eBook: How Open is the Future?

How Open is the Future? edited by Jan Cornelis, the Vice-rector Research at Vrije Universiteit Brussel and Marleen Wynants, Operational Director of CROSSTALKS, the university and industry network aimed at developing a new interdisciplinary exchange dynamic for key players in society. This 534 pages pdf format book is a collection of 19 interesting articles under four parts namely – Driving Forces - dedicated to the key players and projects that are the driving forces of the so-called copyleft culture, Making It Happen - offering a range of inspiring cases and experiments on sustainable business model with a next economy of ideas to enhance the motivation of the people engaged in the process, Ethics & Bottlenecks – answering what constraints and bottlenecks do the laws of competition entail at the moment and what can be done about them and finally The Future Is Open – telling us on how to maintain the urge to be creative when there is no competition? how to maintain the innovative and creative drive, the rights and the plights typical of our lives in our society while constantly balancing the constraints and possibilities?. To download this book, visit crosstalks.vub.ac.be/publications/index.html