INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF ENTREPRENEURSHIP AND INNOVATION MANAGEMENT
Abstract
Can a web-based community of peers autonomously engage in
architectural innovation and develop tangible products? We present a
theoretical framework that builds upon the idea of product modularisation as
a knowledge management tool enabling community collaboration. The
framework consists of a community meta-model and a product meta-model;
some mechanisms enabling collective innovation are also presented as part of
the framework. We then apply the theoretical framework to the real case of a
high-performance human powered watercraft showing how the community was
able to innovate the artefact evolving its modular architecture.
