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what if people saw the patents

aying dormant

new ways that we can incorporate these patents into new products?"

Marblar also obtained access to many patents from the University of Pennsylvania and from ETRI,

The site also partnered with Samsung,

or its potential to bring the patents of Marblar users to life.

Any idea that Samsung likes could find its way into Samsung technology, with 10 percent of the royalties going to the Marblar users who brought it to life

The contributors to a Marblar project might be helping an inventor out of the goodness of their heart, but they also stand to gain if a particular product gets the green light. Marblar rewards users who provide useful data or information by giving them "marbles," the websites namesake currency.

In the spirit of crowdsourcing, other Marblar users can help out a particular inventor whose idea they want to see come to life.

"As you submit product ideas and contribute market data or technical data, you get more marbles," Perez said.

The more marbles a person earns, the bigger the cut he or she gets in the royalty check if the product makes it to market.

Another website, Quirky

have a store dedicated to selling its users products

patents have become more associated with litigation than productivity.

"Patent trolls buy up patents to extract money, with no intention of actually creating a product," he said. "Marblar is like the anti-troll. We're looking for new ways to commercialize."

The platform is structured around commons, issues of social, environmental, economic nature,

treated as social objects: the nodes around which social networks are created, conversations and repeated interactions are initiated, new territories explored, meaning and intents shared, learning achieved.

‘pinging of actors’ by ‘citizen-followers’ creates a pull dynamic

will yield conversations, knowledge flow, and feedback loops beneficial to learning, progress visualization, and evaluation

reate a context favorable to collaboration, exchange of ideas and know-how.

The process consists in letting people/organizations:

Select, follow,

Keep informed and track progress

Self assign actor role and communicate/report on self-activity and impact and status of issue.

Share

Find solutions and potential collaborators for action

Select or refer designated actors to acknowledge or request their engagement and action at various levels

participate in the conversation, report on activity and impact

evaluate and rate activity/impact of and trust toward actors' activity, impact and progress.

organize for collective action

garner follower participation

Initiate and participate in conversations, debates, deliberations

The ecosystem is composed of

Common’s spaces

Common’s graph

Progress & Impact or Situation Dashboard

The platform creates a context for the following

Curate the knowledge flow and increase learning

Connect and interrelate people, stakeholders, issues, and knowledge.

Help situate an issue

Define boundaries

Help situate self and others

Identify roles and interdependence between actors and issues.

Visualize the emergent bigger picture

healthy amount of heated discussion, even arguing.

not feel so judged

become defensive and shut down

deliberative discourse

“Argue. Discuss. Argue. Discuss.”

It refers to participative and collaborative (but not critique-free) communication.

Multiple positions and views are expressed with a shared understanding that everyone is focused on a common goal. There is no hierarchy. It’s not debate because there are no opposing sides trying to “win.” Rather, it’s about working together to solve a problem and create new ideas.

Here are five key rules of engagement that we’ve found to yield fruitful sessions and ultimately lead to meaningful ideas.

creating a space where everyone can truly contribute.

“Yes, AND”

“no, BECAUSE.”

if you’re going to say no, you better be able to say why.

We conduct ethnographic research to inform our intuition, so we can understand people’s needs, problems, and values.

accountable to something other than our own opinions, and it means we can push back on colleagues’ ideas without getting personal.

We curate teams to create diversity

bring different ways of looking at the world and solving problems to the table.

Argument is productive for us because everyone knows that we’re working toward a shared goal.

The statement of purpose establishes the rules: It reminds us that we are working together to move the ball down the field. As much as we may argue and disagree, anything that happens in the room counts toward our shared goal. This enables us to argue and discuss without hurting one another.

Deliberative discourse is a form of play, and for play to yield great ideas, we have to take it seriously.