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What is Open Source Lab Equipment? | P2P Foundation

One of the biggest obstacles to getting into biology, particularly genetics and synthetic biology, is the cost of lab equipment.
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How the Death of Patents Unleashed Open Source Innovation for 3D Printing

“It is now well known that imposed intellectual property law hurts progress because it ensures we are retarded by 20 year patent monopolies – a time frame which is laughable when compared to our current rate of innovation. Think about how pathetic a 20-year-old computer is compared to the android smartphone in your pocket.

 
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This entry was posted on Monday, November 4th, 2013 at 8:28 pm and is filed under Copyright/IP, Open Innovation, Open Models, P2P Manufacturing, P2P Science. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.

 
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Comparing business paradigms | P2P Foundation

Comparing business paradigms | P2P Foundation | Peer2Politics | Scoop.it

“People centered” means that control of infrastructure, access, distribution, resources, and co-governance are now on the scale of the individual person. When an individual person with this empowerment reaches their individual carrying capacity to operate, they will tend to reach out to others who are operating like them, and a connection-based network will emerge. Economic development here targets individuals operating as self-employed independents who network together. Independents, small businesses, community groups, working together, with government, higher education, and larger business are the new economic driver. The more control people have an on individual scale of infrastructure, access, distribution, resources, and governance, *and* the more connectivity there is between those people, the that more growth happens in “people centered economic development”.

When control of infrastructure, access, distribution, resources, and co-governance are now on the scale of the individual person, a new way of coopertive co-managing of existing resources, and surpluses of production tends to emerge. That new way of co-managing is known as “Resource Sharing”."

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Printers for Pearce: An Interview with 3D Printers for Peace’s Dr. Joshua Pearce - 3D Printing Industry

Printers for Pearce: An Interview with 3D Printers for Peace’s Dr. Joshua Pearce - 3D Printing Industry | Peer2Politics | Scoop.it

After realizing that I was seeing the same name at the heads of papers and projects that I was a big fan of – the Open Source Optics Library, 3D Printers for Peace, and a paper on the cost savings of the use of RepRap 3D printers in the home – I decided that Dr. Joshua Pearce was quickly becoming a hero of mine and that I wanted to interview him

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