Special issue: Scientific academies and scientific societies

International Journal of Technology Management 46(1/2) 2009

• Scientific academies and scientific societies have come of age
• How national science academies in developed countries can assist development in sub-Saharan Africa
• The Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters: current revival of a time-honoured institution
• Role of scientific academies and scientific societies in promoting science and technology: experiences from Singapore
• Still digging, still planting: the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences – knowledge yesterday, knowledge today and knowledge for tomorrow
• When less is more but still not enough: managing academies of science in a globalised world
• The Pacific Science Association: more than eight decades of science in and of the Pacific
• The role of an academy of sciences and humanities
• Adapting to the future: the role of science academies in capacity building
• From a learned society to a 21st-century science broker: the Swiss Academy of Sciences as a partner in the dialogue with society
• Scientific academies and scientific societies as agents for promoting science culture in developing countries
• Communicating the public understanding of science: the Royal Society website
• G.W. Leibniz and scientific societies
• On the decline of scientific societies