Satish Nambisan

Nambisan conducts research in the areas of innovation management, technological entrepreneurship, technology strategy, and social innovation. His articles have appeared in several management journals including Harvard Business Review, MIT Sloan Management Review, Stanford Social Innovation Review, Management Science, Organization Science, and Academy of Management Review.

Nambisan is the author of "The Global Brain: Your Roadmap for Innovating Faster and Smarter in a Networked World",^[1] which applies the concept of Global brain to management and focuses on global innovation networks. An article based on this book appeared in Harvard Business Review.^[2]

Nambisan (along with Mohanbir Sawhney of Northwestern University) coined the term Innovation capitalist to describe a new type of innovation intermediary.^[3]

He is also credited with introducing the concept of Virtual customer environment that describes Web-based forums for customer co-innovation and value co-creation. His publications on this topic has appeared in several academic journals such as Academy of Management Review,^[4] MIT Sloan Management Review,^[5] and Organization Science ^[6]

Prior to joining CWRU, he was Professor of Entrepreneurship and Technology Management at the Lubar School of Management, University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee and Professor of Technology Management & Strategy at the Lally School of Management, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.^{[citation needed]}

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