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I am a molecular biologist, social entrepreneur, inventor, open information systems proponent and innovation system strategist. I founded Cambia over 30 years ago, as a means to democratize science-enabled innovation. We work on "Solving the Problem of Problem Solving"™I pioneered Open Science in genetics in the 1980's, and later, the Biological Open Source (BiOS) Initiative, the world's first patent-based commons. 23 years ago, we founded Patent Lens; now its successor The Lens (Lens.org) is the world's largest free, open and secure platform of science and technology knowledge to enable new and different people and institutions to solve critical problems, 'Informed by Evidence, Inspired by Imagination'.We enable Collective Action to address the congruent crises that threaten our society and our ecosystem. This can only happen through connecting actors - globally - both people and institutions. The Lens Collective Action Project builds bridges and removes roadblocks to all innovators.As a scientist, I developed enabling technologies; reporter gene systems (e.g. GUS ), and microbial, plant, biomedical technologies. I did the first field release of a transgenic food crop (1987), and worked extensively in life sciences and agricultural innovation in Asia, Africa & Latin America with the FAO, the CGIAR and the Rockefeller Foundation. My work is guided by the evolution and resilience of complex biological systems, which rely on the diversity and composition of their microbial constituents, a concept I first articulated in 1994 as the 'Hologenome Theory of Evolution'. The implications of Hologenome Theory and its correlated hypotheses, Microbially-Mediated Hormone Modulation, and the Merobiont Hypothesis are many and to me, very helpful in framing points of intervention to make our interaction with the natural world and each other more resilient and respectful.As a fellow of the Schwab Foundation for Social Entrepreneurship, I participate in many World Economic Forum events, including many times as a panelist and speaker at Davos and other meetings of the WEF, and was for four years on the Global Agenda Council for Intellectual Property, and four more on the Global Agenda Council on the Economics of Innovation.Specialties: Social Enterprise, Patent Informatics, Open Science, Climate Change, Open Access, Open Licensing, Innovation Policy, Innovation System Reform, Molecular Biology, Microbiomes, Plant Biotechnology, Agriculture, Global Development, Food Security, Enabling Technology, Complex Biological Systems and the Hologenome.

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