Ecuador Initiative: Commons-Oriented Productive Capacities

ECUADOR INITIATIVE: Transition Proposals Toward a Commons-Oriented Economy and Society

Sponsored by the National Institute of Advanced Studies of Ecuador, carried out by the Free/Libre Open Knowledge (FLOK) Society.

Commons-oriented Productive Capacities

• 1 Executive summary
• 2 Introduction and focus: basic principles
  • 2.1 The concept and forms of the knowledge economy
• 3 A critique of cognitive capitalism
  • 3.1 Intellectual property rights and their supposed role in cognitive capitalism
  • 3.2 A synopsis of empirical evidence on the effect of exclusive intellectual property regimes on innovation and productivity
  • 3.3 The real function of intellectual property rights in cognitive capitalism: how do capitalist firms actually use them?
• 4 Alternatives to capitalist models
  • 4.1 The real enablers of innovation
  • 4.2 The FLOK model
• 5 Open knowledge commons in the primary and secondary economy sectors
  • 5.1 Transforming the primary sector
    • 5.1.1 Case-study 1: Open Source Ecology
    • 5.1.2 Case-study 2: Community-managed, sustainable agriculture in India
  • 5.2 Transforming the secondary sector: open design commons for distributed manufacturing
    • 5.2.1 Case-study 1: RepRap
    • 5.2.2 Case-study 2: Wikispeed
    • 5.2.3 Case-Study 3: The case of generic AIDS drugs in Brazil
• 6 Preliminary general principles for policy making
• 7 References

See Also:

Ecuador Initiative @ Phi Beta Iota

Michel Bauwens @ Phi Beta Iota