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Biobazaar

The Open Source Revolution and Biotechnology
  • Janet Hope
Language: English
Published/Copyright: 2008
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Hope offers the first sustained and systematic inquiry into the application of open source principles to life sciences. Traversing disciplinary boundaries, she presents an analysis of intellectual property-related challenges confronting the biotechnology industry and paints a detailed picture of “open source biotechnology” as a possible solution.

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Are we on the verge of an open source revolution? If not a revolution, surely a growing rebellion. Hope gives us food for thought on the possibilities.
-- James Love New Scientist

[A] rigorous, closely reasoned book. Referencing Thomas Kuhn’s groundbreaking volume, The Structure of Scientific Revolutions, Hope takes a hard look at intellectual property law, which currently protects monopolistic corporations’ right to inflate prices for ‘life-saving drugs or life-sustaining new crops.’ Sensing ‘a paradigm shift in the values underpinning life sciences research,’ Hope seeks to readdress these policies by applying the model of open-source software to the biotech field.
-- Publishers Weekly

Biobazaar is the first book dedicated to studying current efforts at open biological innovation. It is a well-researched and thoughtful analysis of the great potential that such innovation holds for improving the ways we address some of our most basic human needs.
-- Yochai Benkler, author of The Wealth of Networks

Can an open-source–style economy in life sciences change the landscape of innovation, and for the better? Hope provides a much-needed, reasoned guide to thinking through that critical question.
-- Steven Weber, author of The Success of Open Source


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