Project seastar is a social enterprise organized and operated exclusively to further education and innovation in providing essential services through research especially when common pool resources are implicated

 The purpose and objectives of project seastar is inspired by biology of seastars commonly known as starfish.

 The insights of this concept / ideology are illustrated in the book:  The Starfish and the Spider written by Ori Brafman and Rod A. Beckstrom.

  The authors contrast the spider and sea-star noting that the spider is a simple creature. It has a head, a body and eight legs. Cut off a leg or two and it can survive. Cut off its head and it quickly dies. Unlike the spider, the seastar is an enigma that perplexes scientists. It has five legs but no head. When you cut a seastar down the middle, the two halves will grow into two seastar. You can even cut some seastar into little pieces and each separate piece will grow into a new seastar. The seastar can do this because it has a decentralized neural network with no brain. Each portion of the seastar appears to govern; it has no overall command center. It is an example in resiliency and autonomy.