He has been guiding a number of "study tours", especially to Berlin and the United States, devoted to managers and students and mainly concerning the topic of innovation and identity.

Gianluca Bocchi introduced, indeed, complexity studies in Italy with the volume La sfida della complessità (with Mauro Ceruti, Feltrinelli, 1985) that focuses on the changing paradigms of sciences in the present times as well as the number of modes human beings adopt to inhabit the globe.

L’Europa delle diversità contro la pulizia etnica (Raffaello Cortina, 1994) that wants to be a sort of manual for citizens of the new Europe, as writes Edgar Morin in the preface to the book, by proposing a critical analysis of the historical roots of the European civilization and of European nations in the light of the major events of the present times, that are so ambivalent being at the same time full of constructive and deconstructive potential.

In 2001, he edited with Mauro Ceruti the volume Le radici prime dell’Europa (Bruno Mondadori), an interdisciplinary collection of the most important reflections (mostly genetic, linguistic and archaeological) that allow us to re-construct the long-term European history making reference, in particular, to migration routes (of people and cultures) that took place through the continent.

In 2004, he wrote the book Educazione e Globalizzazione (with Mauro Ceruti, Raffaello Cortina), where the authors propose a way to reform the national educational system by taking into account the major changes that have been occurring in both the international geo-political and geo-economical scenarios as well as in the forms and contents of our knowledge instruments for interpreting them.

One of the main foci of Gianluca Bocchi's current scientific research is devoted to the epistemological questions arising for biological and evolutionary sciences, in an age where there is a proliferation of empirical and sometimes very surprising results concerning our knowledge of living systems: they do need a new philosophical frame to make them relevant for our enquiry concerning man, nature and society.

Other main current fields of enquiry in Gianluca Bocchi's interrogation are: global history and human evolution; paradigmatic changes in the way of seeing and imagining the world by contemporary sciences; interactions, clashes and hybridizations of cultures; cultural stratifications, urban boundaries and planning strategies in contemporary European cities; social trends and institutional responses in political European systems; origins and developments of national and ethnical identities; politics and governance of globalization; the relationship between emerging technologies and human identities; the elaboration of a new philosophical view of change connecting models developed in natural and human sciences; philosophical implications of the rapid growing "sciences of the artificial" (synthetic biology plus robotics).