ABSTRACT
Loet Leydesdorff, professor emeritus at the University of Amsterdam, passed away on March 11, 2023, not long before the celebration of ASCoR’s 25th anniversary. He joined the Department of Communication Science in 2000 and retired in 2013. As holder of the chair in Communication and Innovation in the Dynamics of Science and Technology, he represented a research programme that is rather unique within ASCoR and, more generally, within communication science. It represents a sociological approach towards communication, linking communication to meaning and innovation. In honour of Loet’s memory and as a tribute to the richness of his approach and its relevance to communication science as a discipline, we briefly sketch his thinking, research programme, and impact.
