Loet Leydesdorff

Louis André (Loet) Leydesdorff (born 21 August 1948 in Djakarta (Dutch Indies) is a Dutch sociologist, cyberneticist and Professor in the Dynamics of Scientific Communication and Technological Innovation at the University of Amsterdam. He is known for his work in the sociology of communication and innovation, especially for his Triple helix model of innovation developed with Henry Etzkowitz in the 1990s.

Biography

Leydesdorff was born in 1948 in Djakarta in the Dutch Indies. He received a B.Sc. in chemistry in 1969, a M.Sc. biochemistry in 1973, and an M.A. in philosophy in 1977. In 1984 he obtained his Ph.D. in sociology at the University of Amsterdam.

In 1969 Leydesdorff started working as part-time professor for chemical technology at the Gerrit Rietveld Academie in Amsterdam. In 1972 he started his career at the University of Amsterdam as teaching assistant for "Science and Society" at the Philosophy Faculty. In 1980 he became Senior lecturer at the Department of Science & Technology Dynamics of the University of Amsterdam and since 2000 the Amsterdam School of Communications Research as well.

Leydesdorff is on the editorial boards of several journals since 1987. He was on the editorial boards of ''Scientometrics'' since 1987, '' Social Science Information,'' since 1994, ''Industry and Higher Education'' since 1997, ''Cybermetrics'' since 1997, the ''Journal of Technology Transfer'' since 1999, the ''TripleC: e-journal for cognition • communication • co-operation'' since 2002, the ''Science & Public Policy'' since 2004, ''Science Forum'' since 2005, ''Informetrics'' since 2006, and the ''International Journal of Applied Systemic Studies'' since 2006. He further worked for the ''Enterprise and Innovation Management Studies'' journal 1999-2001, for ''Science, Technology and Society'' in 2001-02 and for the ''Journal of the International Society for Scientometrics and Informetrics'' from 1995 to 1998. As contributing editor he also worked for ''Science, Technology, & Human Values'' 1988-1990 and for ''Science & Technology Studies'' 1987-1988.

He received the Derek de Solla Price Memorial Medal for scientometrics in 2003. Since 2006 he has been Honorary Research Fellow at the Virtual Knowledge Studio of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences. And since 2007 Honorary Fellow of SPRU – Science and Technology Policy Research of the University of Sussex. Currently he is president of the Dutch Systems Group society, the society that cofounded the International Federation for Systems Research in the begin of the 1980s.

Work

Leydesdorff's research interests are in the fields of the philosophy of science, social network analysis, scientometrics, and the sociology of innovation. His studies in communication in science, technology, and innovation enabled him to specify theory and methods for understanding the dynamics of knowledge-based development.

Selected publications

Leydesdorff has published extensively in fields of systems theory, social network analysis, scientometrics, and the sociology of innovation. Books:
* 1987. ''The Social Direction of the Public Sciences: Causes and Consequences of Cooperation Between Scientists and Non-Scientific Groups''. With Stuart Blume, Joske Bunders and Richard P. Whitley. Sociology of the Sciences Yearbook, Springer.
* 1994. ''Evolutionary Economics and Chaos Theory: New Directions in Technology Studies''. With Peter Van Den Besselaar. Palgrave Macmillan.
* 2001. ''The Challenge of Scientometrics: the development, measurement, and self-organization of scientific communications'', Universal Publishers
* 2001. ''A Sociological Theory of Communication: The Self-Organization of the Knowledge-Based Society''. Universal Publishers/ uPublish.com.Universal Publishers :: Bookstore
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* 2005. ''Universities And The Global Knowledge Economy: A Triple Helix Of University-Industry-Government Relations''. With Henry Etzkowitz. Continuum International Publishing Group.
* 2006. ''The Knowledge-Based Economy: Modeled, Measured, Simulated''. Universal Publishers.

Articles, a selection:
* 1994. "The Evolution of Communication Systems". In: ''Int. J. Systems Research and Information Science'' Vol 6, pp. 219–30.
* 2001. "The dynamics of innovation: from National Systems and ‘‘Mode 2’’ to a Triple Helix of university–industry–government relations". With Henry Etzkowitz. In: ''Research Policy'', vol 29, pp 109–123.
* 2005

With Caroline S. Wagner.
* 2006. "Regional Development in the Knowledge-Based Economy: The Construction of Advantage". With Phil Cooke. In: ''Journal of Technology Transfer''. Special Issue, pp. 1–15.

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1948 births
Living people
Cyberneticists
Dutch sociologists
Systems scientists
People from Jakarta
University of Amsterdam alumni
University of Amsterdam faculty