SIG DITE - Digital Innovation, Transformation and Entrepreneurship
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ERF
Paper Number
1648
Description
Open innovation is a process through which companies open their borders and collaborate with external stakeholders like open source communities to bring new ideas and develop novel digital technologies to gain a competitive position. In this paper, we studied an open source project, i.e., Automotive Grade Linux (AGL) – a Linux Foundation project started by automobile manufacturers and technology companies to innovate technologies for automobiles. By analyzing the code contribution of AGL, we show that much of the code contribution is made by external companies supplying technology to automotive companies and later using the open innovation process to benefit from it. We find evidence that automobile manufacturers engage in open source communities for outside-in, inside-out, and coupled open innovation. As such, this paper shows to managers in larger companies the importance of open source as a way to do open innovation.
Recommended Citation
Ahuja, Vinod Kumar; Kazantsev, Nikolai; and Plattfaut, Ralf, "Open Innovation via Open Source: Collaboration of Companies to Infuse Automobiles with Digital Technologies" (2022). AMCIS 2022 Proceedings. 13.
https://aisel.aisnet.org/amcis2022/sig_dite/sig_dite/13
Open Innovation via Open Source: Collaboration of Companies to Infuse Automobiles with Digital Technologies
Open innovation is a process through which companies open their borders and collaborate with external stakeholders like open source communities to bring new ideas and develop novel digital technologies to gain a competitive position. In this paper, we studied an open source project, i.e., Automotive Grade Linux (AGL) – a Linux Foundation project started by automobile manufacturers and technology companies to innovate technologies for automobiles. By analyzing the code contribution of AGL, we show that much of the code contribution is made by external companies supplying technology to automotive companies and later using the open innovation process to benefit from it. We find evidence that automobile manufacturers engage in open source communities for outside-in, inside-out, and coupled open innovation. As such, this paper shows to managers in larger companies the importance of open source as a way to do open innovation.
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