Episodes of Collective Invention

@misc{citeulike:3043425, abstract = {The process of developing a new technology through open discussion has been called collective invention. This paper documents two episodes of collective invention and proposes a general model based on search theory. The first episode deals with the development of mass production steel in the U.S. (1866-1885), and the second with early personal computers (19751985) . In both cases technical people openly discussed and sometimes shared technology they were developing. Both technologies advanced...}, author = {Meyer, Peter B. }, citeulike-article-id = {3043425}, posted-at = {2008-07-25 19:42:44}, priority = {2}, title = {Episodes of Collective Invention}, url = {http://citeseer.ist.psu.edu/664989.html} }

TY - GEN ID - citeulike:3043425 L3 - citeulike-article-id:3043425 N2 - The process of developing a new technology through open discussion has been called collective invention. This paper documents two episodes of collective invention and proposes a general model based on search theory. The first episode deals with the development of mass production steel in the U.S. (1866-1885), and the second with early personal computers (19751985) . In both cases technical people openly discussed and sometimes shared technology they were developing. Both technologies advanced... TI - Episodes of Collective Invention AU - Meyer, Peter UR - http://citeseer.ist.psu.edu/664989.html ER -