http://hdl.handle.net/2123/2662 Search the Channel search http://ses.library.usyd.edu.au/simple-search http://hdl.handle.net/2123/2689 Title: Author Biographies and Index<br/><br/>Authors: Fitzgerald, Brian http://hdl.handle.net/2123/2688 Title: Australian Survey on Legal Issues Facing e-Research<br/><br/>Authors: Heffernan, Maree; Kiel-Chisholm, Scott<br/><br/>Abstract: The Legal Framework for e-Research Project lead by Professor BrianFitzgerald and hosted by the Queensland University of Technology(QUT) is funded by the Australian Commonwealth Department ofEducation, Employment and Workplace Relations (DEEWR), formerlyEducation, Science and Training (DEST), under the SystemicInfrastructure Initiative (SII), Research Information InfrastructureFramework for Australian Higher Education, as part of theCommonwealth Government’s Backing Australia’s Ability – An InnovationAction Plan for the Future (BAA).The Project involves mapping out a sophisticated legal framework for e-Research and collaborative innovation. As we transition into theNational Collaborative Research Infrastructure Strategy (NCRIS)2 era it is vitally important that social and legal aspects of the e-Researchframework are developed in step with the rapid advances in technology.Only little work has been done in this area worldwide.This project is linking with key international actors to provide aninternationally significant project. While the Open Access toKnowledge (OAK) Law Project3 aims to examine the role of openaccess to all in an Internet world, this project also focuses on openinnovation within secure knowledge communities – both are vitalaspects of the e-Research framework. The critical issue is working outlegal models for e-Research that reflect the capacity of the technologiesinvolved and can be implemented quickly, effectively and (in manyinstances) in an automated way. http://hdl.handle.net/2123/2687 Title: e-Research and Jurisdiction<br/><br/>Authors: Middleton, Gaye<br/><br/>Abstract: As part of their daily activities, those involved in e-research will oftentransfer information, including background materials, research resultsand software, across state and national borders. The act of transferringinformation across state and national borders raises a number ofjurisdictional issues. This chapter will discuss key issues regardingintellectual property, privacy and dispute resolution as they arise from eresearcherstransferring information across state and national borders,and how these issues may contractually be resolved. http://hdl.handle.net/2123/2686 Title: Science as Social Enterprise: The CAMBIA BiOS Initiative<br/><br/>Authors: Jefferson, Richard<br/><br/>Abstract: Nearly four billion people live on daily incomes lower than the price of alatté at Starbucks. Most of them make dramatically less than that—andfrom that income, they must acquire their food, their medicine, theirshelter and clothing, their education, and their recreation, and they mustbuild their future and their dreams. Their lives, and the quality of theirlives, hinge on biological innovation.Biological innovation is the ability to harness living systems for oursocial, environmental and economic well-being. It is the oldest and mostfundamental form of human innovation, involving as it does the gettingof food, the striving for health, the making of homes, and the buildingof communities. The wealth created over the millennia through thedomestication and husbandry of plants and animals has powered humansociety.Of all areas of biological innovation, agriculture is the most important,affecting our environment, our health, our economies, and the fabric ofour societies. The world’s poorest nations depend largely on agriculturefor their economic survival as well as their food, fuel and fibre. Thechallenges of innovation to create and sustain productive andenvironmentally sound agriculture are even more pronounced in thesesocieties. Any failure to do so has enormous implications for the globalcommunity, over and above the social, economic, and environmentalimpacts.