Open Source Business Model

Supporting Case Examples with IP Intensive Products

• Lulzbot
• Open Source Vehicle

Non-Supporting Examples with IP Intensive Products

• Makerbot
• OpenROV (not open source according to the OSHWA definition)
• LittleBits

Supporting Cases of IP Non-Intemsive Products

• Sparkfun Electronics

Non-Supporting Theory

• Assertion that open source business model doesn't work because of its failure to establish a positive revenue feedback loop - http://globalguerrillas.typepad.com/globalguerrillas/2014/12/the-road-to-turking.html

Supporting Theory

• osh valuation, Pearce, 2014
• PhD thesis, Mota, 2015