Open City: Innovative City in the age of Open Source-Embedded Taipei of Linux-Based EeePC
Date Issued
2011
Date
2011
Author(s)
Yang, Wen-Chuan
Abstract
Under the impacts of the Internet and open source, the traditional location theory of innovative cities has faced a new challenge. The new developing issue is how the industrial clusters in the physical space can collaborate with the open source communities existed in virtual space to develop products which can breakthrough the market. The key question is both of the two technology communities have distinct cultures of innovation: the former relies on closed and proprietary innovations to monopolize the market for superprofits; the latter stresses that innovation should be open and shared to make products with better quality, trust, and lower costs. Under these contrast circumstances, the cooperation between the Industry clusters and the open source community requires an intermediate spatial mechanism between the two to facilitate effective interaction.
From following three theoretical angles, the locational facters of open source innovation, how the industry clusters across their barriers to innovation, and the technological movement of civil society, this study attempts to explore the form, function, and dynamics of formation of this intermediate mechanism. This study suggests that the form of the intermediate mechanism is “temporary innovative milieu” constituted by projects and fairs; its function is to breed user-innovators driven open-source-innovations; and its formation dynamics come from the state and market mobilized by civil society. Traditional location theory of innovative city advocates that the innovative ability of city constraint by their permanent environment factors, whether it is the urban asset of the core city or the urban milieu of the edge city. Based on its fixed environment to nurture open-source-inovation, city needs to create a temporary environment, virtual network, space of flows.
The case study of embedded Taipei of Linux-based EeePC pointed out the city is the community to mobilize creativities in the open source era. The location theory of innovative city is no longer rigiditily confined to the concept of physical space. Taipei is not the core city, not the edge city, but the city has civil society- a sociological type of city. Further, this is the information city of the network society, Taipei, is the node , is the innovative node of the global metropolitan network. This study temporarily called this model of innovative city driven by civil society "open city".
Subjects
innovative city
open source
innovative milieu
technological movement
civil society
SDGs
Type
thesis
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