Thinker DAO, the Ecosystem for Evolving Innovation

Innovation is the highest value human activity. Yet existing systems are failing innovation on a variety of levels, among them: 1) current and future problems are too big to be solved by one organization or nation; 2) innovation is global but policy is local, 3) innovation systems are resistant to machine analysis and automation; 4) IP systems from patents to open source can discourage collaboration due to loss of economics; 4) legal frameworks carry too much overhead to allow rapid collaboration and failures; and 5) innovation systems are not broadly participatory, resulting in significant lost opportunity.

Read about how ThinkerDAO addresses these issues via application of blockchain and related technology in a transparent and fair business model.

Innovation involves many groups producing the components of innovation, all evolving in many directions in timeframes ranging from hours to decades, succeeding and failing in a global "coopetition" to solve key problems. No system of human or machine intelligence attempting to understand and improve innovation can effectively operate without understanding these dynamics, which current innovation systems fail to capture.

Read about how Thinker.DAO creates a fundamental, trustable, and auditable data infrastructure that allows machine learning and AI assistance to analyze and improve the innovation process, as well as some of the early results from our partner Emmy Network on the application of AI techniques to classify, improve, and manage innovation.

Thinker DAO empowers people to access, organize, and evolve a diverse ecosystem of global resources such as talent (people and AI), unique assets (technology, media, code, and data), and incentives (economic and non economic capital) to fulfill global innovation demand. Thinker DAO is the blockchain implementation of the Global Innovation Network operated for over a decade.

The Innovation Manifesto contains the foundational principles of our global mission to improve the human condition. It was authored with members of our Global Innovation Network in 2015.

We are constantly brainstorming new projects that use Thinker DAO as a way to incentivize the fair sharing of innovation assets.  The global digitalization of information leads to a billion-fold increase of potential reuses and misuses of digital assets that require a new infrastructure to manage.

You can read short summaries of the many exciting applications we are working on, ranging from national innovation ecosystems to innovation insurance and new forms of corporate innovation incentives, all using Thinker.DAO as a foundation for managing the world of shared digital assets such as Open Source Software, Media, and Data for Generative AI.