Governing Knowledge Commons
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated; Oxford University Press
Published: 2014
Language: eng
Number of pages: 512
ISBN-13: 9780199972036
Subjects: Knowledge management; Information networks; Communities
Description: Knowledge commons are the subject of enormous recent interest and enthusiasm with respect to policy making about innovation, creative production, and intellectual property. This book argues that policy making should be based on evidence and on deeper understanding of what makes commons institutions tick. Scholars of the natural environment have developed successful methods for studying commons arrangements systematically and in detail. The book borrows from them and proposes a framework for studying knowledge commons that is adapted to the unique attributes of knowledge and information.