Community Enterprises are different from any
other organization that we know. They are not firms,
markets, or networks (Demil and Lecoq, 2006).
They are also not organizations like self-organized
commons (Ostrom, 1990) or open innovation projects
such as InnoCentive (Jeppesen and Lakhani, 2010),
NineSigma, or InnovationXchange. These open innovation
enterprises draw from large crowds of loosely
affiliated researchers, but, in stark contrast to CEs, they
acquire control over technology through the rewards
they offer. The non-exclusive sharing of produced
resources, in particular generative technologies, the lack
of control, and the lack of boundaries between the CE
and its environment are the main distinguishing properties
of CEs