP] CREATING VALUE THROUGH DIGITAL COMMONS (Jan 27)
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CALL FOR PAPER
TRACK WITHIN THE EURAM Conference 2008
CREATING VALUE THROUGH DIGITAL COMMONS.
How collective management of IPRs, open innovation models,
and
digital
communities shape the industrial dynamics in the XXI century.
Ljubljana & Blend - May 15^th -17^th 2008
TRACK DESCRIPTION
The track, hosted within the EURAM Conference
2008
(http://www.euram2008.org),
focuses on how digital commons (DC) create value through open ways
of
managing
knowledge and innovation. We encourage the submission of
papers
addressing how
open accessibility, mainly through digital networks, is
affecting
economic
activities.
In recent years, information has become a primary
wealth-creating
asset, while
technological developments have transformed the production process from
physically-based to knowledge-based. As a consequence, the
management
of
technology and knowledge are key factors to compete on the markets.
Following this path, new ways of managing IPRs that foster instead
of
limit the
access to information (Benkler, 2006), have emerged as
reliable
business
opportunities for firms in different sectors
(software,
biotechnologies,
pharmaceutical, media, industrial design). Moreover, the creativity and
competitiveness of companies are benefiting from open production
and
innovation
methods (Chesbrough, 2003; von Hippel, 2005), relying on an
emergent
division
of labour, collective ownership of intellectual properties,
and
information
sharing in on-line communities. Leading examples of these new
trends
are the
success of Free/Open Source (FOSS) solutions; the increasing usage
of
Creative
Commons Licenses; the phenomenal success of the on-line
encyclopaedia
Wikipedia
and, more generally, the flourishing of user generated contents.
This track aims at contributing to the research agenda on the economic
exploitation of digital commons, dealing with intriguing
research
questions
as.: how is possible to profit from public knowledge? How does the
open
model
perform compared to the proprietary one? Do digital commons favour
the
creation
of new ventures? How to manage incentives and the division of labour
in
open
environments? Which are the strategies to compete in such new markets?
SUBMISSIONS
Extended abstracts will be considered, but a preference will be
given
to full
papers. We invite well-crafted papers contributing original ideas
on
different
sectors as software, biotechnology, media, pharmaceutical,
and
industrial
design. All submissions will receive a double blind review process.
A non-exhaustive list of themes is as follows:
l BUSINESS MODELS: taxonomies and case studies on how
firms
extract value
From digital commons; sustainability of open business
models;
relationships
between firms and virtual communities; division of labour
and
competitive
strategies in open environments;
l OPEN INSTITUTIONAL REGIMES: new ways of managing
IPRs;
comparison
between open and traditional IPRs regimes; free riding vs. trust
in
on-line
communities; policies to increase knowledge production by sharing
and
re-using
l FREE/OPEN SOURCE ENTREPRENEURSHIP: FOSS-based firms as a
special
case of
New Technology-Based Firms; fund-rising of FOSS based enterprises; FOSS
strategies of large and small software companies; hybridization between
commercial and Free/Open Software; FOSS strategies in
developing
countries
l OPEN INNOVATION: internal vs. external sources of knowledge,
new
ways of
organising R&D; types of knowledge and models of governance;
open
management
and integration of intangible assets; assessment of users'
integration
inside
firms boundaries; on-line community building and management.
l COMMONS-BASED CREATIVITY: how public availability of
contents
through
digital networks fosters creativity; analysis of
collective
invention/creation
processes (Wikipedia, Linux, SETI home); reuse and mixing of
existing
contents
as lever of creativity; economic exploitation of public
licensed
contents.
We are making arrangements for a Special Issue of an
International
Journal and
are planning to invite two keynote speakers among the most
important
scholars
in the field.
TRACK CHAIRS:
Cristina Rossi, Politecnico di Milano, cristina1.rossi polimi.it
Lorenzo Benussi, University of Turin, lorenzo.benussi unito.it
Jean Michel Dalle, Université Pierre et Marie
Curie,
jean-michel.dalle upmc.fr
DEADLINES
Authors should submit their potential contribution to this EURAM
track
by 27
January 2008 24:00 (CET)trough the conference Web site (see http://
www.euram2008.org/CallForPapers.asp)
Decisions of paper acceptance will be made by FEBRUARY 22^TH 2008
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