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Inspired by: FP7 » OScar – The Open Source Car

version: 1 / created: 2010-08-10
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Originally submitted by: Vanessa Watkins
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Source of inspiration

European Commission Framework Programme for RTD (FP7)

Theme/activity of inspiration

Theme 8 - Socio-economic Sciences and the Humanities

Sub-theme/area of inspiration

Blue Sky Research on emerging issues and other research economies

Optional reference/s to FP7 project/s

Use the following format: Project Acronym (Project Reference No.). Use commas if more than one project is associated to this Wild Card, for example: ALFA-BIRD (213266), SAFAR (213374), LAPCAT-II (211485)
Source: INFU (225229) - http://www.innovation-futures.org/ http://www.theoscarproject.org/

Signal's headline

(max. 9 words)
OScar – The Open Source Car

Signal's description

(approx. 150 words)
Please describe the Weak Signal (approx. 150 words)
OScar is an open source project launched in 1999. The objective is to jointly develop a car on the internet according to open source principles. Thus, the soft- and hardware used in the project are freely accessible to everyone willing to participate in the project.

Keywords

open source, automotives, open innovation, participation

Signal's potential evolution

It could lead to...
issue type of issue/development potential impact on society timeframe for the issue to become at least 50% probable
#1 Change in current innovation patterns continuation
beneficial
now-2025

Importance

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Level 2: important for a particular world region All regions with internet access

Key driving forces of this signal

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Driver 1 Driver 2
Social With the so-called “Digital Natives” generation – the age group that grew up with Web 2.0. – entering leading position in companies and politics the collaboration via the internet will accelerate in all areas of life and all scientific disciplines.
Technological/Scientific The global establishment of novel forms of information technologies will revolutionise the way people interact and communicate with each other. The World Wide Web 2.0. enables more and more engineers, scientists and customers from all over the world to interact through virtual networks in order to exchange information and knowledge as well as collectively create knowledge.
Economic The increasing mobility of knowledge workers will lead to a diffusion of specific and innovation relevant knowledge that was originally merely existent in R&D departments of innovating firms. Additionally, the global success of open-source software development fosters a transfer of the initial open source concept from the sphere of software and digital goods to the domain of physical goods.

Major risks & opportunities associated to the signal

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Risks Opportunities
before 2015 A pervasive issue might be the solely virtually conducted prototyping and application of trial and error processes without conducting any evaluations drawing on real conditions regarding the application context. Therefore, the actual production and commercialisation of the virtually co-developed product may be too risky, due to insufficiencies concerning reliability performance and qualitative aspects. Open source concepts are quite established in the scope of digital goods and software development. Transferring the principle to tangible products could in the long run lead to a democratisation of innovation processes.

Potential stakeholders' actions

short-term actions
(now-2015)
longer-term
(after 2015)
Policy actors (at the international, European and national levels) Regulations for joint innovation processes: One significant obstacle might be the emergence of conflicts between community members as there are no licensing restrictions imposed to others and contributions are freely available to every participant of the project. In particular, conflicts might arise, due to insufficient regulations of compensation, especially when it comes to the commercialisation of the commonly developed product.

Signal's relevance for European Grand Challenges

where? please justify:
particularly relevant Europe world
Behavioural change
Innovation dynamics

Signal's relevance for thematic research areas

please justify:
particularly relevant
ICT - Information & communication technologies
Transport (including aeronautics)
Research infrastructures
International S&T Cooperation

Pan-European strategies influencing the signal

please justify:
particularly relevant
Facilitating and promoting knowledge sharing and transfer
Fostering and facilitating coherent international cooperation in science and technology

Research-friendly strategies potentially improving understanding of the signal

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please justify:
particularly relevant
Strengthening the actors in the research-friendly ecology
(i.e. Research funding organisations, universities, businesses, Research and Technology Organisations, Researchers and Citizens)