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 »

Well, its been a busy few months since my last post. I’ve been constantly traveling to meetings and working with prospective partners to try to generalize our work.
It now seems that the fundamental power of a harmonized patent informatics platform and a facility for supporting open innovation work has become widely appreciated. [...]

Posted on September 5th, 2007 by Richard Jefferson
Filed under: General, Patents, Science, Social Enterprise | No Comments »

It seems there has been a great, but hitherto unmentioned bureaucratic stuff up. The first page of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights was lost at some point by a harried office worker, perhaps stuck in a printer, and so neglected; or missed in a mass photocopying and stapling exercise. But never included [...]

Posted on April 5th, 2007 by Richard Jefferson
Filed under: General | No Comments »

Almost all technologies in the life sciences are intertwined and interdependent. Few discoveries stand on their own, and fewer inventions. Not only do they each depend on the pre-existing knowledge base, they almost always incorporate components of many other technologies in their execution.
This is particularly true for tools and technologies that [...]

Posted on April 4th, 2007 by Richard Jefferson
Filed under: BiOS Licensing, General, Patents | No Comments »

With the welcome attention to ‘neglected diseases’ such as malaria and tuberculosis associated with poverty, there is a tendency to forget the many health challenges such as heart disease, diabetes and cancer which wreak havoc in both worlds. These ’shared diseases’ have dramatically different markets in both first and third world, and [...]

Posted on April 4th, 2007 by Richard Jefferson
Filed under: General | 1 Comment »

In two weeks - April 19th - I’ll be at another conference in Melbourne, the World Congress of Science Journalists. At that congress, I’ll be producing a session about who benefits from science in a world where virtually every scientific discovery and platform is patented, and the elephant in the room: capability to use [...]

Posted on April 4th, 2007 by Richard Jefferson
Filed under: General, Patents, Science | No Comments »

I attended a meeting called A2K (Access To Knowledge) held at Yale last year (Conference Wiki).   I got to hang with some friends whom I admire, like Yochai Benkler (one of the organizers) and to get to know some remarkable people, like Shay David - a clear and articulate thinker who has since visited [...]

Posted on April 4th, 2007 by Richard Jefferson
Filed under: BiOS Licensing, General, Patents, Science, Social Enterprise | 1 Comment »