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2017年12月16日 · ATU develops 130 gongbans annually in areas ranging from smart phones, tablets, smart watches, smart homes, and industrial controls—and distributes the designs for free. WPI then makes money by trading in the boards’ components. "We call this shanzhai in Shenzhen. It’s a mass production artwork,” explains Lawrence Lin head of the ...
Description. "As Qualcomm puts it, FlashLinq “enables devices to discover each other automatically and continuously, and to communicate, peer-to-peer, at broadband speeds without the need for intermediary infrastructure.”. In other words, it’ll build a wireless network between FlashLinq-enabled devices, allowing those devices to pass data ...
Definition. "People’s organizations (POs), unlike NGOs, are established by and represent sectors of the population like small farmers, artisanal fisherfolk, slum dwellers and others. POs take a wide variety of forms and exist at various levels. - Community-based organizations (CBOs) mobilize and represent local populations and directly ...
- The Fab Lab Business Charter
- Typology
- Research Overview
- Fab Fund: Bringing Distributed Manufacturing Technologies to Companies
- Distributed Fabbing: Other Similar Business Models
Massimo Menichinelli: "Even the official Fab Lab Charter (drafted in 2007) recognize that Fab Labs could adopt a business model for commercial activities and roughly defines some guidelines for such models: - Business: commercial activities can be incubated in fab labs but they must not conflict with open access, they should grow beyond rather than...
Massimo Menichinelli: "Fab Lab Iceland reports 4 business models for Fab Labs: 1. The Enabler business model: launch new Labs or provide maintenance, supply chain or similar services for existing Labs. 2. The Education business model: a global distributed model of education through Fab Labs (with the Fab Academy) where global experts in particular ...
Massimo Menichinelli: "The most complete research about the business models of Fab Labs so far comes from Peter Troxler, especially in his paper “Commons-based Peer Production of Physical Goods— Is There Room for a Hybrid Innovation Ecology?“ (presented at the 3rd Free Culture Research Conference, October 2010 Berlin). Troxler found that in the cur...
Massimo Menichinelli: "Since Fab Labs have so far been dependent on fundings and have been rarely self-sufficient, Gershenfeld’s brother Alan and fellow venture capitalist Michael Angst founded a for-profit project called Fab Fund in 2007. The wiki at Fab Lab Iceland describes Fab Fund as: - a double-bottom line investment fund that seeks market fi...
Massimo Menichinelli: "Beside Fab Labs, there are more initiatives about distributed manufacturing and that are worth considering. This initiatives show different business models that can also be used within Fab Labs. Shapeways is a company that started within the Lifestyle Incubator of Philips at the beginning of 2009 (they then decided to be inde...
San Pisith is a Buddhist Monk and an Early Stage Researcher at Ragnar Nurkse Department of Innovation and Governance. He has joined the Cosmolocalism project since September 2019 to pursue a Ph.D. at TalTech, Estonia. His Ph.D. thesis focuses on Buddhist Economics, Buddhist Governance, Commons, and Happiness and Public Purpose.
2024年4月20日 · The Sardex is a monetary network that connects various businesses – at the moment it is trying to open to private citizens - helping them to exchange services and products without using Euros or other state currencies, and outside the limits of barter. The network lends Sardex credits to firms as bank credit, but with no interest.
The combination of open-source 3D Printing and open-source microcontrollers running on Free Software enables scientists, engineers, and lab personnel in every discipline to develop powerful research tools at unprecedented low costs. After reading Open-Source Lab, you will be able to: Lower equipment costs by making your own hardware.
