Special Issue: Open R&D and Open Innovation . This seems a closed academic journal, but the folllowing sample articles should show the articles are very promising: * Open R&D and open innovation: exploring the phenomenon . There is currently a broad awareness of open innovation and its relevance to corporate R&D. Edited by Ellen Enkel, Oliver Gassmann, and Henry Chesbrough. Volume 39 Issue 4, August 2009.

Open models are now famous for being adopted in many fields outside software development, and we can see this as a proof of their importance and a clear sign of their success. One of the most interesting fields where we witness the adoption of Open models is the Design one, where we can find cases of open web design ( OpenDesigns , Open Source Web Design , Open Web Design ), open product design ( Openmoko , VIA OpenBook , Bug Labs , Zoybar ), open meta-design processes , and even open architectural design .

And yet there’s an emergent consistency in these as people react to each presentation in terms of open popularity voting and critique and adapt their future presentations to that. But this process has no goals and people aren’t really put as much attention into the critical task of showcasing technique -disseminating knowledge- as they are in demoing their own designs. The knowledge would Looking at the different Maker blogs, I could see that there was an emergent set of information standards forming ad hoc by a popularity-driven process of selection as well as limitations -chiefly in graphics as people generally can’t produce their own drawn illustrations so resort to photos and video.

This is a great explanation of the cooperation logic behind Greenxchange, an initiative by Nike, BestBuy and the Creative Commons, to create collaborative open innovation pools for renewable energy research. ...Tags: Tags: Open Design P2P Energy Vide

To understand the reality or illusion behind projects claiming to practice co-creation or co-design, one must look at the polarities of power and control that determine the context in which the co-creative processes take place, with on the one hand the communities of external collaborators, and on the other side, the corporate entities. THE FIRST LAYER: COLLABORATIVE PLATFORMS - At the core are the enabling collaborative socio-technological platforms, that allow knowledge workers, software developers and open design communities to collaborate on joint projects, outside of the direct

This mindmap could certainly be more beautifully designed and presented, but I can’t refrain from already sharing, as it presents such a condensation of the 3 years of research we’ve undertaken at the P2P Foundation. Ben and the CCAlps Salon invited me to speak on Open Everything in Vienna on 11 September at 19:30 in the Museumsquarter. A special thanks to Ben Dagan of Creative Commons Austria , who prodded me to undertake this visualization effort, and added some extra visual elements already.

If we except the proposition that a design becomes a social construct through, basically, the reverse-engineering of the user experience and then add in the option for a community of users to pro-actively participate in that design evolution, then we are dealing with a peer-to-peer process of iterative design. Yesterday, Eric Hunting present his ideas on the general evolution from industrial to post-industrial in the forms of design. This is the point where peer-to-peer theory starts to become very important to our discussion. Today, he delves into the specific precepts

Industrial Age blobbyness: “In any given culture predominate styles of design coalesce as a function of the aesthetic principles/theories/notions dominant in that culture at any given time and the nature of the dominant techniques of art, fabrication, and industrial production employed in its communities. Archeologists and anthropologists understand this well and commonly identify cultures and time periods by tell-tale characteristics of the design of artifacts and their manufacture. Today we recognize that a new set of cultural paradigms are emerging to supplant those of the Industrial Age, driven by an emergent and progressive demassification of culture amplified by digital communications and paralleled by a similar demassification of industrial production by virtue of digitally enhanced machine tools.

Years ago I developed a process for doing something similar in Open Space.  the the challenge was how to hold an open planning conversation on the future of the organization, but address key areas without being controlling.  We We designed a day and a half strategic planning retreat with a non-profit by first identifying the key areas which the plan needed to cover.  In Today John Inman had a great post on using the world cafe for a five hour strategic planning session with a non-profit.  His His process works as follows:

8220; Eric Paulos (professor of HCI and Ubiquitous Computing at Carnegie Mellon), lays out a vision for technology design that is increasingly participatory and relevant to contemporary social concerns, in his Manifesto of Open Disruption and Participation . Paulos highlights the computing design shift from professionals concerned with usability, to creative amateurs, artists, and hackers who have influenced technology use in unanticipated ways. Via Jordan Kraemer at Smart Mobs : “ In particular, he emphasizes the need to rethink the goal of technology and ubiquitous