Wharton-SMU Research Center

In-House Seminar

Speaker:

Professor Bruce M Kogut
The Wharton School
University of Pennsylvania

Topic:
The Emergence of E-innovation-Insights from Open Software Development

Chairman:
Prof. Augustine H H Tan
Deputy Director, The Wharton-SMU Research center

Venue:
Conference Room, Singapore Management University, 47 Scotts Road, #06-00, Goldbell Towers, Singapore 228233.

Date:
Wednesday, 2 August 2000, at 3.30 pm

Reservation:

Places are limited. Please confirm your attendance by Tuesday, 1 August, 12 pm with Meena at swaminat@smu.edu.sg or telephone 822-0383.

About the Seminar:
The Open Source Movement in software development is poised for victory. This movement is a wobbly coalition of free market philosophers, anti-profit radicals, has-been-Microsofts, tomorrow's monopolists. They argue that software should be open to the community of developers. They pose a radical re-definition of property rights that has echoes in the debates over copyright and patent law in all fields.
Beneath all this, there is ultimately a more radical revolution. The Open Source Movement is the first major demonstration of what the internet means for the future of work and innovation on a global basis.
We call this "E-Innovation". It represents a powerful model for the organization of research and development, for the arts, for the creation of global community of innovators. And it raises significant implications for expansion of creativity in all domains.

About the speaker:
Professor Bruce M Kogut is the Felix Zandman Professor of International Management. Hejoined the Wharton faculty in 1983.
His research areas are in Technology innovation; privatization and transition economies; knowledge management. Training programs in international corporate strategy for international companies; consulting in international joint venture and alliances; corporate reorganization.