Tommaso Buganza is Associate Professor of Leadership and Innovation at the School of Management of Politecnico di Milano where he also is co-founder of LEADIN'Lab, the Laboratory for Leadership, Design and Innovation. He is a lecturer in Innovation Management and Project Management, responsible for the Project Management Academy and coordinator of the innovation and training area at MIP. He is a member of the Board of the International Product Development Management Conference EIASM-IPDMC. His research activity explores the intersection between technological innovation and leadership and has been published in peer-reviewed journals and in a number of books.
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His primary research fields lies at the intersection between Leadership, Design and Innovation. In particular, he focuses on the Engagement mechanisms in Innovation Activities (mainly focusing on the individual dimension in the innovation process) and on the Technological side of Innovation (mainly focusing on the opportunities unveiled by digital technologies, enabling platform and data-related business models). Furthermore, he focuses also on Project Management as a discipline to foster innovation, studying in particular the role of flexibility.