Being a Rotary Ambassadorial Scholar

Who am I and What am I doing?

I am currently a visting fellow at the Program on Networked Governance at Harvard University. I am working on my dissertation on social networks and technological innovation. Particulary, I am interested into the individual level mechanisms of innovation, which means that I study informations sharing and knowledge creation processes among individuals in organizations (e.g., firms, public sector organizations, online communities etc.).

I will get my degree from Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne Switzerland (EPFL). I am working a the College of Management of Technology for Professor Christopher Tucci, who is director of the Chair for Corporate Strategy and Innovation.

Besides being a doctoral student at EPFL and Harvard University, I am also an Ambassadorial Scholar of the Rotary Foundation. Rotary is a global network of volunteers, who dedicate their free time and part of their energy to promote world peace and understanding. My sponsor club is the Rotary Club Erding in Germany and my host club here in the US is the Rotary Club of Amesbury here.

At the moment I am working on a paper about the effects of social network structure on information sharing and knowledge management in intrafirm networks. I am also preparing an online social network survey, which I will launch very soon on the newschoolers.com website. I summarize my research results on my personal website, which is www.technological-innovation.com. I am also an active blogger at the KSG PNG blog.

posted by Thomas Langenberg @ 5:04 AM