Mit der Verfügbarkeit von Breitbandtechnologien und der zunehmenden Bedeutung und Allgegenwart von digitaler Kommunikation gewinnen kooperative Arbeitsweisen im Bereich der kleinen und mittleren Unternehmen an Bedeutung. Diese Arbeitsweisen sind aber bis dato kaum erfasst und untersucht, hier soll der Beginn einer Materialsammlung erfolgen. Ziel könnte ein Arbeitsschwerpunkt "Offene Innovation" sein.
Projekte zur gemeinsamen Wissensbasis zwischen Unternehmen
OPENBUSINESSOpenBusiness is a platform to share and develop innovative Open Business ideas- entrepreneurial ideas which are built around openness, free services and free access. The two main aims of the project are to build an online resource of innovative business models, ideas and tools, and to publish an OpenBusiness Guidebook.
"Many different aspects to customization have become popular in the past few months. Concepts like downloadable design are a good example of how influential this approach to making products will be in the future. All of these concepts fall in one way or another under mass customization and or personal fabricating machines. Platform design weighs in on the side of a designer and or people that want to design for themselves but don’t have the skill or wallets to do everything from scratch.
Industry as been doing platform based design and development for most of the industrial 20th century, we want to help them learn how to transfer this knowledge so that designers can learn from this history and bridge this divide and deliver platform designed products for mass customization. Platformdesign.org is our way of nurturing this new and unique industry."