Academic Work in 1970s

Century of Endeavour

Academic Publication in the 1970s

(c) Roy Johnston 2005

JJ died in 1972 after having seen his Berkeley book in print. I made some attempt to help him promote it, but it seems to have missed out on the wave of Berkeley scholarship which emerged shortly after, and I was not enough networked into that world to exert any influence. He had submitted it for the degree of D Litt, and the processing of this was somewhat slow, so he wrote a document which I think he may have used to expedite the process. This came into my possession only in November 2009, so I am making it available via the 'add-ons' folder; he called it 'Professor Johnston's Apologia pro Vita Sua'

Insofar as I was looking in the academic publication direction from 1971 onwards, it would have been in the analysis of the cultural aspects of the innovation process, as background to where I was working hands-on with the TCD Applied Research Consultancy Group. This in itself was not an environment conducive to the production of academic analysis, but from here on I contribute in this stream some attempts I made to get academic recognition for the history of science and technology in the specific Irish cultural context.

Most of this work was done in the 80s and 90s, but if I find any seminal material relevant to this theme it will find a home here, perhaps cross-linked to the socio-technical or techno-economic threads.

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