http://blogs.cambia.org/raj Thoughts from the Biological Open Source movement Thu, 28 Feb 2008 05:57:44 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en 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 ... http://blogs.cambia.org/raj/index.php/2008/02/28/eos-environmentalenergy-open-source/ 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. ... http://blogs.cambia.org/raj/index.php/2008/02/28/why-should-a-multinational-eg-monsanto-participate-in-an-open-source-initiative/ This topic is such fun, I could log in each day and all the ideas I've had for thirty years would start lining up on the framework of hologenomics. In the last few years our lab has been getting more deeply into Type IV Secretion Systems. We set out ... http://blogs.cambia.org/raj/index.php/2007/09/09/hologenomics-ii-type-iv-secretion-systems-and-horizontal-gene-transfer/ This one is a treat. An opportunity to blog about my ideas on science! It seems that most of my efforts these days are focused on BiOS, patent transparency and innovation strategies. Science is still an important part of my life, but my dismay at ... http://blogs.cambia.org/raj/index.php/2007/09/06/the-hologenome-hologenomics/ 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 ... http://blogs.cambia.org/raj/index.php/2007/09/05/initiative-for-open-innovation/ 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 ... http://blogs.cambia.org/raj/index.php/2007/04/05/freedom-to-innovate/