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Everything about Open collaboration
Collaboration with a result open to all
Open collaboration refers to any "system of innovation or production that relies on goal-oriented yet loosely coordinated participants who cooperate voluntarily to create a product of economic value, which is made freely available to contributors and noncontributors alike." The organizing principle behind open collaboration is that of peer production. Peer production communities are structured in an entirely decentralized manner, but differ from markets in that they function without price-based coordination, and often on the basis of volunteering only. Wikipedia →
🧭 Start here: a 6-step reading path
- Read the overview: Open collaborationA 5-minute orientation
- Skim a recent paper: Open Innovation with Value Co-Creation from University–Industry CollaborationInfluential work since 2022
- Pick up a classic book: Daigaku ni okeru chiteki zaisanken kenkyū purojekutoThe most-reprinted book on the subject
- Read the landmark paper: Motivating and supporting collaboration in open innovationCited 255 times
- Go sideways: Commons-based peer productionA closely related topic
- Go sideways: Peer productionA closely related topic
📖 Definitions
No dictionary entry for this exact phrase.
🗂️ The subject at a glance
🏆 Landmark papers (most cited)
Motivating and supporting collaboration in open innovation
The impact of the ‘open’ workspace on human collaboration
Motivation for Open Collaboration
Open Collaboration for Innovation: Principles and Performance
Collaboration Through Open Superposition: A Theory of the Open Source Way1
Defining, Understanding, and Supporting Open Collaboration
Open Source Collaboration in Digital Entrepreneurship
Reputation systems for open collaboration
🆕 Influential since 2022
Open Innovation with Value Co-Creation from University–Industry Collaboration
The eWaterCycle platform for open and FAIR hydrological collaboration
FedOSS: Federated Open Set Recognition via Inter-Client Discrepancy and Collaboration
Open innovation and collaboration: A systematic literature review
Collaboration in software ecosystems: A study of work groups in open environment
📚 Books worth reading
- 📕Daigaku ni okeru chiteki zaisanken kenkyū purojekutoJapan. Tokkyochō · 2004
Peer ProductionBenjamin Mako Hill, Christian Pentzold · 2026
Wiki Tools: Web CollaborationAnja Ebersbach, Markus Glaser · 2005
Ranked by number of editions on Open Library, a rough measure of how lasting a book is.
🔗 Related topics
- Commons-based peer production Commons-based peer production (CBPP) is a term coined by Harvard Law School professor Yochai Benkler. It describes a model of socio-economic production…
- Peer production Peer production (also known as mass collaboration[citation needed]) is a way of producing goods and services that relies on self-organizing communities…
- Open source Open source is the practice of publishing digital resources publicly alongside their source code or source files, enabling use, study, modification, and…
- Yochai Benkler Yochai Benkler (/ˈjoʊxaɪ/ YO-khai; born 1964) is an Israeli-American author and the Berkman Professor of Entrepreneurial Legal Studies at Harvard Law School…
- The Wealth of Networks The Wealth of Networks: How Social Production Transforms Markets and Freedom is a book by Harvard Law School professor Yochai Benkler published by Yale…
- Open-source economics Open-source economics is an economic platform based on open collaboration for the production of software, services, or other products. First applied to…
- Carr–Benkler wager The Carr–Benkler wager between Yochai Benkler and Nicholas Carr concerned the question whether the most influential sites on the Internet will be peer-produced…
- Open-source software Open-source software (OSS) is computer software released under a license allowing users to use, study, modify, and distribute it to anyone for any purpose…