Open Source Development

Pathways from collaborative open source innovation to commercialization for low carbon development

a research paper for Open Source Ecology by Liam Rattray

Rough Outline

1. need for right livelihoods to subvert nonprofit industrial complex and coordinator class habits
2. localization to avoid outsourcing environmental reliance, Kuznets curve and leakage
3. political economy of conflict concerning technology transfer
4. argument for open source innovation revolution of intellectual property regime
5. hurdles to collaborative open source innovation
6. incentives and commercialization
7. ?current initiatives for low-carbon development?
8. economic development theory on endogenous development and flexible production models

Some Notes and Questions from Organizational_Strategy

What about the environmental economies of scale that comes from living in cities compared to rural communes?

two routes to commercialization: capitalist collusion or cooperative coalescence? CEB collectively owned by a farmers union and cooperatively managed or individually owned and rented out in a capitalist economy?

In nations with a developed infrastructure base is the creation of autonomous infrastructure bases redundant and wasteful? How can OSE communities leverage existing infrastructure base? “Right livelihood is predicated on autonomy in the provision of these basic needs. Otherwise, uncontrollable external forces such as employers, governments, or external providers of needs- produce misalignment with the most fundamental interests of the community.” Is trade not a necessary evil that produces misalignment?

“Overpopulation is addressed as only the number of people is invited into a particular community as can be supported by indigenous resources.” – closed borders policy, problematic?

“Our fundamental principle is that information is the critical, frequently absent component enabling the success of endeavors.” Innovation economics

History of socialist communes? How is Factor E Farm different?

Replace the word poor with the word “deprived”

“right livelihood enterprise community” = RLC

RLC Diffusion and Deployment

engage with right livelihood people’s movements leverage existing infrastructure base by supporting people’s control, public trust policy

Journals?

ecology and society the land: “the mechanized neoluddites”

Survey Search Terms

• innovation economics, intellectual property rights (IPR), public domain, free and open source