The RTO SystemX dedicated to the digital engineering of the systems of the future, aims to become an important player of open source. Every year, along with industrial and academic partners, the teams of the institute develop a vast number of technological assets (software, datasets, etc.) within the framework of research projects and programmes. By opening the source codes of some of its assets, in line with its role as accelerator of digital transformation, SystemX aims for a wider dissemination of the results of their works towards the socio-economic world.
“From the onset, SystemX has offered a place of innovation open to all its partners because we believe in collective intelligence. The development of an open source strategy is thus perfectly in line with our approach and values. Open source also has a prominent role in scientific research. At the foundation of critical software and key scientific projects, it has become a decisive element in the processes of innovation led by digital businesses,”
The drive of the institute to multiply the transition of its technological assets to open source is in line with several objectives:
- Generate a lever effect on its assets to enrich them and strengthen them further by mobilising various communities, including the scientific community;
- Simplify the mutualisation and re-use of its assets in the institute’s projects and by its partners;
- Streamline their adoption by the industrial world and accelerate the digital transformation of key fields;
- Boost the emergence of new opportunities, namely in the area of training or even consultancy services.
