Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences
L.A. Leydesdorff
prof.dr. L.A. (Loet) Leydesdorff
Afdeling Communicatiewetenschap University of Amsterdam


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1012 CX Amsterdam

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Loet Leydesdorff (Ph.D. Sociology, M.A. Philosophy, and M.Sc. Biochemistry) is Professor in the Dynamics of Scientific Communication and Technological Innovation at the Amsterdam School of Communications Research (ASCoR) of the University of Amsterdam . He is Visiting Professor of the Institute of Scientific and Technical Information of China (ISTIC) in Beijing, and Honorary Fellow of SPRU – the Science and Technology Policy Research Unit of the University of Sussex .

Leydesdorff has published extensively in systems theory, social network analysis, scientometrics, and the sociology of innovation (see for a list of publications at http://www.leydesdorff.net/list.htm ).In 2006, he published The Knowledge-Based Economy: Modeled, Measured, Simulated ( Boca Rotan , FL : Universal Publishers). Previous monographs are: A Sociological Theory of Communication: The Self-Organization of the Knowledge-Based Society (2001) and The Challenge of Scientometrics: The development, measurement, and self-organization of scientific communications (1995).

With Henry Etzkowitz, he initiated a series of workshops, conferences, and special issues about the Triple Helix of University-Industry-Government Relations . He received the Derek de Solla Price Award for Scientometrics and Informetrics in 2003 and held “The City of Lausanne ” Honor Chair at the School of Economics , Université de Lausanne, in 2005.In 2007, he was Vice-President of Computing Anticipatory Systems (CASYS'07).

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