In the work at home world, “Public Domain” courses usually tell you how to snap up public domain books and resell them. But there are manufacturing and other processes in the public domain that a smart organizer could help local folks put into production and then work from home brokering and marketing their products. Ask yourself… what’s the biggest waste by product produced locally? Then ask… what could it be used for? It could help you find a new niche and help pump dollars and life into your community in the process.
Here’s one idea from an online friend.From Beck McCray - Small Business Survival Blog
Researchers at universities worldwide have developed techniques for creating uses for otherwise wasted items, like chicken feathers and cotton plant stalks.
Some of these techniques can be licensed from the universities, and some are freely in the public domain. Can you put these ideas into practice, making something out of “nothing”?
Pulling together several different processes, a scientist in India is proposing ideas to make use of all of the cotton plant: fiber, stalk, seed and all. The concept paper was submitted to the Indian Council of Agricultural Research. Read about it in The Hindu.
Nebraska (USA) researchers are working specifically on fabrics, working with chicken feathers and rice straw. This research was released at the annual conference of the American Chemical Society in 2006. From Cnet Future Tech, via Business Filter.
So consider alternative products and alternative fibers.
If you know of a resource to help people tap into these concept papers and research results for their businesses, let me know!
[Photo of cotton plant in India by gflaig, from Flickr.]
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