开源创新过程的开放性以及成果的共享性,决定其本质上是知识作为公共产品,可以通过互联网由私人进行有效提供。开源创新的参与者同时受到结果性激励和参与性激励的驱动,那些具有较低开发成本和较高参与收益的年轻开发者会主动参与生命周期较长或商业价值更高的开源创新项目。当激励存在网络外部性且潜在开发者人数足够多时,所有开发者都会选择参与开源创新并持续进行贡献。开源创新为我国在信息化时代打造创新型国家提供了一种全新的思路。 The openness of the process of open source innovation and the sharing of results determine that in essence, knowledge as a public product can be effectively provided by the private individuals via the Internet. Driven by both fruitful and participatory incentives, open source innovation players who are young developers with lower development costs and higher participation benefits take the initiative to participate in open source innovation projects with longer life cycles or higher business value. When incentives have network externalities and there are enough potential developers, all developers choose to participate in and continue to contribute to open source innovation. Open source innovation for our country in the information age to create an innovative country provides a new idea.