On the role of FOSS business models and participation architectures in supporting open innovation

Most research regarding innovation in free and open source
software (FOSS) pertains to identifying supporting conditions for
promoting code contribution. This raises concerns about the ability
of FOSS communities to remain innovative based only on the
perspectives of developer-users. Preliminary research suggests
different open source business models may provide motivation to
support greater involvement of non-developer users. This research
focuses on understanding the relationship between business model
and supporting participation architectures, beyond users’ code
contributions, to enable user participation in design of the software.