The History of Science programme of the Maison Française is directed by a Franco-British committee bringing together specialists and representatives of French and British research in the history of science, techniques and innovation. In Oxford, the project works in conjunction with the Faculty of History, the Wellcome Unit of History of Medicine, the Museum of History of Science, the Centre for Health, Medicine and Society: Past and Present of Oxford Brookes University.
The globalization of exchanges and the growth of international competition have brought innovation, and indeed research, into an increasingly central position within our societies. These phenomena increasingly concern political figures at every level as well as entrepreneurs, the world of business as well as the academic sphere. We are thus witnessing a rearrangement of the organisation and institutional forms in which they develop.Â
Jim Bennett, Museum of the History of Science, Oxford
jim.bennett@mhs.ox.ac.uk
Jeanne Peiffer, Directrice, Centre Alexandre Koyré
peiffer@damesme.cnrs.fr
Harold Cook, Wellcome Trust for the History of Medicine, University College  London
h.cook@ucl.ac.uk
Pietro Corsi, Linacre College, Oxford
pietro.corsi@history.ox.ac.uk
Robert Fox, Modern History Faculty, OxfordÂ
robert.fox@history.ox.ac.uk