Christopher Tucci

Full Professor
christopher.tucci@epfl.ch +41 21 693 00 23 http://csi.epfl.ch
Citizenship : USA / Italia
EPFL CDM MTEI CSI
ODY 1 04 (Odyssea)
Station 5
CH-1015 Lausanne
+41 21 693 01 21
Web site: https://www.epfl.ch/labs/csi/
Unit: CSI
Office: ODY 1 04
EPFL CDM MTEI-GE
ODY 1 04 (Odyssea)
Station 5
CH-1015 Lausanne
Fields of expertise
- Crowdsourcing / IoT / digitalization and innovation
- Innovation Management
- International technology alliances
- Technology policy
- Regulation of the future (IT, fintech, …)
- Internet strategy of entrants and incumbents
- Technology strategy
- Technological entry, product development, and "creative destruction"
- Design thinking
- Entrepreneurship and corporate venture capital
- Corporate governance and innovation
Biography
Christopher L. Tucci is Professor of Management of Technology at the Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), where he holds the Chair in Corporate Strategy & Innovation. He is Visiting Thought Leader at CEIBS in Shangai, China. He received the degrees of Ph.D. in Management from the Sloan School of Management, MIT; SM (Technology & Policy) from MIT; and BS (Mathematical Sciences), AB (Music), and MS (Computer Science) from Stanford University. He was an industrial computer scientist involved in developing Internet protocols and applying artificial intelligence tools. Professor Tucci joined EPFL in 2003 where he teaches courses in Design Thinking, Digital Strategy, and Innovation Management. His primary area of interest is in how firms make transitions to new business models, technologies, and organizational forms. He also studies crowdsourcing, Internetworking, and digital innovations. He has published articles in, among others, Academy of Management Review (AMR), SMJ, Management Science, Research Policy, Communications of the ACM, SEJ, Academy of Management Annals, and JPIM. His article with Allan Afuah, “Crowdsourcing as solution to distant search,” won the Best Paper of 2012 for AMR. He is currently an Associate Editor of Academy of Management Discoveries. He has served in leadership positions in the Academy of Management (AOM) and the Strategic Management Society.
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