Graham Dutfield is professor of international governance at Leeds, research affiliate of the Intellectual Property Law and Technology Program at York University, Toronto, and adjunct professor at the Center for Studies of Intellectual Property Rights at Zhongnan University of Economics and Law,...

<italic>One of the most influential contributions to the fields of science policy research and science and technology studies during the last 20 years was</italic> The New Production of Knowledge <italic>by Gibbons et al. (Gibbons, M., Limoges, C., Nowotny, H., Schwartzman, S., Scott, P. and Trow, M. (1994) The New...</italic>

George Church is a professor at Harvard University and founder of the personal genome project. He has patents in the fields of genome reading and writing, automation and instrumentation, and advocates open source and transparency; for example, by developing the open access next generation...

Tim Kastelle is a senior lecturer in innovation management at University of Queensland Business School (UQBS). He is managing editor of Innovation: <italic>Management</italic>, <italic>Policy & Practice</italic>, the leader of the UQBS executive education and MBA innovation programs, and does research and consulting on the topic...

In November 2009, at Noors Slott in Sweden, a small group of distinguished individuals from academia and government met to reflect on the ideas developed in the New Production of Knowledge (Gibbons <italic>et al</italic>., 1994) and Re-thinking Science (Nowotny <italic>et al</italic>., 2001). The aim was less to determine the...

Professor Huanming Yang is co-founder and president of BGI Shenzhen (formally the Beijing Institute of Genomics). BGI made China’s contribution to the human genome project. From 1% of the human genome project, it is now a key player in many of the world’s megasequencing projects. Professor...

Margaret McCartney is both a general practitioner and a freelance journalist.