Collaborative Innovation Networks: Building Adaptive and Resilient Organizations (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9783319742946)

Francesca Grippa is an Associate Teaching Professor and Faculty Lead in the Bachelor of Science in Management at Northeastern University, where she teaches graduate and undergraduate courses in entrepreneurship, business strategy and international business. Dr Grippa also collaborates with researchers at the MIT Center for Collective Intelligence on topics related to Collaborative Innovation Networks.
João Leitão is an Assistant Professor at the University of Beira Interior (UBI), Portugal, teaching entrepreneurship and economics to undergraduate and graduate students. He is also an Associate Researcher of the CEG-IST, University of Lisbon, Portugal and Professor vinculado at the Instituto Multidisciplinar de Empresa, Universidad de Salamanca, Spain. He is co-author of fourteen books covering topics on entrepreneurship, innovation and technological change.
Julia Gluesing is the President of Cultural Connections, Inc., a research, consulting, and education firm supporting global networked organizations. She is also a business and organizational anthropologist and Research Professor in Industrial and Systems Engineering at Wayne State University, where she teaches global perspectives in engineering management, global leadership, and qualitative research methods course in the Global Executive Track Ph.D.
Ken Riopelle is a Research Professor in the Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering at Wayne State University, Detroit Michigan. Dr. Riopelle's professional career spans over 40 years in both the auto industry and academia.
Peter A. Gloor is a Research Scientist at the Center for Collective Intelligence at MIT's Sloan School of Management where he leads a project exploring Collaborative Innovation Networks. He is also Founder and Chief Creative Officer of social network software company GalaxyAdvisors. In addition Peter is a Honorary Professor at University of Cologne, a Honorary Professor at Jilin University Changchun, and Distinguished Visiting Professor at P. Universidad Católica de Chile. Previously, Peter was a Partner with Deloitte Consulting, leading its e-Business practice for Europe, a Partner with PricewaterhouseCoopers and the section leader for software engineering at UBS. Peter has written 9 books, most recently "Swarm Creativity: Competitive Advantage through Collaborative Innovation Networks" (Oxford University Press, 2005), "Coolhunting: Chasing Down the Next Big Thing" (with Scott Cooper) (AMACOM, 2007), and "Coolfarming: Turn Your Great Idea into the Next Big Thing", (AMACOM 2010). His two new books "Swarmleadership" and "Sociometrics" (Emerald, 2017).