I am an Associate Dean for Global Programs and Research at St. John’s University, College of Professional Studies where I also teach courses on Entrepreneurship, Innovation, and Creativity. Before moving to St Johns’ I have served as an Associate Professor at the Department of Industrial Engineering, University of Naples Federico II, and as Visiting Research Professor at the School of Systems and Enterprises, Stevens Institute of Technology (USA), where I still teach as an adjunct professor.I was a Fulbright Visiting Scholar at the Center for Collective Intelligence of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. I have published over one hundred papers on the analysis of collaborative dynamics in firms, online and offline networks and industrial districts through the use of computational methodologies, serving as a member of the editorial board of several academic Journals.My current research focus is on how online interaction and collaboration might be leveraged to help groups, organizations, communities, and companies to aggregate and store dispersed knowledge, to increase creativity, innovation and problem solving, and to support large-scale, collective intelligence.I have served as President of the European Council for Small Business and entrepreneurship (ECSB) from 2011 to 2013 and as President of the International Council for Small Business (ICSB) for the 2016-17 term. MSE in Electronic Engineering at the University of Naples Federico II magna cum laude.PhD in Engineering Management, University of Rome Tor Vergata Specialties: Research areasa) Distributed cognition & learning, online collaboration & collective intelligence;b) Technology transfer & innovation management with focus on small innovative firms, entrepreneurship and academic spin-offsc) Inter-organizational networks and social computing