COPYRIGHT; Contents; Figures; Tables; Acknowledgements; 1. Making knowledge public and private; 2. The data explosion: the emergence of a new form of bio-knowledge; 3. Tools of the trade -- trade of the tools; 4. Collaboration and competition: the dynamics of a genome race; 5. Evolving economies of knowledge; Appendix: list of interviewees; Bibliography; Index.
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Presents an analytical framework for understanding the shifting 'great divide' in capitalist economies of knowledge. This book focuses on economies of knowledge, and seeks to demonstrate that capitalism is multi-modal at its core, with interdependent growth of market and non-market modes of production, distribution, exchange and use.