The
authors developed the open source guild business model, which has the
elements of: building a focal micro-business with resources secured
through the guild, promoting learning and development through
apprenticeship, promoting shared values through a commons of experience
and capturing value by protecting key intellectual property. This
research was undertaken with two emergent micro-businesses in the North
West of England. The
open source guild model can be a mechanism for an emergent
micro-business to create a community around their values and grow their
business without conventional external investment of resources. Further research will be needed to establish the wider
applicability of the open source guild model.
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