Rate My Professor Francesca Grippa

Grippa’s research interests encompass collaborative innovation networks, social network analysis, knowledge management, innovation in organizations, ICT impacts on healthcare teams and business models, social capital, team performance, virtual communities, and inclusive entrepreneurship promoting supplier diversity and community resilience. She has secured major grants as Principal Investigator for the Economic Development Administration’s University Center Project “Reinvigorating Inclusive, Equitable Innovation and Entrepreneurship (IE²) in New England” (2021-2026, $1,019,230) and Co-Principal Investigator for the Kauffman Foundation’s “Promoting supplier diversity in higher education institutions” (2022-2025, $428,883), alongside Northeastern seed grants for the Lab for Inclusive Entrepreneurship ($12,000) and entrepreneurial resilience ($50,000) in 2021-2022. Key publications include co-editing Handbook of Social Computing (Edward Elgar Publishing, forthcoming 2023), Digital Transformation of Collaboration (Springer, 2020), Collaborative Innovation Networks: Latest Insights from Social Innovation, Education, and Emerging Technologies Research (Springer, 2019), and Collaborative Innovation Networks: Building Adaptive and Resilient Organizations (Springer, 2018). Her peer-reviewed articles appear in Journal of Knowledge Management (2022, “Boosting advice and knowledge sharing among healthcare professionals”), Technological Forecasting & Social Change (2020, “The impact of social media presence and board member composition on new venture success”), Tourism Management Perspectives (2020, “Studying the Association of Online Brand Importance with Museum Visitors: an Application of the Semantic Brand Score”), Sustainability (2020, “A Platform for AI-Enabled Real-Time Feedback to Promote Digital Collaboration”), and Management Decision (2018, “Measuring information exchange and brokerage capacity of healthcare teams”). Grippa maintains research affiliations at MIT Media Lab’s Human Dynamics Group and has received fellowships for AI strategy and digital transformation studies.