News8 October 2026

A new website for NI Lab

The lab's mission, research, people, tools and news now live in one place.

Five groups of nodes joined by a few bridging ties

The Network Innovation Lab has a new website. It brings together what used to be scattered across several pages:

Home: the mission, the direction of the lab, our partners and the latest news.
Research: the five research fields and the research programs.
People: the directors, the research team and the fellows.
Tools: web apps built at the lab, starting with the Network Visualizer.
News: papers, events, visits and projects.

New posts appear on this page and in the news feed.

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One node connecting two otherwise separate groups

Event24 September 2026

Sample: Seminar on brokers and the flow of ideas

[Speaker name] of [University] presents new work on how people who bridge separate groups shape which ideas travel.

A dense core of connected nodes surrounded by a sparse periphery

Publication9 September 2026

Sample: New paper on core and periphery in R&D collaboration

A study by [authors], forthcoming in [journal], looks at who ends up at the core of a firm's collaboration network and what that means for new ideas.

Beppe Soda, Alessandro Iorio, Pier Vittorio Mannucci

News7 September 2026

Three Bocconi Scholars Honored by The Academy of Management’s Social Networks Society

The Network Innovation Lab scholars Beppe Soda, Alessandro Iorio and Pier Vittorio Mannucci win in three different categories. This is also a recognition for a whole group of researchers working on social and organizational networks