A new patronage network driven by a Transfer Technology Office sustained per Citizens
By Jose Mariscal
Definition
Patronage is the support, encouragement, privilege, or financial aid that an organization or individual bestows to another. In the history of art, arts patronage refers to the support that kings or popes have provided to musicians, painters, and sculptors. It can also refer to the right of bestowing offices or church benefices, the business given to a store by a regular customer, and the guardianship of saints. The word "patron" derives from the Latin patronus, "patron," one who gives benefits to his clients (see Patronage in ancient Rome).

Abstract
This essay proposes a new patronage network driven by a Transfer Technology Office sustained per Citizens. Engage to generate wealth created by innovator citizens and that this wealthy be distributed to thinker citizens.

Source readings: patronage history and the books The World is Flat and Open Business Models.

From the Beginning of the first Organized Societies, the art, supported by patronage Were sciences. The development of the same innovations to generate this value was by wealthy people and / or political power within society (e.g. family Medici, Pope Julius II who sponsored Rafael).

In other words, the benefits of this value was for people with resources and in some ways was "monopolized" the creation of innovations by the high echelons of society.

Whatever its roots, it became firmly institutionalized in Florentine life. As Biagioli describes it, patronage was not an "option." It was the key to social status, and, in Florence, there was an absolute social hierarchy. A career and social mobility were impossible apart from being involved in a network of patronage relationships. Even the working poor found themselves a part of this complicated web in their labor under Florence's