Write code, save lives: How a community uses open innovation to address a societal challenge
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Write code, save lives : How a community uses open innovation to address a societal challenge. / Sims, Jonathan; Gichoya, Judy; Bhardwaj, Gaurab ; Bogers, Marcel.
In: R&D Management, Vol. 49, No. 3, 2019, p. 369-382.Research output: Contribution to journal › Journal article › Research › peer-review
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T1 - Write code, save lives
T2 - How a community uses open innovation to address a societal challenge
AU - Sims, Jonathan
AU - Gichoya, Judy
AU - Bhardwaj, Gaurab
AU - Bogers, Marcel
N1 - Special Issue: Leveraging Open Innovation to improve society: Past achievements and future trajectories
PY - 2019
Y1 - 2019
N2 - This study explores how a community uses open innovation over time to tackle a global societal challenge. we conduct an in‐depth case study of OpenMRS, an open‐source software community providing affordable medical record‐keeping software in developing nations. We develop a process model that describes how inbound, outbound, and coupled open innovation influenced the community through four discrete phases of community development. We explain how the founders’ vision led to the creation of the community, and how increasing community participation and community governance facilitated its growth. Interestingly, we found that economic opportunities made possible by open innovation may paradoxically create challenges to community sustainability. Ultimately, this study expands our understanding of open innovation communities in different settings, and their role in addressing societal challenges.
AB - This study explores how a community uses open innovation over time to tackle a global societal challenge. we conduct an in‐depth case study of OpenMRS, an open‐source software community providing affordable medical record‐keeping software in developing nations. We develop a process model that describes how inbound, outbound, and coupled open innovation influenced the community through four discrete phases of community development. We explain how the founders’ vision led to the creation of the community, and how increasing community participation and community governance facilitated its growth. Interestingly, we found that economic opportunities made possible by open innovation may paradoxically create challenges to community sustainability. Ultimately, this study expands our understanding of open innovation communities in different settings, and their role in addressing societal challenges.
U2 - 10.1111/radm.12338
DO - 10.1111/radm.12338
M3 - Journal article
VL - 49
SP - 369
EP - 382
JO - R&D Management
JF - R&D Management
SN - 0033-6807
IS - 3
ER -
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