SBIR Phase II: Method of Integrated Web-Based Tools to Enable a Collaborative Community of Professional Creatives

这个小企业创新研究（SBIR）第二阶段项目为创意产业的专业人士提供了一套基于网络的综合应用程序。这些专业人士包括作家、摄影师、插画家、电影制作人、动画师、产品设计师、程序员和制作人等创意人员。其创意活动的产品包括音乐、文学、图像、视听、通信和产品设计领域的商业和美术应用。这些产品的最终用户范围从个人消费者到全球工业、教育和政府。这种创新建立在通过第一阶段努力开发的软件即服务工具的基础上，并将它们带到下一个进化水平。网站订阅者之间的协作和商业工具将被开发和发布。通过这些工具和它的文化企业家网络，Artbox.com建立了一个21世纪的互联网集市，在这里，有才华的、有成就的思想家和制造者聚集在一起，交换他们的想法和发明。作为不断发展的创意产业背后的驱动力，独立创意人已经证明了对这种创新所提供的解决方案的需求和渴望。互联网已经改变了几乎所有企业的经济现实，美国经济正处于一个转折点。以制造业和信息技术为基础的旧模式受到海外廉价劳动力的极大影响。这些趋势的观察者已经发现，“创新”、“想象力”和“集体智慧”构成了全球市场竞争优势的新基础。在创新经济中，原创内容、概念和产品的创造者也是价值的创造者。如果成功，Artbox.com将为企业和个人建立一个强大的网络和高效的人才资源工具。

This Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase II project provides an integrated suite of Web-based applications to an online network of professionals in the creative industries. These professionals include Creatives such as writers, photographers, illustrators, filmmakers, animators, product designers, programmers and producers. The products of their creative activities include both commercial and fine-arts applications in the realms of music, literature, imagery, audio-visuals, communications and product design. The end users of these products range from the personal consumer to global industry, education and government. This innovation builds on the software-as-a-service tools developed through Phase I efforts and brings them to their next evolutionary level. Tools to enable collaboration and commerce among subscribers to the site will be developed and released. With these tools and its network of cultural entrepreneurs, Artbox.com establishes a 21st-century internet agora, in which talented, accomplished thinkers-and-makers assemble to trade their ideas and inventions.Independent Creatives, the driving force behind the growing Creative Industries, have demonstrated a need and desire for the kind of solutions that this innovation intends to provide. The Internet has changed the economic realities of almost every business, and the American economy is at a turning point. Old models based on manufacturing and information technology have been greatly affected by the availability of cheap labor overseas. Observers of these trends have identified that "innovation," "imagination" and "collective intelligence" form the new basis for competitive advantage in the global marketplace. In an innovation economy, creators of original content, concepts and products are also the creators of value. If successful, Artbox.com will build a powerful network and efficient talent-sourcing tool for businesses and individuals alike.