Professional and Academic Focus
I’ve delved into diverse knowledge areas throughout my professional career, shaping my perspective. Below, I outline key areas that have captured my attention, with references to my own contributions where relevant.
Academia-Industry Collaboration (AIC)
⚡️ Building bridges to increase the impact of ideas 🎓🤝 💼
The transfer of knowledge between academic and business organizations to promote innovation is the main subject I have been working on for the last 5 or 6 years. So far it has been a process which involved navigating multiple perspectives, continuously increasing in its complexity.
My PhD Thesis, titled “Understanding Knowledge Dynamics Across Modes of Academia-Industry Collaboration: A Comprehensive Mixed-Method Analysis within the I-Space Framework: Lessons from San Carlos de Bariloche, Argentina”, represent the last and most profound stage of this process.
Knowledge Management and Organizational Learning
🏘 Designing strategies for the collective production of knowledge 📦
A critical topic I studied for my doctorate and which I now implement in my day to day.
- It is worth mentioning the theoretical framework developed by Boisot (1995) for understanding information and knowledge flows in social settings: the Information Space or I-Space. In my blog, I am now trying to synthesize and use this framework to analyze the conjuncture.
Economics, Institutions, and Culture
💼 Exploring the socio-cultural foundations of economic and human behavior 📖
How culture and institutional arrangements define the management of resources, information, and knowledge?
Besides exploring Academia-Industry Collaborations, with another classmate of the master we made an analysis of hackerspace and makerspaces based on Ostrom’s (1990) idea of commons.
Beyond my limited contribution to the subject, a few approaches worth mentioning are innovation systems (Cooke 2001; Etzkowitz and Leydesdorff 2000; Lundvall 1988; Nelson and Rosenberg 1993), open innovation (Chesbrough 2003; Von Hippel 2005), commons (Allen and Potts 2016; Hess and Ostrom 2007; Kostakis, Niaros, and Giotitsas 2015; Ostrom 1990), and information economics (Boisot 1998).
Platforms and Digitalization
🗂 Navigating the Digital Age 📊
The continuous proliferation of information and communication technologies (ICTs) has a strong impact on the production of knowledge and information.
With my PhD supervisor we’ve broadly explored the foundations of digital platforms and their classification.
I’m particularly drawn to theoretical perspectives like Gawer (2020). I believe understanding how these platforms are reshaping economic and social interactions is fundamental.
Graph Theory and Network Analysis
🌐 Unraveling relationships beyond the actors 🔗
Representing complexity as interconnected and interdependent systems, considering both nodes and the links that connect them (Börner, Sanyal, and Vespignani 2007; M. S. Granovetter 1973; M. Granovetter 1983; Newman 2018).
- I have worked with bibliometric databases and survey data to analyze collaboration processes among researchers and between academic and business stakeholders. Here you can see my presentation “Scientific Collaboration through Institutional Networks: The Value of National Partners” at the NetSci 2021 conference.
Philosophy: Pragmatism, Enactivism, Education, Psychology
🧠 Philosophy in action 📜
I have explored pragmatism and enactivists approaches (e.g., Dewey 1923; Varela, Thompson, and Rosch 2017), as well as their application in fields like education and psychology (e.g., Bereiter and Scardamalia 2014; Kress 2009; Scardamalia and Bereiter 2010).
- As part of my undergraduate thesis and as a research fellow at CIECE, I researched how economic models typically fail to successfully represent complexity.
Complexity Theory and Information Theory
🧩 Exploring the complexity of phenomena 📚
Enthusiasm for emergent properties, entropy (Ben-Naim 2008), the groundbreaking work of Claude Shannon (1949), and subsequent studies in various knowledge areas (e.g., Boisot and Canals 2004; Gleick 2011; Snowden 2002; Polyanskiy and Wu 2022). I recently participated in an interesting course on complex networks.
Zettelkasten
🗂 Creative organization 🤯
The Zettelkasten technique as a source of idea generation and thought organization (Ahrens 2022).
Languages
🗣 Connecting through language 🌎
My passion for understanding cultural differences and communication patterns has inevitably led me to learn languages. In addition to my fluency in Spanish, English, Italian, and active study of Catalan, I can communicate in French. I would love to continue learning other languages.