How can Universities develop viable Open Source products? -- Wuthering Bytes Open For Business
Channel: British Computer Society Open Source Specialists
Date: 31/03/2020

Universities undertake large amounts of software development R&D through a range of funding programmes and partnerships, and also as internal service development projects. However, direct commercialisation of software using common FOSS business models is still fairly rare, expertise in FOSS business models and licensing is very uneven among technology transfer units, and funding models rarely support viable software solutions.

So how can we put university R&D to work in developing viable products and services using FOSS? This talk will look at a few different approaches based on the experiences of OSS Watch at the University of Oxford.