Science as Social Enterprise: The CAMBIA BiOS Initiative

Richard Jefferson
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Richard Jefferson: Richard Jefferson is the founder and CEO of CAMBIA-BiOS. He earned his Ph.D. at the University of Colorado, Boulder. In 1989 he joined the Food and Agriculture Organization as their first senior staff Molecular Biologist. He left the UN System in 1991 in order to establish CAMBIA as an autonomous private research and development institute. Richard was chosen as an Outstanding Social Entrepreneur by the Schwab Foundation. In December 2003 he was named by Scientific American to the List of World's 50 most influential technologists, and cited as the World Research Leader for 2003 for Economic Development. He was nominated as a finalist for Wired Magazine's Rave Awards for Scientist of the Year for 2005, and received the American Society of Plant Biologists (ASPB) "Leadership in Science Public Service Award" in July 2005.

Innovations: Technology, Governance, Globalization, 2006, vol. 1, issue 4, 13-44

Date: 2006
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