This Article illustrates an agenda for investigating the mechanics of innovation contexts. The
title of the symposium of which the Article is a partI" Open Source and Proprietary Models of
Innovation: Beyond Ideology" Icaptures its premise almost perfectly: The world of intellectual
property law and the conventional analyses of innovation and creativity ask the wrong set of
questions. Our claim is that the world does not contain just two paradigms of innovation-
proprietary and open-but that any given innovation context offers an opportunity to explore …