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| Title: | Science as Social Enterprise: The CAMBIA BiOS Initiative |
| Authors: | Jefferson, Richard |
| Keywords: | eResearch
Open access movement
Patents and Commercialisation - New models |
| Issue Date: | 2008 |
| Publisher: | Sydney University Press |
| Citation: | Fitzgerald, Brian, ed. Legal Framework for E-Research: Realising the Potential. Sydney: Sydney University Press, 2008. |
| 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.
Of all areas of biological innovation, agriculture is the most important,
affecting our environment, our health, our economies, and the fabric of
our societies. The world’s poorest nations depend largely on agriculture
for their economic survival as well as their food, fuel and fibre. The
challenges of innovation to create and sustain productive and
environmentally sound agriculture are even more pronounced in these
societies. Any failure to do so has enormous implications for the global
community, over and above the social, economic, and environmental
impacts. |
| URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/2123/2686 |
| ISBN: | 9781920898939 |
| Appears in Collections: | Legal Framework for E-Research: Realising the Potential
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