About the Author

Janet Hope has published in the fields of constitutional, criminal, administrative, environmental, human rights, intellectual property law, and biotechnology regulation. She is a member of Australian National University’s Centre for Governance of Knowledge and Development.

Reviews

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.
*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*