Berkman Luncheon Series >
8
2010
Preliminary Conclusions from The Industrial Cooperation Project
Carolina Rossini, Berkman Fellow
Tuesday, June 8, 12:30 pm
Berkman Center, 23 Everett
Street, second floor
RSVP required for those
attending in person (rsvp@cyber.law.harvard.edu)
This
event will be webcast live
at 12:30 pm ET and archived on our site shortly after.
The Industrial Cooperation Project (ICP) was conceived to provide a
broad understanding of industrial sectors and a possible map of
commons-based production by industrial actors and industries as a
whole, as opposed to commons-based production by individuals. The
Wealth of Networks began the task of looking at various “verticals” or
industry sectors that had a major impact on development, like
educational materials, biological innovation around both health and
food, and software and information technology, and outlined
then-present practices aimed at provisioning these goods on
commons-based models. The ICP extended that approach no new fields:
alternative energy, biotechnology (genomics and diagnostic kits),
educational materials and telecommunications. Understanding how
Intellectual Property affects innovation in each of those sectors - and
how external forces, such as public policies or "market interventions"
shape that interference - was a central theme of the research.
We will publish our results in the fall of 2010. But an early analysis
of the research finds evidence for commons-based production in
industrial sectors where the knowledge products are more inherently
digital, like in educational materials and genomics. So far we do not
see large-scale, system-wide commons-based production in industrial
sectors that reflect more traditional manufacturing practices, like
alternative energy and diagnostic kits - although we do find very
interesting sub-sectors that are undergoing transformation that looks
very similar to commons-based production.
What is most interesting is the changes in institutions that are
leading to commons based practices in industrial sectors. Because of
the role of large, non-individual corporate bodies in governing the
knowledge in industry, there is a real need to intervene in industrial
practice and policy to create the basic conditions and incentives for
corporations to engage in CBP.
The talk will explore some of the preliminary results from sectors, and
pose some questions about how best to create the boundary settings that
facilitate the emergence of CBP across different classes of industrial
sectors.
About Carolina
Carolina Rossini is a Fellow with the Cooperation Research Group at the
Berkman Center, coordinating the Industrial
Cooperation Project. She is an attorney with experience in
intellectual property, international
development, innovation policy, internet policy, the digital commons,
and the
impact of technology on cultures. Carolina is a legal advisor of the
Brazilian
Embassy in Washington in Intellectual Property and Innovation
International
Negotiations.
Carolina also coordinates the Brazilian Open Educational Resources Project:Challenges and Perspectives funded by the Open Society institute. Carolina holds positions at the Diplo Foundation as a fellow for the Intellectual Property and Internet Governance Program, where she authored and teach an online course on Intellectual Property, and at IQSensato as a Research Associate for the Access to Knowledge and Innovation Program. More...
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