Tag Archive for 'coopetition'

Open Source Offering: Facts, Fear and Affirmative Action

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Roberto Galoppini
on March 23, 2009
in Europe eGov, Italians do it, My Meetings and Open Business Models
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“Open Source Offering in Italy: an Analysis of an evolving Sector” conference follow-up are addressed by Stefano Micelli on first draft blog. Stefano brings me in because of something I said at the conference, commenting a research finding saying that small firms tend not to partner with other firms.

Affirmative action is needed to enable “lucrative coopetition“, in order to reduce R&D costs and foster innovation?

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Italian Blogosphere: Piùblog 2008 meet-up

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Roberto Galoppini
on December 8, 2008
in Corporate Blog and Italians do it
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Piu’blog 2008 , arrived this year at its third edition, aims at spreading the Italian blogosphere out of the blogosphere. Piùblog - hold within the the annual fair of the independent Italian publishers “Più libri più liberi” from the 5th of December until today - offered more than 30 different sessions, ranging from Second Life to social media and networks.

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Roberto has over 20 years experience in the computer industry, and has spent the last 10 years working in the intersection of open source software and business development. Roberto has taken an active interest in different open source projects and organizations, he also served on some advisory boards, and helped large IT vendors, open source vendors and customers to design and deploy their open source strategies. He works at SourceForge, and opinions expressed here don't necessarily represent employer's positions, strategies, or opinion.