Michael Weinzettl

Online Collaboration: New Business Opportunities Michael Weinzettl

One billion people are already online, open innovation approaches spread and social networking services see continuous growth. Open source self-organized projects are currently mostly found in IT areas, but theories exist that this open source mindset will spread to other areas. Collaboration across continents is already usual for companies working with offshore contributors. These developments are picked up and used as a starting point. This book analyzes the ground laying concepts of social networks, crowd sourcing, commons based peer production, open source projects and freelancer marketplaces. Subsequently a combination of these concepts is formed and new product ideas are elaborated building on these findings.