Abstract

Borrowing a practice that is common in the open source software community, HBS professor Karim R. Lakhani and colleagues decided to see how "broadcasting" might work among scientists trying to solve scientific problems.

Key concepts

• Practices in the open source software community offer a model for encouraging large-scale scientific problem solving.
• Open up your problem to other people in a systematic way. A problem may reside in one domain of expertise and the solution may reside in another.
• Find innovative licensing ways or legal regimes that allow people to share knowledge without risking the overall intellectual property of the firm. (did someone say CreativeCommons? :)

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