What is collaborative entrepreneurship?

Collaborative entrepreneurship is a form of entrepreneurship proposed and practiced by Sensoricans, inside the Open Value Network (OVN) model, to incubate open ventures. The substance lives in practice: the Venture page, the OVN economic model, Sensorica's native working documents, and the recent effort to treat p2p, commons-based peer production, and collaborative entrepreneurship as complexity-processing practices.

This document is a conceptual presentation, leading to a proposition of an educational program in collaborative entrepreneurship. 

Working definition

Collaborative entrepreneurship is the practice of initiating, attracting, coordinating, and stewarding an open venture: a permissionless, transparent, for-benefit economic operation that clusters peer-produced resources into a living context of work, shares risk among contributors, accounts for heterogeneous contributions, and redistributes benefits without turning contributors into employees or the venture into privately owned equity.

HealthNet: Rebuilding Trust in Open Medical Innovation

The Vision: An Ecosystem for Open Healthcare Some of the world's most urgent health needs go unmet, not because solutions are impossible, but because they are unprofitable. Rare diseases, affordable therapies, and do-it-yourself (DIY) medical devices rarely attract the investment of large manufacturers. HealthNet is a project designed to change that.

Young cystic fibrosis patient at Sainte Justine Hospital using the PEP Master device.

HealthNet is a new model for creating, verifying, and sharing open source medical devices and software. It brings together developers, researchers, medical professionals, and patients into a single collaborative ecosystem, one where high-quality, life-improving solutions can be built in the open and trusted by everyone who depends on them. Our goal is to prove that healthcare innovation can be transparent, collaborative, and accessible to all, without sacrificing safety or quality.