My specific research interest focuses on tools and paradigms facilitating mass and open innovation (other buzzwords include crowdsourcing, open source, lead user etc.), customer-driven innovation, distributed co-creation (using "collective intelligence" paradigms), soft gates and the like, specifically in two domains: corporate R&D and basic research (as conducted at not-for-profit universities).

I am very interested in understanding how intelligence research can inform management theories (especially new innovation paradigms) by applying rules (e.g., swarm behavior) and design principles from AI (e.g., three constituents, motivated complexity, cumulative selection) to organizational contexts.

My broader interest lies at the interface between business and technology: requirements management, technology push vs. market pull product development and similar.

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In 2009, I was the global project manager for a research and teaching collaboration that involved 48 universities around the world: http://shanghailectures.org

Buecheler, Thierry; Rocky Lonigro, Rudolf M. Füchslin, Rolf Pfeifer (2011): "Modeling and Simulating Crowdsourcing as a Complex Biological System: Human Crowds Manifesting Collective Intelligence on the Internet." in Tom Lenaerts, Mario Giacobini, Hugues Bersini, Paul Bourgine, Marco Dorigo, Rene Doursat (Eds.): Advances in Artificial Life, ECAL 2011. Proceedings of the Eleventh European Conference on the Synthesis and Simulation of Living Systems. ECAL11. Paris, August: MIT Press, Cambridge, Mass., 109–116.

Thierry Bücheler, Jan Henrik Sieg (2011), "Understanding Science 2.0: Crowdsourcing and Open Innovation in the Scientific Method", Proceedings of FET11, The European Future Technologies Conference and Exhibition, Elsevier Publishing, Amsterdam, Netherlands. IN PRESS

Thierry Bücheler, Jan Henrik Sieg, Rudolf M. Füchslin, Rolf Pfeifer (2010), "Crowdsourcing, Open Innovation and Collective Intelligence in the Scientific Method: A Research Agenda and Operational Framework" in H. Fellermann, M. Dörr, M. M. Hanczyc, L. Ladegaard Laursen, S. Maurer, D. Merkle, P.-A. Monnard, K. Stoy, S. Rasmussen, eds. Artificial Life XII. Proceedings of the Twelfth International Conference on the Synthesis and Simulation of Living Systems. MIT Press, Cambridge, Mass., 679–686.

Béatrice S. Hasler, Thierry Bücheler, Rolf Pfeifer (2009). "Collaborative Work in 3D Environments: A Research Agenda and Operational Framework" in A. A. Ozok, P. Zaphiris, eds. Online communities and social computing. Third international conference, OCSC 2009, held as part of HCI International 2009, San Diego, CA, USA, July 19-24, 2009 ; proceedings. Springer, Berlin, 23–32.

Erik Wilde, Sai Anand, Thierry Bücheler, Max Jörg, Nick Nabholz, Petra Zimmermann, "Collaboration Support for Bibliographic Data", International Journal of Web Based Communities, 4(1):98-109, January 2008

Erik Wilde, Sai Anand, Thierry Bücheler, Nick Nabholz, Petra Zimmermann, "Bibliographies as Shared Resources", Proceedings of the 2006 IADIS International Conference on Web Based Communities, San Sebastian, Spain, February 2006

Thierry Bücheler, Erik Wilde, "JSF versus Struts: Server-seitige Java-Techniken im Web", iX/Heise 18(10):133-135, October 2005

Thierry Bücheler, "ShaRefWeb: A web application for bibliography management", Master Thesis at the Department for Electrical Engineering, ETH Zürich, October 2005

Thierry Bücheler, Lukas Oertle, "IT-Offshoring in Switzerland: Opportunities and Threats for large, medium and small Companies", Semester Thesis at the Chair for Management and Business Adrministration, ETH Zürich, July 2004

André Bayer, Stephan Schneider, Bernhard Stähli, Thierry Bücheler, "P2PBomberman: A Peer-to-Peer Realtime Application", Institute for Pervasive Computing, ETH Zürich, June 2003

Spring 2011 - Two guest lectures at "Fallstudien", Prof. Dr. Jürg Gutknecht and Dr. Marc Brandis:

My lectures: "Xalign - Cost Performance Management for a Large Stock Exchange, effects of market consolidation", ETH Zurich

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Fall 2010 - Guest lecture at "Information Management", Prof. Dr. Gerhard Schwabe
My lecture: "Post Merger Management (with a focus on IT systems in financial services)", University of Zurich

Spring 2010 - Two guest lectures at "251-0820-00L - Fallstudien aus der Praxis", Prof. Dr. Jürg Gutknecht and Dr. Marc Brandis: My lectures: "Xalign - Cost Performance Management for a Large Stock Exchange, effects of the financial crisis", ETH Zurich

Fall 2009 - Head assistant at "151-0625-00L The ShanghAI Lectures: Introduction to Artificial Intelligence", Prof. Dr. Rolf Pfeifer et al., University of Zurich

Fall 2009 - Guest lecture at "492 - Information Management", Prof. Dr. Gerhard Schwabe
My lecture: "Post Merger Management (with a focus on IT systems in financial services)", University of Zurich

Spring 2009 - Two guest lectures at "251-0820-00L - Fallstudien aus der Praxis", Dr. Marc Brandis:

My lectures: "Xalign - Cost Performance Management for a Large Stock Exchange", ETH Zurich

Spring 2009 - Assistant to the seminar "8,720 - Artificial Intelligence and Strategic Management: Coping with the Unexpected", Prof. Dr. Rolf Pfeifer and Dr. Simon Grand, joint seminar between University of Zurich and University of St. Gallen (HSG)

Fall 2008 - Guest lecture at "492 - Information Management", Prof. Dr. Gerhard Schwabe

My lecture: "Post Merger Management", University of Zurich

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