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"the solution to bringing virtually any product idea to life. Part platform, part process, Quirky is rapidly changing the way people think about product development by using a unique method to harness the power of creativity. "

The challenge of the future is to make the transition from the management of individual departments to cooperation in thought and deed. Supply Chain Management - the cooperation of partners all along the value chain - makes this development from individual thinking to comprehensive cooperation possible. Top experts are needed to coordinate inter-company strategies and cooperation, cooperation with an international focus and the implementation of new concepts and technologies.

Not since Marx identified the manufacturing plants of Manchester as the blueprint for the new capitalist society has there been a deeper transformation of the fundamentals of our social life. As political, economic, and social systems transform themselves into distributed networks, a new human dynamic is emerging: peer to peer (P2P). As P2P gives rise to the emergence of a third mode of production, a third mode of governance, and a third mode of property, it is poised to overhaul our political economy in unprecedented ways. This essay aims to develop a conceptual framework ('P2P theory') capable of explaining these new social processes.