The Basement Interviews
Today I am publishing an interview with Richard Jefferson, founder and CEO of CAMBIA, and advocate for the Biological Open Source Movement. This is number nine of The Basement Interviews.
The first part of the introduction is being published here on my blog. The interview itself, including the full introduction, is available as a downloa...
Science as Social Enterprise: The CAMBIA BiOS Initiative
"Extraordinary efficiencies occur when the tools of innovation are shared, are dynamically enhanced, have increased levels of confidence (legal and otherwise) associated with their use, and are low or no-cost." Innovations, Fall 2006, p13-44.
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AVIAN INFLUENZA: Pushed by an Outsider, Scientists Call for Global Plan to Share Flu Data
In an unexpected show of cooperation, scientists from more than 30 countries have announced a plan to start sharing their often closely held data on avian influenza.
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Open Science: Open Source Licenses in Scientific Research
"Another success story in open science is CAMBIA...attempting to solve many of the problems open science has faced by the judicious use of IP work arounds...."
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Out to break biotech’s IP stranglehold
The Open Source software movement has broken the stranglehold of expensive, proprietary products. Could the same thing happen in biotechnology?
Whether you regard patents as a hindrance or a spur to innovation probably depends on how many you hold. The biotechnology industry, possibly more than any other sector, is tightly wedded to current ...
WIPO support for BIOS
I am writing to thank you for your recent visit to the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) and for the presentation on your plans for Cambia and for the BIOS initiative in particular. We found that your ideas and practical proposals offered important insights for our own consideration of how to move towards more effective analysis and ...
Patently Transparent
Nature Biotechnology editorial:
"The ability to interpret and filter intellectual property (IP) has never been more important...CAMBIA's Patent Lens is a giant leap in the right direction"
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Patent Transparency Critical for Innovation
Exploding numbers of patents and their declining quality, in both IT and the life sciences, are creating an urgent need for greater patent transparency and better public oversight. CAMBIA’s Patent Lens, as featured in Red Herring’s cover story this week, is a major step toward solving this problem.
The lifeblood of both the IT and life ...
Open Source BioTech
In a feature edition, renowned IT mag Red Herring focuses on CAMBIA's role in pushing the boundaries of the biotech industry.
Australian Richard A. Jefferson, an American-born molecular biologist, is out to increase innovation in the life sciences by applying software’s open-source model to biotechnology. His goal is to change the global ...
Open Source BioTech
"Patent transparency is the lifeblood of the new open source"
In a feature article, Red Herring focuses on CAMBIA's role in pushing the boundaries of the biotech industry.
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Controls over Plant Genetic Resources
Strategies from the patent system that keep technologies available to farmers could be adapted and built into biodiversity laws to suit the exchange of genetic resources. These could include open-source strategies as initiated by CAMBIA's BiOS Initiative.
Nature Reviews Genetics, April 01, 2006
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Open, but not as usual
As “open-source” models move beyond software into other businesses, their limitations are becoming apparent.
EVERY time internet users search on Google, shop at Amazon or trade on eBay, they rely on open-source software—products that are often built by volunteers and cost nothing to use. More than two-thirds of websites are hosted using ...