Invisible College

Invisible College is a term used to describe a non public network of researchers operating in an informal way. Originally used to describe the early association of the Enlightenment-era Royal Society of London, which consisted of a number of natural philosophers such as Robert Boyle and Christopher Wren, the term has been of considerable interest to scholars since the 1960s with the research of Derek Price and Donald Beaver. Research on this topic has focused closely on law schools and the sciences.