“Those who do not engage in open and collaborative models are not in a position to win the digital battle” – Interview with Gilles Babinet

“Those who do not engage in open and collaborative models are not in a position to win the digital battle” – Interview with Gilles Babinet

Gilles Babinet is an entrepreneur. He represents France at the European Commission as a “Digital Champion”. He published The Digital era, a new age of humanity, 5 changes that will turn our lives upside down (Le Passeur, 2014). His credo? Go far from ideologies, experiment, discuss, fail, and try again! This article is an excerpt […]

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“SoScience is serving social entrepreneurs” – Interview with Mélanie Marcel (SoScience)

“SoScience is serving social entrepreneurs” – Interview with Mélanie Marcel (SoScience)

Co-founder of SoScience, a start-up which promotes responsible research while favoring high level scientific technological development for social entrepreneurs, Mélanie Marcel believes that before looking at profitability, it is necessary to first convince that open science is useful to society.
 



 This article is an excerpt of the book Open models published in French in 2014 […]

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“Earn less economic value to create more social value” – Interview with Michel Bauwens

“Earn less economic value to create more social value” – Interview with Michel Bauwens

Michel Bauwens is a peer-to-peer theorist, author and speaker on technological and cultural innovation. For him, we have already started to see evidence of a space which exists for open business models. “This article is an excerpt of the book Open models published in French in 2014 and translated in 2016”

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« Knowing how to manage Big data » – Interview with Julien Thérier (Shazino)

« Knowing how to manage Big data » –  Interview with Julien Thérier (Shazino)

This article is an excerpt of the book Open models published in French in 2014 and translated in 2016. Shazino is a start-up developing innovative applications to improve knowledge sharing and collaboration between scientists. Shazino is part of the “Science 2.0” wave and Julien, its founder, explains here how the freemium model allowed him to […]

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Mozilla created a hybrid model combining contribution, affiliation and an audience traffic business – an interview with Tristan Nitot

Mozilla created a hybrid model combining contribution, affiliation and an audience traffic business – an interview with Tristan Nitot

This article is an excerpt of the book Open models published in French in 2014 and translated in 2016. Tristan Nitot has been part of Mozilla right from the beginning, and was until 2015 its Principal Chief Evangelist and Firestarter. He is now looking back on his time at Mozilla, its history and business models. […]

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Draw me an open model, please – interview with Sophie Gautier & Laurent Séguin

Draw me an open model, please – interview with Sophie Gautier & Laurent Séguin

This article is an excerpt of the book Open models published in French in 2014 and translated in 2016. For this interview, Bastien GUERRY role-played The Little Prince*. In the role of Saint-Exupéry: Sophie GAUTIER (The Document Foundation, who is behind Libre Office) and Laurent SÉGUIN (Association of French-Speaking Free Software Users). Draw me a […]

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“Free software is an irrepressible urge to transmit and share knowledge” – Interview with Jean-Paul Smets (Nexedi)

“Free software is an irrepressible urge to transmit and share knowledge” – Interview with Jean-Paul Smets (Nexedi)

This article is an excerpt of the book Open models published in French in 2014 and translated in 2016. Jean-Paul Smets, CEO of Nexedi, publisher of the free software ERP5, generates 90% of his business from export. Fifteen years ago, he co-authored a book whose title speaks for itself: « LOGICIELS LIBRES. Liberté, égalité, business […]

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“We have reached the limits of the Fordist model”

“We have reached the limits of the Fordist model”

This article is an excerpt of the book Open models published in French in 2014 and translated in 2016. Bernard Stiegler is a philosopher and evolution of technical systems theorist. He discovered open models almost by accident when he was Director of France’s National Audiovisual Institute (INA). Initiator and president of the philosophical think tank […]

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It is totally doable to both contribute to the Commons and succeed as a business.

It is totally doable to both contribute to the Commons and succeed as a business.

Creative Commons launched a Kickstarter campaign to crowdfund a book on open models : Made with Creative Commons: A book on open business models. A few days before the campaign ends we interviewed Paul and Sarah who co-lead the project. A way to continue the discussion started last year when we published Open Models.  Are CC licenses […]

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