- Resource System
- Internet infrastructure
- Resource Units
- Information
- Location
- Internet
This case focuses on information provision by Sapphire Energy that is therefore a part of the innovation feedback system. This information is a public good because this is the information that is available for collective action. Innovation information primarily exists in other forms such as private goods and club goods, but this information cannot be used to inform our common future. It is the provision of this public good that is the subject of analysis because it provides insight into the sustainability of the future. Sapphire Energy is a company that is producing crude oil from algae. This information came either directly or was linked from Sapphire Energy’s web page. Each piece of information was categorized using the SES variables of Ostrom 2007 and is available here.
This CPR report was entered in 2013 by Madeline Tyson at Arizona State University.
Algae Crude Oil Information Provision
Resource System
Information about how to vulnerabilities of Algae Crude Oil
Resource Users
Future algae crude users, businesses, researchers, investors, governments, organizations
Public Infrastructure Providers
Management team of Sapphire Energy, IT team at Sapphire Energy, researchers, inventors, investors, business owners, lawyers, government officials, market regulators.
Public Infrastructure
Internet, journals, intellectual property laws and enforcement, legal systems, federal innovation investment, the internet, roads and distribution infrastructure, crude oil market
Relationship 1
Future resource users may access the information made available by Sapphire Energy. Sapphire Energy retains all rights to provide or exclude others from information.
Relationship 2
Future users elect governmental infrastructure providers
Relationship 3
Primarily maintenance is needed to keep up the current systems. The physical infrastructure in the US is aging and requires public infrastructure providers to maintain and rebuild it.
Relationship 4
Internet allows for efficient information copying
Relationship 5
The provision of information about the process may allow for new users to harvest algae, or to develop processes that will feed into the process.
Relationship 6
Provision of information is crucial for feedback system to function.
Exogenous Drivers 7 (Resource System)
Potential feedstock problems involving nutrient inputs and carbon dioxide inputs.
Exogenous Drivers 7 (Public Infrastructure)
Sapphire desires new carbon dioxide and natural gas pipe lines to be built to facilitate their process.
Exogenous Drivers 8 (Resource Users)
Migration to other systems, desire for greater equity in process, need education on new technology
Exogenous Drivers 8 (Public Infrastructure Providers)
Poor decision making as a result of governance dynamics.