Knownetlab members have been involved in several research projects, both at national and international level. Knownetlab team developed distinctive competencies in proposals preparation, project management and coordination, and in the research activity itself.
The main projects have been funded by European Commission and Italian Ministry for University and Research (MIUR)

We are always looking for potential partners for the creation of new research projects in our areas. Below there is a description of our present and past projects

- HIGH TECH LAZIO
- WEST-EAST ID
- COMMORG
- SOEIS
- COFIN-MIUR 2001
- FIRB 2005-2008 
- PRIN 2007-2008


HIGH-TECH LAZIO,"Competition, cooperation and knowledge flows in the high-tech sectors of Lazio" has been commissioned by FILAS spa (the organization devoted to the development of Lazio regional area) to Scuola di Management - Luiss Guido Carli. The main aim of the project is to address the Lazio Region towards the support for the development of innovation activities in three high-tech sectors: telecommunications, information technology and aerospace. The project applies Social Network Analysis in order to draw the exchange networks and the knowledge networks among firms, especially SMEs.

Project duration: September 2004 - May 2005
Knownetlab involvement: Contractor as Scuola di Management - Luiss Guido Carli

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WEST-EAST ID, "Industrial Districts' Re-location Processes: Identifying Policies in the Perspective of EU Enlargement", is a research project funded by the European Commission under the 5th Framework Programme - Key Action "Improving the Socio-economic Knowledge base".
The overall objective of the project is to supply policy options to support the process of EU enlargement by benchmarking the Western countries' experience of Industrial Districts (IDs). The project will investigate if, and under which conditions, the existence in Eastern areas of a core of companies coming from Western IDs can represent a pivotal nucleus for the development of Eastern IDs.

The main research questions related to the project are:
1. How the different models of Western IDs tend to re-locate/subcontract in Eastern countries? What local conditions lead to the choice of re-location/subcontracting?
2. Which are the structural, social, learning, and integration factors supporting the presence of Western IDs in Eastern regions?
3. Which is the socio-economic impact of Western IDs re-location/subcontracting in Eastern regions?
4. What are the implications of IDs recent re-location process for the existing policies at EU, national and regional level?
5. Which are the policy options suitable for supporting integration of Eastern SMEs into the EU's entrepreneurial fabric?
6. How to build up a suitable context for the development, adjustment and integration of Eastern IDs in the EU?

Project duration: September 2001 - September 2004
Web-site: http://www.west-east-id.net/
Knownetlab involvement: Proposal preparation, partner (as Scuola di Management Luiss Guido Carli)

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COMMORG, "Organizational Consequences of e-mail adoption and diffusion", is a European research project, in the framework of the Information Society Technology (IST) Programme of the European Commission, contract IST-2000-26075. The project aims at analysing the impact of the introduction, adoption and diffusion of e-mail communication on the evolution and change of organisations' structure and processes. It will explain how the adoption of e-mail provides new ways to communicate and co-operate that overcome geographical constraints.
In general terms, the project will provide information about the use of e-mail by individuals and groups within and between organisations that will enable organisations to innovate and be more efficient in their work and businesses. The project findings and policy implications will have the potential to strengthen business co-operation and increase competitiveness in the global market place. The project focuses particularly on:
a. Identifying conditions that enable e-mail to substitute for face-to-face interaction and thus increase the flexibility on both working methods and organisation, freeing them from the constraints imposed by distance and time.
b. Increasing understanding of the requirements by individuals and groups to operate in new organisational environments using new working methods enabled by new communication technologies.
c. Identifying and understanding the complex relationships between contextual conditions and factors surrounding e-mail use that promote the development of trust and confidence within work groups and organisations in communications across traditional functional and organisational boundaries.
d. Developing understanding of the relation of e-mail use to social relationships in the workplace, power relations, organisational participation, and decision-making.
e. Developing new methods to assess and predict the impact of e-mail and practices on organisational activity.
f. Disseminating examples of best work and business practices.

The overall goal is to develop and validate context-sensitive and anticipatory knowledge of the consequences of email adoption and diffusion by organisations and provide knowledge and recommendations relevant to new methods of working using e-mail in the form of practical solutions.

Project duration: May 2001 - October 2003
Web-site: http://www.commorg.net
Knownetlab involvement: proposal preparation, coordinator (as Scuola di Management -Luiss Guido Carli)

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SOEIS "The Self-organization of the European Information Society" was funded by European Commission within Fourth Framework Program TSER.
SOEIS is the acronym of "The self-organisation of the European information society", a research project funded by EU Fourth Framework Programme. It involved six European countries -The Netherlands,
Germany, United Kindgdom, Greece, Switzerland and Italy- and also a contribution from Japan. Its aim was to apply the concepts of second-order sybernetics, and especially of the self-organisation
processes, to different aspects -mainly RTD programmes and expenses- and different levels of European society. These levels were meso -local and regional production systems-, national and European.
An early attempt to describe and explain the structure and evolution of industrial districts in terms of self-organizing systems has been done by Lucio Biggiero, as representative of Italy.

Project duration: 1998 - March 2000
Web-site: http://utopia.duth.gr/~mboudour/soeis/
Knownetlab involvement: proposal preparation, partner (as Dipartimento di Informatica e Sistemistica - Università La Sapienza di Roma)

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COFIN MIUR 2001 "Organization and Management of Information Systems of Virtual Organizations in Digital Marketplaces" (January 2002 - December 2003) funded by Minister of Education, University and Resarch (head of the unit: "Dipartimento di Sistemi e Istituzioni per l'Economia - Università dell'Aquila": Prof. Lucio Biggiero).

The project general aim is to analyzing and assessing Information Systems and organizational structures for the Virtual Organization. Virtual Organizations are networks of independent firms collaborating organically by connecting each others to exploit temporary business opportunities.
The research project in particolar aims to obtain:
1) Individuiation of reference models for Virtual Organizations, and the role of inter and intra-organizational Information Systems;
2) An analysis of existing digital marketplaces and the predictions of their evolution;
3) Analysis of the inter-organizational processes for Virtual Organizations, paying attentino to the social inter-organizational networks.

Project duration: January 2002 - December 2003
Knownetlab involvement: proposal preparation, partner (as Università degli Studi de L'Aquila)

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FIRB 2005-2008 on “Artificial societies for competition and collaboration: knowledge networks, corporate reputation and firm clusters. Building a user-enabling simulator”, as coordinator of the research unit of the University of l’Aquila.

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PRIN 2007-2008 on “Territorial benchmarking: specific tools for the analysis of the performances and the competitiveness of local production systems”, as coordinator of the research unit of the University of l’Aquila.

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