Knowledge Commons

Governing the management or production of knowledge commons

Elinor Ostrom and her colleagues started to apply the Institutional Analysis and Development (IAD) framework on knowledge commons in 2007. However, the IAD framework is not sufficient to study knowledge commons. They extended the IAD framework into the Governing Knowledge Commons (GKC) framework which is better for studying the characteristics of knowledge commons.

The GKC framework is an institutional approach to governing the management or production of knowledge commons. Here, knowledge commons refers to information, science, knowledge, data and other types of intellectual and cultural resources. Thus, the GKC framework is used to govern the sharing and creation of this information.

In addition to the components from IAD framework, GKC framework includes resource characteristics as one additional component. The framework also includes the influence from the action arena on resource characteristics.

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Note. adopted from Frischmann, B. M., Madison, M. J., & Strandburg, K. J. (Eds.). (2014). *Governing Knowledge Commons.* Oxford University Press. Page 15.

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Frischmann, Brett M., Michael J. Madison, and Katherine J. Strandburg. 2014. Governing Knowledge Commons. Oxford University Press.

Hess, Charlotte and Elinor Ostrom. 2006. Understanding Knowledge as a Commons: From Theory to Practice. MIT Press.

Knowledge Commons

Governing the management or production of knowledge commons

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