Farewell and Thanks to Olof Nilsson
2008 was an exciting and productive year for the O3C Business Models project, due in no small part to the hard work and expertise of Dr. Olof Nilsson who has concluded his stay with us as a Post-Doctoral researcher. We’d like to thank Olle, and say that we’re all looking forward to many more fruitful collaborations with him in the future.
ICIS 2008 Presentation
O3C researchers Joseph Feller, Pat Finnegan, and Olof Nilsson presented a paper entitled “We Have Everything to Win: Collaboration and Open Innovation in Public Administration” to the 29th International Conference on Information Systems held in Paris, France.
IFIP 8.6 Presentations
O3C researchers Joseph Feller, Pat Finnegan, Jeremy Hayes and Phil O’Reilly presented a paper entitled “Governance Structures for Open Innovation: A Preliminary Framework” to the IFIP 8.6 working conference on Open IT-Based Innovation, held in Madrid, Spain.
At the same conference, Joseph Feller, Pat Finnegan, and Olof Nilsson presented a paper entitled “Opening Public Administration: Exploring Open Innovation Archetypes and Business Model Impacts”
Finally, Pat Finnegan and co-author Lorraine Morgan (LERO) presented a paper entitled “Deciding on Open Innovation: An Exploration of How Firms Create and Capture Value with Open Source Software.”
IFIP 8.2 Presentations
O3C researchers Joseph Feller, Pat Finnegan, and Jeremy Hayes (with co-author Brian Fitzgerald (University of Limerick) presented a paper entitled “Bazaar by Design: Managing Interfirm Exchanges in an Open Source Service Network” to the IFIP 8.2 working conference on Information Technology in the Service Economy, held in Toronto, Canada.
At the same conference, Joseph Feller, Pat Finnegan, Bjorn Lundell and Olof Nilsson presented a panel on “The ‘Servicitization’ of Peer Production: Reflections on the Open Source Software Experience”.
ECIS 2008 Paper Presentation
O3C researchers Phil O’Reilly and Pat Finnegan presented a paper entitled “The Relationship between Electronic Marketplace Ownership and Performance: An Exploratory Study” to the 16th European Conference on Information Systems.
O3C Welcomes New Post-Doctoral Researcher
The O3C project is pleased to announce the arrival of Olof Nilsson, a senior lecturer in Social Informatics at Mid Sweden University, who will be working with the O3C project as a post-doctoral researcher from January-December 2008. Dr. Nilsson’s research has been focused on access to public information systems, and he has taken an active part in two “triple helix” projects developing open source applications for public authorities. His research on access has been published in International Journal of Public Information Systems, in a forthcoming edition of International Journal for Humanistic and Social Computing, and also in a number of international conference proceedings. He is currently researching how open source and open innovation facilitates changes to the traditional approach to public service and government in Sweden.
Enterprise Ireland Seminar on “Innovating the Business Model”
O3C researchers Jeremy Hayes and Shane Fitzgerald attended the Enterprise Ireland Seminar on “Innovating the Business Model” on the 24th October 2007 at the Stillorgan Park Hotel in Dublin. In this post, Jeremy presents a summary of the seminar.
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ECIS 2008 Track on Innovation and Open Source Software
O3C researcher Joseph Feller, together with Mogens Kühn Pedersen (Copenhagen Business School, Denmark), will be chairing a track on Innovation and Open Source Software at the 16th European Conference on Information Systems (July 9-11, 2008).
OSS 2007 Paper Presentation
O3C researcher Pat Finnegan and co-author Lorraine Morgan (LERO) presented a paper entitled “Benefits and Drawbacks of Open Source Software: An Exploratory Study of Secondary Software Firms” to The Third International Conference on Open Source Systems.
OSS 2007 Conference
03C researcher Joseph Feller served as co-Program Chair (with Alberto Sillitti, Free University of Bolzano-Bozen, Italy) for the The Third International Conference on Open Source Systems (an IFIP WG 2.13 Working Conference), which took place on June 11-14, 2007, in Limerick, Ireland.