Freedom and openness as a socio-centric example of innovation

Authors

  • Grzegorz Klimek Wyższa Szkoła Bankowa we Wrocławiu

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.29015/cerem.152

Keywords:

innovation, open source, freedom, openness, social innovation

Abstract

The aim of this paper is to present selected aspects of the innovations created by community. In the first part author underline the main issues of innovations. The paper presents information about free/open source community and their structures. Afterwards author describes the meaning of community in innovation process.

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Vol. 15 No. 3 (2015)

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