Philosophy

Industry Commons is built on these foundational principles:

• Social, ecological and cultural impact is key to industry growth and economic sustainability.
• Creating a transversal value system maximises the potential for non-disruptive radical innovation.
• Radical rather than incremental innovation is required to solve grand societal challenges.
• Radical innovation is disruptive to industry only when it occurs outside of its value chain.
• It is possible to integrate radical innovation safely with existing industry capabilities.
• The current industrial technological environment presents the affordances, and offers the conditions, for radical innovation.
• The current dominant data-driven production technologies, such as embedded-ware, automation, robotics and AI provide a technological framework for cross-sector collaboration.
• Data-driven interfaces, such as APIs, GUIs and TUIs, are key technology enablers of transversal applications across industry sectors.
• Hybrid products, processes and services, can lead to the creation of entirely new markets at the junction between domains.
• Emerging technological environments require the creation of new standards for cross-domain collaboration.
• Smart legal frameworks can maximise the opportunity for industry to co-create.
• Intelligent data systems are key enablers for collaborative and distributed multiplier open innovation environments.
• Novel hybrid products enabled by transversal tools of production stimulate a new culture of use and open new markets.
• Diversity and inclusion stimulate a wider culture of use and result in the broadest market reach.
• The future of work relies on upskilling and amplifying human abilities of a large and diverse workforce that can leverage the intellectual capital of different geographical regions.
• Culture and creativity is key for evolving a human-centric, ethical, and secure culture of work.