Preconditions for access regime to work

• Under an access regime Customer seeks to build value through broader community participation by:

  • encouraging competition in the provision of services in relation to the product
  • creating a broader market for the acquisition of those services (feeds back into above)
  • promotes standardisation and interoperability
  • leveraging off third party improvements to the product (requirement included as part of access regime)

• Therefore may not work for products which are:

  • truly customer specific or small niche market (query whether open approach is detrimental);
  • highly confidential info or “killer apps”;
  • products which don’t admit of modular or incremental creation/improvement (not clear whether these exist).