14. REGINA SIPOS ♀
Information acquired: 2025
REGINA SIPOS is an academic who published a paper in 2021 entitled How Open Is the Maker Movement? Integrative Literature Review of the Openness Practices in the Globa. REGINA SIPOS published this work as part of a team: Saari, Hanna. Here is a description of this work: Thi,, article explores the multiple meanings of the concept of openness in the global maker movement. Openness is viewed as one of the key principles of the maker movement. As the global maker movement is a bricolage of diverse and situated practices and traditions, there are also many different interpretations and ways of practicing openness. We have explored this diversity with an integrative literature review, relying on the Web of Scienceâ"¢ database. We identified three interrelated but also, in part, mutually contested approaches to openness. Firstly, openness often refers to applying open hardware. Secondly, it is in many cases related to the inclusion and empowerment of various groups in making. Thirdly, openness appears to be seen as a means to pursue economic growth through increasing innovation activity and entrep.