He attended Gordonstoun boarding school in Moray, Scotland, and later studied architecture at the University of Cambridge and city planning at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, before taking his PhD in technology transfer at Imperial College London.
[8] He was also a research fellow at the Sol Snider Center, the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania.
[9] Boisot was a co-founder of the I-Space Institute, a research and consulting company that grew out of and is based on his work on the strategic management of knowledge.
[11] The EGOS Annual Award in Honour of Max Boisot recognizes an outstanding paper, with preference given to early career scholars.
Contributions in any of the main areas in which Max Boisot forged new understanding through a knowledge perspective are eligible for the award, in particular, research on organizational complexity; the strategic management of knowledge; China's business system; and Big Science.