Creative Flows. An Economic Model for Distributed Design and Production

We envision a scalable economic model based on participatory economic theories that can sustain the distributed design and production of software and hardware based on the free and open-source ethos. Beyond licensing, we imagine a model that rewards people making contributions to projects for which free markets have a demand. The underpinnings of our model are abundance and shared information, whereas we see scarcity and accumulation of knowledge as the shortcomings of economic models currently applied to most free markets. We name this model Creative Flows, and we propose it for adoption in the Fab City network through the implementation of Fab City OS.