"Contributors" [2013] ELECD 945; in Arapostathis, Stathis; Dutfield, Graham (eds), "Knowledge Management and Intellectual Property" (Edward Elgar Publishing, 2013) viii

Book Title: Knowledge Management and Intellectual Property

Editor(s): Arapostathis, Stathis; Dutfield, Graham

Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing

ISBN (hard cover): 9780857934383

Section Title: Contributors

Number of pages: 5

Extract:

Contributors
Stathis Arapostathis is Lecturer in the History of Science and Technology
in the University of Athens, Greece. His research interests are in the history
of technology, history and sociology of techno-scientific expertise, history
of intellectual property in science and technology and history and policy of
energy transitions. Previously, he worked on history and STS projects in the
Universities of Leeds, Edinburgh and Cardiff. He recently co-authored
(with Graeme Gooday) the book Patently Contestable: Electrical Tech-
nologies and Inventor Identities in Britain (MIT Press, 2013).
Henk van den Belt studied sociology at the University of Groningen and
teaches philosophy and ethics at Wageningen University, The Netherlands.
His interests include science and technology studies (STS), consumer and
food ethics and the ethics of intellectual property in the modern life
sciences. He has published on social constructivism, patent disputes in the
synthetic dye industry, the work of Ludwik Fleck, the justification of the
precautionary principle, biotechnology, synthetic biology and biofuels.
Elizabeth Bruton is currently a PhD student at the Centre for the History
and Philosophy of Science at the University of Leeds. Her thesis, `Beyond
Marconi: the roles of the Admiralty, the Post Office, and the Institution of
Electrical Engineers in the invention and development of wireless commu-
nication up to 1908', explores the roles of state and technical institutions in
the early history of British wireless communications, their technological
innovations and their influence on the activities of the Marconi Company.
Her research interests include telecommunications history, military history,
electrical ...