Peter A. Gloor is a Research Fellow at both the Center for Coordination Science at MIT's Sloan School of Management and the Center for Digital Strategies at Dartmouth University's Tuck School of Business, exploring Collabortive Innovation Networks. Until the end of 2002, Gloor was a Partner with Deliotte Consulting, leading its e-business practice for Europe; before that, he was a Partner with PricewaterhouseCoopers and Section Leader of SoftwareEngineering at Union Bank of Switzerland.

• Introduction: At the Tipping Point ; 1. COINs and Their Benefits ; 2. Collaborative Innovation Through Swarm Creativity ; 3. The DNA of COINS ; 4. Ethical Codes in Small Worlds ; 5. Real-Life Examples: Lessons Learned from COINs ; 6. COINs and Communications Technology ; Appendix A CKN ; Appendix B TeCFlow ; Appendix C KFO

"We live in the age of networks. We advise young people to build networks to advance their careers. We study organizations by assessing the networks that develop within and among them. We encourage firms with like technology to cluster geographically so their scientists can 'network'. And, of course, there is the Internet that has changed the world, scientifically, socially, and politically. Peter Gloor takes us through one of the most important of these developments: the creation of Collaborative Innovation Networks..." --Thomas J. Allen, Howard W. Johnson Professor of Management and Professor of Engineering Systems, MacVicar Faculty Fellow, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Peter A. Gloor is a Research Fellow at both the Center for Coordination Science at MIT's Sloan School of Management and the Center for Digital Strategies at Dartmouth University's Tuck School of Business, exploring Collabortive Innovation Networks. Until the end of 2002, Gloor was a Partner with Deliotte Consulting, leading its e-business practice for Europe; before that, he was a Partner with PricewaterhouseCoopers and Section Leader of SoftwareEngineering at Union Bank of Switzerland.

• Introduction: At the Tipping Point ; 1. COINs and Their Benefits ; 2. Collaborative Innovation Through Swarm Creativity ; 3. The DNA of COINS ; 4. Ethical Codes in Small Worlds ; 5. Real-Life Examples: Lessons Learned from COINs ; 6. COINs and Communications Technology ; Appendix A CKN ; Appendix B TeCFlow ; Appendix C KFO

"We live in the age of networks. We advise young people to build networks to advance their careers. We study organizations by assessing the networks that develop within and among them. We encourage firms with like technology to cluster geographically so their scientists can 'network'. And, of course, there is the Internet that has changed the world, scientifically, socially, and politically. Peter Gloor takes us through one of the most important of these developments: the creation of Collaborative Innovation Networks..." --Thomas J. Allen, Howard W. Johnson Professor of Management and Professor of Engineering Systems, MacVicar Faculty Fellow, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Peter A. Gloor is a Research Fellow at both the Center for Coordination Science at MIT's Sloan School of Management and the Center for Digital Strategies at Dartmouth University's Tuck School of Business, exploring Collabortive Innovation Networks. Until the end of 2002, Gloor was a Partner with Deliotte Consulting, leading its e-business practice for Europe; before that, he was a Partner with PricewaterhouseCoopers and Section Leader of SoftwareEngineering at Union Bank of Switzerland.

• Introduction: At the Tipping Point ; 1. COINs and Their Benefits ; 2. Collaborative Innovation Through Swarm Creativity ; 3. The DNA of COINS ; 4. Ethical Codes in Small Worlds ; 5. Real-Life Examples: Lessons Learned from COINs ; 6. COINs and Communications Technology ; Appendix A CKN ; Appendix B TeCFlow ; Appendix C KFO

"We live in the age of networks. We advise young people to build networks to advance their careers. We study organizations by assessing the networks that develop within and among them. We encourage firms with like technology to cluster geographically so their scientists can 'network'. And, of course, there is the Internet that has changed the world, scientifically, socially, and politically. Peter Gloor takes us through one of the most important of these developments: the creation of Collaborative Innovation Networks..." --Thomas J. Allen, Howard W. Johnson Professor of Management and Professor of Engineering Systems, MacVicar Faculty Fellow, Massachusetts Institute of Technology