Open source green energy gets Gates Foundation blessing - Biotechnology, Cambia, Energy Open Source, open source - Techworld

"[T]he Gates Foundation is turning its attention to patent search and...green energy research, only this time the development model will be open source, not proprietary. A group of international scientists headed by Australian Richard Jefferson is establishing the framework for a biofuels industry built on open source software and standards-based tools. Jefferson is CEO of Cambia, a non-profit institute dedicated to creating new technologies to promote change and enable innovation and is the director of the new Initiative for Open Innovation (IOI, www.openinnovation.org). Cambia has also helped establish Patent Lens, a free global, open-access, full-text patent informatics resource, which Jefferson says is essential to creating a new open source biofuels industry."