Sebastian Spaeth

Sebastian Spaeth

Professor Dr Sebastian Spaeth holds the chair of management and digital markets at the University of Hamburg, Germany and is spokesperson for the division of social economics. As a postdoctoral researcher at the chair of strategy and innovation management at ETH Zurich, Switzerland, Dr Spaeth conducted research on Collaborative Open Innovation and collaborative business models. He has published in numerous international Journals.

The advent of open source offers companies untold new benefits as well as making possible exciting new avenues of collaboration.

In 1984 computer scientist and “geek” Richard M. Stallman quit his job at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s Artificial Intelligence Lab in...