Yong Qian joined the Collaborative Creativity Group at the UNU Maastricht Economic and Social Research Institute on Innovation and Technology (UNU-MERIT) in March 2010. He holds a master’s degree in Operations Management & Logistics from Eindhoven University of Technology, the Netherlands, and bachelor degree in Electrical Engineering from Zhejiang University, China. He currently works on several projects related to open source software development. Before joining UNU-MERIT, he worked in various industrial sectors as an electrical engineer and logistics coordinator in Germany, the Netherlands, and China.