The Center participates in a global network of university-based Innovation and Change Leadership centers that conduct joint research, joint publications, co-sponsored professional training, development programs, and international conferences. Current international partners include:

• Linkoping University, Linkoping, Sweden
  Enterprising by Projects and Organizational Knowledge (EPOK) is a research group which focuses on the study of project organization and knowledge processes within firms and organizations. All of its members belong to the Business Administration division within the Department of Management and Economics and School of Management, at Linköping University.
  
• University of Hull Business School
  Centre for Management and Organizational Learning
  Steven Armstrong, Director
  
  Collaborations with CMOL currently include a planned co-development of an executive course on innovation and creativity that will be co-taught by CICL Director DeFillippi and CMOL Director Armstrong at each university to post-graduate students, executives and workshop clientele of the two Centers.
  
• University of Sussex and University of Brighton
  Complex Products Innovation Center
  Michael Hobday and Howard Rush, Co-Directors
  
  Current collaborations with COPS include the following: Sponsorhip for CICL Director DeFillippi’s one year Social Science Research Council Visiting Fellowship to promote scholarly collaboration between senior scholars in the UK and USA. Within this Fellowship CICL Director DeFillippi is editing a special issue of the prestigious European Journal Organization Studies and also organizing new research projects and funded research grant applications with multiple senior research colleagues at COPS.