Peer Production and Industrial Cooperation in Alternative Energy

URL = http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/commonsbasedresearch/Alternative_Energy

Description

Summary from the Industrial Cooperation Project:

"The second sector is one of enormous importance, but one for which there has been practically no work done on innovation policy to foster cooperation and knowledge sharing — Alternative Energy. Here, the practices are less well developed, there is no real structure for commons-based practices, but there is substantial and interesting support from the current United States Department of Energy to embrace innovation-sharing practices as part of the global effort to address climate change and sustainability. In this regard, the area is important, and particularly fertile for developing new political alliances around questions of innovation and development as checks on IP. See the AE Synthesis here and working papers here." (http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/commonsbasedresearch/Alternative_Energy)

More Information

• ICP Synthesis, http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/commonsbasedresearch/ICP_Sectors
• ICP Working Papers, http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/commonsbasedresearch/ICP_Reports_and_Working_Papers