BiOS ['baI os] noun 1.(from Greek,βiος) life; 2.(acronym) Biological Innovation for Open Society; 3.(acronym) Biological Open Source; 4. Biological Innovation through Open Science; 5. Biologial Input / Output System; 6. Biological Operating Systems; 7. an initiative of CAMBIA.

BiOS is a response to inequities in food security, nutrition, health, natural resource management and energy. Our goal is to democratise problem solving to enable diverse solutions through decentralised innovation.

Open Source

We promote an innovation paradigm that focuses on a distinction between the tools of innovation and the products. We promote licenses that couple rights with responsibilities to foster efficient development, improvement, sharing and use of technology.

Open Science

We create and share new biological enabling technologies and platforms that can be used to deliver innovations. We develop new licensing and distributive collaboration mechanisms that have resonance with the open source software movement, but are tailored for biological innovation.

Open Society

We enhance the transparency, accessibility and capability to use all the tools of science, whether patented, open access or public domain.

CAMBIA, BiOS and Patent Lens in the News

Cambia is named to the list of World's Top 100 NGOs by The Global Journal

The Global Journal, USA
January 12, 2012
From the hundreds of thousands of Non-governmental organizations in the world, the Global Journal has selected the Top 100 based on impact, innovation, transparency, accountability and efficiency.

Q&A with Richard Jefferson - Stanford Social Innovation Review

Stanford Social Innovation Review, USA
February 14, 2011
Richard Jefferson believes that biotechnology can be used to benefit the poor and disenfranchised, but only if the R&D process is democratized so that everyone has access to critical scientific tools and technologies.