February 2017 - Without Model

Open data: from the killer app to the platform economy

What would Gameboy have been without Tetris, Wii without Wiifit, and Windows without its Office suite and Facebook without its instant messenger? Each platform has built its success around one application, the killer app, the one which in and of itself justified the purchase or adoption of the platform. Where are the killer apps born […]

“SoScience is serving social entrepreneurs” – Interview with Mélanie Marcel (SoScience)

Co-founder of SoScience, a start-up which promotes responsible research while favoring high level scientific technological development for social entrepreneurs, Mélanie Marcel believes that before looking at profitability, it is necessary to first convince that open science is useful to society.       This article is an excerpt of the book Open models published in French in 2014 […]

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Open data: from the killer app to the platform economy

“SoScience is serving social entrepreneurs” – Interview with Mélanie Marcel (SoScience)