One evening some months back I had a marvelous dinner in Melbourne with Terry Cutler, a Board Member (at the time, acting as Chairman) of the CSIRO, Australia’s national science agency. In our enthusiastic exploration of the efficiencies and opportunities of rethinking innovation systems to embrace open systems and commons of capability, Terry [...]

Posted on February 28th, 2008 by Richard Jefferson
Filed under: BiOS Licensing, EOS, General, Science | 1 Comment »

A couple of years ago, a contributor to the BioForge forum, ‘Meredith’, asked me why Monsanto would ever participate in the BiOS Initiative or any other open source idea. I decided to repost an edited form of my reply here, since many others ask the same question. Well, Monsanto STILL hasn’t signed [...]

Posted on February 28th, 2008 by Richard Jefferson
Filed under: BiOS Licensing, Patents, Science, Social Enterprise | 4 Comments »