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Australian non-profit CAMBIA promotes research and technological collaboration in the life sciences as a means of nurturing innovation and making current research more widely available to developing communities. The group’s Biological Innovation for Open Society (BiOS) Initiative, originally created to respond to nutrition and food security issues, provides a way of guiding development in light of this core principle and an administrative forum that supports collaboration across disciplines.
At heart, BiOS uses widespread interest in institutional transparency and open source development to create an intellectual commons in which members share research methods and patented technologies, modeling in many ways on the success of open source software development in other fields. This system–BiOS’s “protected commons”–allows supporters to share information securely and, unlike public domain information, guarantees that concepts and technology will be used by people who adhere to the group’s core philosophy and have the appropriate background in either development or research. BiOS’s approach to licensing successfully insures that innovation will have the greatest positive effect while recognizing the rights of creators.
. Historian Shae Davidson's research interests include public policy and the relationship between culture and civil society. His publications range from articles on industrial history to absurdist poetry.
