Pay every part from the value of the whole. In a contest web anyone may use anyone's part without asking; judges value the finished plans, and that value flows down automatically to the authors of every part inside them. Contributors then compete within a contest and cooperate across levels, because the way to earn is to be built upon.

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  In other words, even though proposal authors in a single contest compete with each other, the CoLab Points system provides incentives for them to collaborate with authors in higher- and lower-level contests.

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  The points each global proposal receives are then distributed automatically to the authors of the global proposal and all the lower level proposals it contains.

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  This means that integrated proposal authors can use any combination of other proposals they want to without having to get permission from the authors of the other proposals.

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