[p2p-research] digital commons as industrial policy for 21cy

[Michel Bauwens]

                                CALL FOR PAPER

                    TRACK WITHIN THE EURAM Conference 2008

                    CREATING VALUE THROUGH DIGITAL COMMONS.

    How collective management of IPRs, open innovation models, and digital
        communities shape the industrial dynamics in the XXI century.

                  Ljubljana & Blend - May 15^th -17^th 2008

TRACK DESCRIPTION

The track, hosted within the EURAM Conference 2008 (http://www.euram2008.org
),
focuses on how digital commons (DC) create value through open ways of
managing
knowledge and innovation. We encourage the submission of papers addressing
how
open accessibility, mainly through digital networks, is affecting economic
activities.

In recent years, information has become a primary wealth-creating asset,
while
technological developments have transformed the production process from
physically-based to knowledge-based. As a consequence, the management of
technology and knowledge are key factors to compete on the markets.

Following this path, new ways of managing IPRs that foster instead of limit
the
access to information (Benkler, 2006), have emerged as reliable business
opportunities for firms in different sectors (software, biotechnologies,
pharmaceutical, media, industrial design). Moreover, the creativity and
competitiveness of companies are benefiting from open production and
innovation
methods (Chesbrough, 2003; von Hippel, 2005), relying on an emergent
division
of labour, collective ownership of intellectual properties, and information
sharing in on-line communities. Leading examples of these new trends are the
success of Free/Open Source (FOSS) solutions; the increasing usage of
Creative
Commons Licenses; the phenomenal success of the on-line encyclopaedia
Wikipedia
and, more generally, the flourishing of user generated contents.

This track aims at contributing to the research agenda on the economic
exploitation of digital commons, dealing with intriguing research questions
as.: how is possible to profit from public knowledge? How does the open
model
perform compared to the proprietary one? Do digital commons favour the
creation
of new ventures? How to manage incentives and the division of labour in open
environments? Which are the strategies to compete in such new markets?

SUBMISSIONS

Extended abstracts will be considered, but a preference will be given to
full
papers. We invite well-crafted papers contributing original ideas on
different
sectors as software, biotechnology, media, pharmaceutical, and industrial
design. All submissions will receive a double blind review process.

A non-exhaustive list of themes is as follows:

l      BUSINESS MODELS: taxonomies and case studies on how firms extract
value
>From digital commons; sustainability of open business models; relationships
between firms and virtual communities; division of labour and competitive
strategies in open environments;

l      OPEN INSTITUTIONAL REGIMES: new ways of managing IPRs; comparison
between open and traditional IPRs regimes; free riding vs. trust in on-line
communities; policies to increase knowledge production by sharing and
re-using

l      FREE/OPEN SOURCE ENTREPRENEURSHIP: FOSS-based firms as a special case
of
New Technology-Based Firms; fund-rising of FOSS based enterprises; FOSS
strategies of large and small software companies; hybridization between
commercial and Free/Open Software; FOSS strategies in developing countries

l      OPEN INNOVATION: internal vs. external sources of knowledge, new ways
of
organising R&D; types of knowledge and models of governance; open management
and integration of intangible assets; assessment of users' integration
inside
firms boundaries; on-line community building and management.

l      COMMONS-BASED CREATIVITY: how public availability of contents through
digital networks fosters creativity; analysis of collective
invention/creation
processes (Wikipedia, Linux, SETI at home); reuse and mixing of existing
contents
as lever of creativity; economic exploitation of public licensed contents.

We are making arrangements for a Special Issue of an International Journal
and
are planning to invite two keynote speakers among the most important
scholars
in the field.

TRACK CHAIRS:

Cristina Rossi,  Politecnico di Milano, cristina1.rossi at polimi.it
Lorenzo Benussi,  University of Turin, lorenzo.benussi at unito.it
Jean Michel Dalle, UniversitÃ(c) Pierre et Marie Curie,
jean-michel.dalle at upmc.fr

DEADLINES

Authors should submit their potential contribution to this EURAM track by 27
January 2008 24:00 (CET)trough the conference Web site (see http://<http:///>
www.euram2008.org/CallForPapers.asp)

Decisions of paper acceptance will be made by FEBRUARY 22^TH 2008

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