IP

Name: Intellectual property

What

Intellectual property is a product of the intellect that has commercial value, including copyrighted property such as literary or artistic works, and ideational property, such as patents, appellations of origin, business methods, and industrial processes. [1]

Enablers

Because everybody wants to receive value for there intellectual property people are eager to defend his/her own "work". It's a about the money & fame. "Intellectual Property will be motivated by the economic realities of the information revolution where information is a value-added activity, which means everyone can profit by making every fact patented. It is definitely a money making business." [2]

Inhibitors

More open source program that allows sharing of knowledge will lead to less Intellectual Property because the knowledge it not of one person anymore.

Paradigms

Every knowledge you create could be valuable for money.

Experts

LIACS group 2006 "Future of Intellectual Property"

Web Resources

www.answers.com [1]
http://scenariothinking.org/wiki/index.php/Future_of_Intellectual_Property#Scenarios [2]