Luca Iandoli

Associate Professor of Engineering Economy and Innovation management, School of Engineering, University of Naples Federico II (Italy)

President of the European Council for Small Business and Entrepreneurship (ECSB)

Fulbright Research Visitor at the Center for Collective Intelligence, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Visiting professor at the International Doctorate in Entrepreneurship and Management, Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona (Spain) and at the Stevens Institute of Technology (Hoboken, USA)

Research

My research activities can be positioned at the interface between Technology, Business and Society. The fundamental quest that I believe underlies most of my research work can be described with a single question: how can we design better socio-technical systems in a way that individual action can be aggregated so that the collective system behave in an intelligent way?

More recently, I have been working intensively to investigate if and how online technologies can be used to do more than "just" sharing information. Can we do a better job in leveraging online interaction to help groups, organizations and communities to aggregate and store dispersed knowledge into a distributed and reusable memory? Can learning and innovation be enhanced by the availability of such a memory?

I apply my research work to organizations and business networks in field including collective learning, group probelm solving and decision making, and distributed innovation