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a) FOSS Business Models Materials by it@InWEnt:
This compilation provides an overview of InWEnt's main capacity building programmes and trainings in the area of "FOSS Business Models and Sustainable Development" + interesting selection of external training material and informationhttp://www.it-inwent.org/e2484/e3407/index_eng.html

O'Reilly discusses Open Source Business Models: http://www.eclipsecon.org/2005/presentations/EclipseCon2005_Tim_OReilly....

Open Source Business Models and Strategies: Research, Articles, and White Papers here....

b) IOSN FOSS4SME toolkit (wiki) including infos on

SME Guide Introduction
1. What's Free/Libre/Open Source Software?
2. Ten myths about free/libre open source software

http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/oreilly/opensource/news/myths_1199.html
3. Basic FLOSS adoption models
4. Finding and selecting software
5. Best practices for FLOSS adoption
6. FLOSS-based business models

If it is not already happening, the world will be populated by lots of "Smaller [FLOSS-like] businesses. Each with fewer, happier clients. Less money". Read here....

http://fosstoolkit.iosnasean.net/index.php?title=Main_Page

c) Interesting source of video lectures (mostly US-universities) on entrepreneurship / FOSS (careful: licence is CC non-commercial!).

http://academicearth.org/subjects/entrepreneurship/featured:ratings

d) list of (mostly European) FOSS case studies:

http://www.eosdirectory.com/case_study
http://academicearth.org/lectures/the-dynamics-of-open-source-software

e) openbusiness - a community discussing all sorts of Open Business - "a particular way of doing business online, which includes giving away or making available some degree of content or services for free. The business value of these models lies in producing revenues through associated services or in an adding value to the free product or service."

http://www.openbusiness.cc/

f) courses by UKs Open University on "The concept of innovation" http://openlearn.open.ac.uk/course/view.php?id=2898

(cc non-commercial)

e) online syllabus on Open Source ERP hosted by wikiuniversity:

http://en.wikiversity.org/wiki/Open_Source_ERP

f) The Open Source Business Resource (OSBR) is a free monthly publication of the Talent First Network. -" Your best resource for keeping up-to-date with the business of open source." http://www.osbr.ca/ojs/index.php/osbr

• FOSSBaazar has a number of videos by excellent speakers on FOSS business:
  

g) Open Source Versus Global financial crisis

Open source finds its way into the U.S. stimulus bill ->

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/7841486.stm

http://news.cnet.com/8301-13505_3-10164885-16.html

h) General Floss Concepts

http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/FLOSS_Concept_Booklet

Learn linux fundamentals course: 

http://learnlinux.tsf.org.za/courses/web-fundamentals.html

i) Government as clients

http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/FOSS_Government_Policy

h) News and blogs on FLOSS, business and innovation:

• The 451 group. 451 caos theory: A blog for the enterprise open source community <http://blogs.the451group.com/opensource/>

• Oswalder, A. Business model design and innovation blog <http://business-model-design.blogspot.com/>

• Galopini, R. Commercial open source software <http://robertogaloppini.net/>