Why Open Source Communities Are Natural For Industry Collaborations

Open innovation and industry collaborations are becoming more and more common as companies and industries look to modernize their R&D, optimize resources and even expand their partner ecosystems. Andrew Aitken recognized this trend in ‘The Advent of Super Communities’ as something we see more and more in open source communities. As Andrew has pointed out, there are numerous examples of industry collaborations based in open source communities.

For organizations looking to start an industry collaboration, there are four key challenges they must address:

1) How to share the technology
2) The process they will use to develop the technology
3) How control and decision making are established
4) How the community will grow and prosper...