Commons-Based Business Models

Introduction

Commons Based Business Models contain some explicit reference to the business' or operations' link to the Commons.

You can find a definition of the Commons here and a list of the types and categories of the Commons at Category:Commons

On this page you will see the beginnings of a small collection of pages designed to help you analyze current operations or start a new one, all the while keeping the relationship to the Commons as the center of your deliberations.

If you do venture to the Commons Category you will see an almost dizzying number of entries. As the concept of Commons-Based endeavors becomes more widely understood we are also seeing a much needed increase in the specificity of information that is available pertaining to particular kinds of Commons as well as how those Commons are maintained, understood, and used. In the near future you will also find a number of ways of looking at this same information.

See already:

1. Business Models for the Commons
2. Business Models to Support Content Commons

More Information:

Related Projects

• Cooperative Ecology Project

Related entries

1. Open Business Models ; Open Business
2. Open Film Business Models ; Open Music Business Models
3. Free Software Business Models ; Open Source Business Models; Open Source Software Business Models
4. Free Business Models
5. Open Source Hardware Business Models ; Open Hardware Business Models

Media and Articles Related to Commons-Based Models

1. SXSW Talk on Commons-Based Business Models
2. Yochai Benkler's Wealth of Networks book, with links for a free ebook download
3. Articles by James Bernard Quilligan
4. International Journal of the Commons