White paper on creativity - ebla center

Chapter 9drives the variety and heterogeneity ofproducers.In Italy, the creation and growth of aninformation services industry able tocope with the widespreadheterogeneous fabric of potential usersis an indispensable condition forclosing the gap in the diffusion of newinformation and communicationstechnology between Italianproductivity and that of othercountries which have benefited fromdigital economies of density.The creation of platforms bringingtogether pieces of application softwareand, therefore, partial advantages interms of economies of density, at leastfor the central components andinterfaces of software programmescould encourage this process. In thiscase intellectual property rights arenaturally very important and notsurprisingly have been significantlystrengthened in recent years. Thespread of Open Source, seen as anorganisational method, offers access tothe source codes of applicationsoftware models to communities of“application craftspeople”, making itpossible to share incrementalsolutions. It could thus could play akey role in the diffusion of newinformation technology in the Italianeconomy.WHITE PAPER ON CREATIVITY 228