University of Valencia
Isidre March Chordà (PhD in business and economics, Universitat de València, Spain) is Professor in the Department of Business Administration, Faculty of Economics, Universitat de València. He obtained a Master’s degree (MSc) in Technology and Innovation Management at the Science Policy Research Unit (SPRU), University of Sussex (UK). He is a Director of the research line in Innovation and Entrepreneurship. Director of the Master´s degree in Creation and Management of Innovative firms. He is also Director of research projects in Innovation performance and management of Technology-based companies. Autor of papers in Technovation, Journal of Business Research, Management Decision, Technology Analysis and Strategic Management, Drug Discovery Today, International Entrepreneurship and Management Journal, Entrepreneurship & Regional Development, among others. He is the supervisor of 6 doctoral theses in topics related to Innovation Management, firm´s performance, Technology-based firms, Seed Accelerators. He is a Visiting Scholar of the UC Berkeley (US).
Warsaw University
Beata Glinka is a full professor of management, she holds a chair of Entrepreneurship and Management Systems at the Faculty of Management University of Warsaw, Poland. She is also a member of the University of Warsaw Senate, Chairwoman of the Committee for Finance of the University of Warsaw Senate, and Rector’s Plenipotentiary for Entrepreneurship Development. Her research focuses on entrepreneurship, with a special interest in immigrant entrepreneurship. In her studies she uses mainly qualitative methods. For her research she received several awards (including Fulbright Foundation Senior Researcher Award and The Polish Science Foundation award for young scientists). She was a visiting scholar/visiting researcher in Columbia University (NY), George Mason University, University of Szeged. She published in Journal of Business Research, Management Decision, Journal of Organizational Change Management, among others.
University of Rome “Tor Vergata”
Massimiliano M. Pellegrini is a qualified associate professor at University of Rome “Tor Vergata”. From the same university he also received his Ph.D. 2011. Previously, he was a Senior lecturer in Entrepreneurship at Roehampton University Business School. During his career he covered several roles as permanent staff at Princess Sumaya University for technology – Amman Jordan and University of West-London – London, UK as lecturer. As visiting scholar, he was associated to the research program of the University of Enlarger-Nuremberg – Chair in Innovation, Sol C. Snider Entrepreneurial Research Center at The Wharton School, and University of Linz. He is the Past Chair for the Strategic Interest Group of Entrepreneurship (E-ship SIG) at the European Academy of Management (EURAM). His research interests and publications are focused on entrepreneurial and organizational behaviours; he published more than 30 contributions especially in highly-ranked journals e.g., Small Bus. Economics, J. of Business Ethics, J. of Managerial Psychology, Int. J. of Entrepreneurial Behaviours & Research, and Business Process Management J.