13:30 - Lyon silk factories eco-system? towards an open revolution model?

Duration: 15 minutes

Speakers: Stephane Ribas (Inria - Direction du Développement Technologique, INRIA)

This presentation aim at presenting an economic community governance model used intensively in the Lyon (France) region during the 19th century in the silk domain. This model was open and supported by the town hall, many organizations and individuals.

The presentation review the different silk factories eco-system in the world (England, China, US, Italy...) and compare it with the Lyon Model in details. This talk will finally prove that being open is a model that creates positive eco-system where the different actors lives from their production (goods and knowledge).

This presentation will be presented as a story telling with many comparison with our current economic situation and open source models.

We will end up with the description of the Lyon Model and how we may apply it on our own projects.

13:45 - Effect on Business Management by Utilization and Contribution of Open Source Software in Japanese IT Companies

Duration: 15 minutes

Speakers: Tetsuo Noda (Professor, Shimane University)

The usage of Open Source Software (OSS) has been more general these days and OSS are utilized in a wide range of business fields not only IT industries. Behind the expansion, there exist OSS development communities, where voluntary engineers dedicate their time and effort for the improvement. Considering development engineers in the companies as input resources, it is important to investigate the output of business growth. In this study, we conducted questionnaire survey to Japanese IT companies in 2013, and then analyzed the present state and relation between OSS utilization and development contribution. Our study revealed that Japanese IT companies are rather free riders of OSS, the volume of development contributions are much less than that of utilization. With regard to the effect on the business growth, the results of correlation analysis implicates that OSS utilization is related to the sales growth in the present term and that development contribution is related to the future growth of the employee number in the company. In order to explore the direct effect on the business growth, we constructed the model of multiple-logistic and logistic analyses, however, no direct and explicit determinants are found from the analyses at this moment. Our research endeavors to investigate the OSS effect on the business growth are still on the way, but it is meaningful to provide the present state in numbers and hopefully this will lay some foundation for further study in this field.

In this study, we investigated the present state of the OSS utilization and development contribution of the IT companies in Japan. Based on the questionnaire survey data, we conducted correlation and logistical regression analyses to explore the OSS effects on the business growth. As an exploratory research, we encountered some methodological challenges and limitations of interpretation, however, there are a number of interesting research findings relating to OSS utilization and development contributions.

With regards to the research question 1), we found that many of Japanese IT companies are rather “free riders” in OSS utilization, without contributing to development in the OSS communities. Regarding the research question 2), it was suggested that Linux, Apache, and Database technologies are treated as the manner of proprietary software, while Ruby, Other Languages and Ruby on Rails are still developing object for contribution. In addition, we found that there is a similar trend in OSS development contributions by human resources and direct expenditures. With regard to the research question 3) the results of correlation analyses indicate that Japanese IT companies recognize the OSS utilizations have positive impacts on sales growth in the present term, rather than the subsequent term. Concerning the employee number, a number of significant correlations are shown in the prospect growth rate in the subsequent term, which suggests further research to examine the future positive impacts on human resources recognized by companies. In order to investigate more direct influential factor on business growth, we designed models for multiple-logistic and logistic analysis, however, the difficulty was encountered to interpret the results in positive and negative signs. We consider that building more concrete model and data collection are necessary to meet with our future research challenges. By the results of this study, we have not able to reach the final goal of our research to find the determinant and influential factor(s) affecting the business growth. However, it can be said that this result - no explicit determinant factor is found shows the complexity of the issues. This also indicates the limitation of data collection through questionnaire survey and statistical analyses. In order to reach our final goal, we recognize that a series of interviews to the IT companies’ representatives and engineers are necessary in deeper level.

At last, we recognize the limitation of our research since our data limits the Japanese IT companies. The present state and research findings are specific to the case of Japan. However, our research framework can be applicable to other countries and economies. We sincerely hope that some form of our research will lay the foundation of further researches to solve the complexity of the issue surrounding the OSS and business growth.

14:00 - Des sous pour l'open source : faut-il vendre son âme au diable ? non, il faut hacker le système !

Duration: 15 minutes

Speakers: Benjamin André (CEO & Co-foundor, Cozy Cloud)

Les vilains investisseurs veulent ils forcément tuer l'open source ? non, ils veulent des business models. Or aujourd'hui, l'open source est une alternative dont les challenger des GAFA ont besoin d'explorer pour innover. Quand les insiders ont besoin des outsiders... Anecdotes d'une levée de fonds (réussie).

14:15 - Open Business Models in software, manufacturing and data

Duration: 75 minutes

Speakers: Guillaume Crouigneau (CEO, CanalTP) / Patrice Bertrand (President, CNLL) / Bastien Guerry (Chargé de cours, Institut Supérieur d'Électronique de Paris (ISEP)) / Jean-Luc Wingert (Consultant & Chef de Projet, Symbioz Innovation / Fing)