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- Title
Industry-Specific Makerspaces: Opportunities for Collaboration and Open Innovation.
- Authors
ZAKOTH, DAVID; MAURONER, OLIVER
- Abstract
The rise of the maker movement, including hackathons and fablabs, provides new opportunities for companies to boost innovation by collaborating with creative, tech-savvy and intrinsically motivated people, known as makers. This paper connects open innovation and maker movement research by investigating how makers and companies can work together within an industry-specific makerspace setting. We use a qualitative case study design and focus on the German photonics industry. Our results shed light on the expectations makers and companies have when considering a collaboration, along with the perceived benefits and risks. Furthermore, we uncover crucial design factors for industry-specific makerspaces. Keywords: open innovation, collaborative innovation, makerspaces, fablabs, maker movement, hackathons, photonics industry
- Subjects
OPEN innovation; MAKER movement; MAKERSPACES; PERCEIVED benefit; ORIGINALITY
- Publication
Management international / International Management / Gestiòn Internacional, 2020, Vol 24, Issue 5, p88
- ISSN
1206-1697
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.7202/1075482ar