Hi all, i haven't been in this thread for a while, so apologies for the lack of contributions. In response to Dan, I think new platforms are being utilized for DIYbio-related discussions. Facebook, Reddit, Discords, I imagine there are more groups. I guess that's "decentralized" for you! Still, it's awesome to come back and see this Google group still ticking along and it was great to read all your thoughts.
I know from my perspective here in Melbourne Aus, there is a huge appetite for DIYbio in the wake of COVID due to a reduction in the number of hands-on training opportunities for students during our lockdowns.
Love the previously mentioned, DITbio, people rarely showed up to just be on their own at our lab.
For context of what i'm going to talk about, i was inspired to help start BioQ here in Aus in 2015 (www.bioq.org.au, very much inspired by BioCurious) under a charity structure. From that lab, we saw various needs in our ecosystem and started a science equipment recycling program in 2018 (another charity), and then a biotech CoWorking space called CoLabs Aus in 2020 (finally learned and started a company/social enterprise).
BioQ was difficult to run but the community was/is amazing. I didn't have any experience helping run a business, managing revenue, volunteers, projects, and grants, all while living on minimum wage, but i think that was/is par for the course in this space. In the end, i got enough exp doing that to help start CoLabs and learned A LOT about various fields.
There is absolutely a challenge with where VCs look at something that is coming out of shared lab spaces like a DIYbio/Community Lab and ask if the IP has been protected, does it have market fit, so on. I've been wondering about this for a while, and i'm exploring this with some IP lawyer friends.
Is there a framework/commons that could be the best of both worlds? Support both open access and commercialization at the same time taking into account the needs of those involved?
Generally, VCs are happy enough if they see everyone in the space has signed NDAs and consideration has been given to controlled access.
On Tuesday, January 23, 2024 at 6:26:51 AM UTC+11 dank...@gmail.com wrote:
Noted :
" Reading two books recently: "Open-source lab" by Joshua Pearce and
"Building open source hardware" by Alicia Gibb"I read the entries to "Dead or what" pretty carefully and didn't really light up with any specific conjectures except maybe to read / get / etc the books above...
Maybe there are some good animals extinct just the right amount and aren't taken yet by Harvard ?
You would think pollution abatement might work to getting investments ? Chem companies; like BASF, etc.
Of course, most Bio projects fail horribly. That's a pretty basic fact, there...
Regs to All,Dan
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