Project description
Fostering community involvement in product creation and marketing
Open source software (OSS) gave rise to a billion-euro economy by releasing software design from proprietary use and opening the way to feedback by the public at large. Its extension to open source hardware (OSH) and the creation of physical objects has not been as widespread among the non-institutional segments of society. OPEN_NEXT focuses on encouraging and supporting SMEs to unleash OSH’s potential through company-community collaborations (C3). It will use case studies to prove C3 feasibility, provide SMEs with needed infrastructure and business support to integrate the designs into marketable products, and, most important, it will invite and rely on the participation of consumers and citizens in a project that will lead to new user-friendly products.
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IA - Innovation actionCoordinator
10623 Berlin
Germany
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Participants (19)
38031 Grenoble Cedex 1
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38058 Grenoble
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10117 Berlin
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BA2 7AY Bath
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1150 Wien
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80686 Munchen
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1473 Kobenhavn
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10963 Berlin
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28014 Madrid
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The organization defined itself as SME (small and medium-sized enterprise) at the time the Grant Agreement was signed.
1012 CR Amsterdam
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The organization defined itself as SME (small and medium-sized enterprise) at the time the Grant Agreement was signed.
1219 Kobenhavn
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10999 Berlin
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80935 Munchen
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The organization defined itself as SME (small and medium-sized enterprise) at the time the Grant Agreement was signed.
10179 Berlin
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The organization defined itself as SME (small and medium-sized enterprise) at the time the Grant Agreement was signed.
2600 Glostrup
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20355 Hamburg
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The organization defined itself as SME (small and medium-sized enterprise) at the time the Grant Agreement was signed.
1033 NX Amsterdam
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1211 BL Hilversum
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The organization defined itself as SME (small and medium-sized enterprise) at the time the Grant Agreement was signed.
1020 Wien
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