Author: Janet Hope
Publisher: Harvard University Pre
Keywords: biotechnology, revolution, source, open, biobazaar
Number of Pages: 448
Published: 2008-01-31
List price: $27.95
ISBN-10: 0674026357
ISBN-13: 9780674026353

Fighting disease, combating hunger, preserving the balance of life on Earth: the future of biotechnological innovation may well be the future of our planet itself. And yet the vexed state of intellectual property law--a proliferation of ever more complex rights governing research and development--is complicating this future. At a similar point in the development of information technology, "open source" software revolutionized the field, simultaneously encouraging innovation and transforming markets. The question that Janet Hope explores in Biobazaar is: can the open source approach do for bio