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Sweden
2026
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Business and Management
Italy
2024

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D-Index
50
Citations
15375
World Ranking
975
National Ranking
9

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Business and Management in Sweden Leader Award
  • 2024 - Research.com Business and Management in Italy Leader Award
  • 2023 - Research.com Business and Management in Italy Leader Award
  • 2022 - Research.com Business and Management in Italy Leader Award

Overview

Roberto Verganti is affiliated with the Polytechnic University of Milan in Italy and has a significant body of work in the fields of Business, Management and Accounting. Their research primarily focuses on Strategy and Management, Mechanical Engineering, Marketing, Experimental and Cognitive Psychology, and Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management.

The main topics covered in their research include Innovation and Knowledge Management, Design Education and Practice, Creativity in Education and Neuroscience, Service and Product Innovation, Open Source Software Innovations, Complex Systems and Decision Making, as well as Management and Organizational Studies.

Verganti has published extensively, with several papers appearing in respected journals. Some recent publications include:

  • Innovation and Design in the Age of Artificial Intelligence, 2020, Journal of Product Innovation Management
  • Design thinking: Critical analysis and future evolution, 2021, Journal of Product Innovation Management

Other notable papers related to the broader field of design and innovation, with some coauthored by colleagues frequently collaborating with Verganti, include:

  • Four kinds of design thinking: From ideating to making, engaging, and criticizing, 2020, Creativity and Innovation Management
  • The Open Innovation in Science research field: a collaborative conceptualisation approach, 2020, Industry and Innovation
  • Framing the multifaceted nature of design thinking in addressing different innovation purposes, 2021, Long Range Planning

Frequent coauthors of Verganti include:

  • Paola Bellis (11 joint works)
  • Claudio Dell'Era (10 joint works)
  • Daniel Trabucchi (8 joint works)
  • Tommaso Buganza (7 joint works)
  • Stefano Magistretti (6 joint works)

Verganti's publications often appear in journals such as the Journal of Knowledge Management, Creativity and Innovation Management, European Journal of Innovation Management, Innovation, and the Journal of Product Innovation Management. These venues reflect a cross-disciplinary approach integrating aspects of design, innovation processes, and management.

Best Publications

  • Design Driven Innovation: Changing the Rules of Competition by Radically Innovating What Things Mean

    Roberto Verganti

  • Incremental and Radical Innovation: Design Research vs. Technology and Meaning Change

    Donald A. Norman;Roberto Verganti

  • Design, Meanings, and Radical Innovation: A Metamodel and a Research Agenda*

    Roberto Verganti

  • Which Kind of Collaboration Is Right for You

    Gary P. Pisano;Roberto Verganti

  • Developing Products on Internet Time: The Anatomy of a Flexible Development Process

    Alan MacCormack;Roberto Verganti;Marco Iansiti

  • Innovation and Design in the Age of Artificial Intelligence

    Roberto Verganti;Luca Vendraminelli;Marco Iansiti

  • Managing "green" product innovation in small firms

    Giuliano Noci;Roberto Verganti

  • Design-inspired Innovation

    James Utterback;Bengt-Arne Vedin;Eduardo Alvarez;Sten Ekman

  • Innovating through design

    Roberto Verganti

  • Design as brokering of languages: Innovation strategies in Italian firms

    Roberto Verganti

  • Collaborative Strategies in Design-intensive Industries: Knowledge Diversity and Innovation

    Claudio Dell'Era;Roberto Verganti

  • Managing the Sources of Uncertainty: Matching Process and Context in Software Development

    Alan MacCormack;Roberto Verganti

  • A multi-project management framework for new product development

    Adriano De Maio;Roberto Verganti;Mariano Corso

  • Planned Flexibility: Linking Anticipation and Reaction in Product Development Projects

    Roberto Verganti

  • Leveraging on systemic learning to manage the early phases of product innovation projects

    Roberto Verganti

  • Design-Driven Innovation

    Roberto Verganti;Claudio Dell'Era

  • Four kinds of design thinking: From ideating to making, engaging, and criticizing

    Claudio Dell'Era;Stefano Magistretti;Cabirio Cautela;Roberto Verganti;Roberto Verganti

  • Which Kind of Collaboration is Right for You? The new leaders in innovation will be those who figure out the best way to leverage a network of outsiders

    G. P Pisano;R. Verganti

  • The Open Innovation in Science research field: a collaborative conceptualisation approach

    Susanne Beck;Carsten Bergenholtz;Marcel Bogers;Marcel Bogers;Tiare Brasseur

  • Continuous improvement and inter-project learning in new product development

    Emilio Bartezzaghi;Mariano Corso;Roberto Verganti

  • Strategies of Innovation and Imitation of Product Languages

    Claudio Dell'Era;Roberto Verganti

Frequent Co-Authors

Claudio Dell'Era
Claudio Dell'Era Polytechnic University of Milan
Bruce Tether
Bruce Tether University of Manchester
Gary P. Pisano
Gary P. Pisano Harvard University
Federico Caniato
Federico Caniato Polytechnic University of Milan
Federico Frattini
Federico Frattini Polytechnic University of Milan
Donald A. Norman
Donald A. Norman University of California, San Diego
Keith Goffin
Keith Goffin Cranfield University
Marcel Bogers
Marcel Bogers Eindhoven University of Technology
Raffaella Cagliano
Raffaella Cagliano Polytechnic University of Milan
Marco Ajmone Marsan
Marco Ajmone Marsan Polytechnic University of Turin

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