OScar – The Open Source Car

OScar is an open source project launched in 1999. The objective is to jointly develop a car on the internet according to open source principles. Thus, the soft- and hardware used in the project are freely accessible to everyone...

Disruptive Innovation from India: The Tata Nano

In January 2007 Tata Motors, India´s largest company in the automobile and commercial vehicle sector, launched a four-seater car with a purchasing price of around 1440 Euro. The Tata Nano is now the world’s cheapest car. Aut...

Increased User Innovations in Sustainable Transports

Due to the further spread of virtual communities and online innovation platforms, customer innovations in the field of automotives and transport slowly advance.