GX

GX is an abbreviation for GreenXchange, a project that was originally proposed a collaboration between Nike and Creative Commons to share widely technologies that promote sustainability. The GX project presented at Davos in January 2010.

GX makes use a number of strategies for making technologies available for research and commercial applications:

• a research non-assertion: scientists and researchers working in universities and other non-profit research institutions can take advantage of the Research Non-Assertion to carry out academic non-commercial research;

• a standard model patent license: a simple, streamlined, non-exclusive patent license that can be used to make public offers to license patents;

• know-how and technical disclosures that detail best practices and innovations that are unpatented.