Open Source adoption in industry: what do academic and professional experts say about it?

Adoption de l'Open Source dans l'industrie : qu'en disent les experts professionnels et académiques ?

Veronique Sanguinetti (toudoire) (1) , Kiane Goudarzi (1)

1 Laboratoire de Recherche Magellan

Open Source appeared 25 years ago in the software industry and is now widely used by all digital infrastructures. Companies outside Software industry have recently started showing their interest in this subject; they communicate about their engagement in Open Source and have started exploring Open Source Hardware features. This article aims at studying, through experts interviews (academic and managers), why and how companies in software and other industries, more accustomed to Open Innovation and Open business models, incorporate these new product and service development methods, and what the enablers are to succeed in such strategic changes.

Mots clés: Open Source; Open Source hardware; industry; qualitative analysis; experts interviews; RQDA; Content analysis

Domaines: Gestion et management

Veronique Sanguinetti (toudoire), Kiane Goudarzi. Open Source adoption in industry: what do academic and professional experts say about it?. Conférence EURAM 2018, Jun 2018, Reykjavik, Finland. ⟨hal-02443052⟩