Democratizing Production through Open Source Knowledge: From Open Software to Open Hardware

Democratizing Business Software: Small Business Ecosystems for Open Source Applications

Democratizing Design for Future Computing Platforms

Information and communications technology can continue to change our world. These advances will partially depend upon designs that synergistically combine software with specialized hardware. Today open-source software incubates rapid software-only innovation. The government can unleash software-hardware innovation with programs to develop open hardware components, tools, and design flows that s...

Factors influencing Open Innovation: Case of Knowledge-Based Companies in Oil and Gas Industry

Technological entrepreneurship at oil and gas knowledge-based companies plays an important role in the growth of societies by increasing the technological capacity of the economy through the production, transfer, and dissemination of technological products in todaychr('39')s competitive era. Due to the technology-oriented nature of the oil and gas industry and the high costs of its research and...

Factors influencing Open Innovation: Case of Knowledge-Based Companies in Oil and Gas Industry

Technological entrepreneurship at oil and gas knowledge-based companies plays an important role in the growth of societies by increasing the technological capacity of the economy through the production, transfer, and dissemination of technological products in todaychr('39')s competitive era. Due to the technology-oriented nature of the oil and gas industry and the high costs of its research and...

The Apple Barrier: an open source interface to the iPhone

This paper presents the ongoing process, challenges and approach of integrating open source hardware with the iPhone. The aim of the project was to create software and an accompanying device using Arduino, an open-source electronics prototyping platform based on flexible, easy-touse well documented hardware and software extensively used by artists. The iPhone was chosen primarily because of it ...