Science as Social Enterprise: The CAMBIA BiOS Initiative

Publication Type:

Book Chapter

Source:

Legal Framework for e-Research: Realising the Potential, Volume 1, Number 4, p.13-44 (2006)

URL:

http://ses.library.usyd.edu.au/bitstream/2123/2686/1/LegalFramework_Ch18.pdf

Keywords:

biological innovation; Cambia Bios; framework; Innovation; science

Abstract:

Nearly four billion people live on daily incomes lower than the price of a latté at Starbucks. Most of them make dramatically less than that—and from that income, they must acquire their food, their medicine, their shelter and clothing, their education, and their recreation, and they must build their future and their dreams. Their lives, and the quality of their lives, hinge on biological innovation. Biological innovation is the ability to harness living systems for our social, environmental and economic well-being. It is the oldest and most fundamental form of human innovation, involving as it does the getting
of food, the striving for health, the making of homes, and the building of communities. The wealth created over the millennia through the domestication and husbandry of plants and animals has powered human society.

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