Proceedings of theProceedings of the8th European Conference

onInnovation and Entrepreneurship

Hogeschool-Universiteit BrusselBrusselsBelgium

Volume One

19-20 September 2013

Edi d bEdited byDr Peter Teirlinck and Stijn KelchtermansHogeschool-Universiteit Brussel, Belgium

and Filip de Beule

Th M A t A tThomas More Antwerpen, AntwerpBelgium

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Contents

Paper Title Author(s) Page No.

Preface vii

Committee viii

Biographies xi

Volume One

Examining Determinants of Innovation Culture in Egyptian Organizations

Hadia Abdel Aziz and Sandra Marcos

1

Rethinking Employee Contribution: A Framework for Promoting Employee-Driven Innovation

Tuomo Alasoini

9

Environmental Innovation and Financial Performance: The Moderating Effect of Motives and Firm Size

Petra Andries and Ute Stephan 17

Organizational Innovation as Leverage for Open Innovation Practices: A Business Model Perspec-tive

Paula Anzola Romn, Cristina Bayona-Sez and Teresa Garca-Marco

26

Spin-Up: A Comprehensive Program Aimed to Accelerate University Spin-Off Growth

Manuel Au-Yong Oliveira, Joo Jos Pinto Ferreira, Qing Ye and Marina van Geenhuizen

34

Entrepreneurship Versus Self-Employment in the Context of Social Changes in Romania: Individual and Contextual Factors

Alina Badulescu and Roxana Hatos

45

Environmental Obstacles and Support Factors of Social Entrepreneurship

Alina Badulescu, Sebastian Sipos-Gug and Adriana Borza

52

Narrative Analysis of a Highly Creative Entrepre-neur Pursuant to Scientific Evaluation Criteria

Zuhal Baltas and Handan Odaman 61

A Comparative Study of the Entrepreneurial Potential of Economics Students of the University of Oradea, Romania and Adnan Menderes University, Turkey

Olimpia Ban, Esin Sayin, Dorin Coita and Ali Eleren

69

Key Factors Affecting Strategy-Minded Decision Makers in Their Innovations Choices

Fernando Barbosa and Fernando Romero 79

Business Strategies in Contexts of High Uncertain-ty: A Case Study on the Innovation and Interna-tionalization Processes of a Technological Portu-guese SME

Fernando Barbosa and Fernando Romero 88

Co-Ownership of Intellectual Property: Exploring the Value Appropriation and Value Creation Implications of Co-Patenting With Different Partners

Rene Belderbos, Bruno Cassiman, Dries Faems, Bart Leten and Bart Van Looy

96

Organizational Innovations Constituents and Determinants Within Underdeveloped and Immature Markets

Muamer Bezdroband Aziz unje

105

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How Organizational Creativity Influence Firms Profitability: The Moderating Role of Corporate Entrepreneurship

Katarzyna Bratnicka, Bartomiej Gabry and Mariusz Bratnicki

118

Innovation and Entrepreneurship Assessment Initiatives: A Critical View

Cagri Bulut, Eda Evla Mutlu and Murat Nazli 126

Innovation Through Offset Agreements: An Empirical Study in the Brazilian Defence Industry

Alex Carlos and Regina Leite 136

Individual and Mandatory Innovation in Automotive Industry: A Case Study

Cristian Chiru, Versavia Ancusa, Razvan Bogdan and Bogdan Suta

145

Costs as a Decision-Making Criteria in the Plan-ning of Innovation Processes

Piotr Chwastyk 154

Platform Strategies for Open Government Innovation

Brian Cleland, Brendan Galbraith, Barry Quinn and Paul Humphreys

162

Small and Medium Enterprises (SME) and Competitiveness: An Empirical Study

Teresa Costa and Lusa Carvalho 173

Innovation in Energy Sector a Comparative Study in Brazil and Portugal

Teresa Costa, Lusa Carvalho, Geciane Porto and Priscila Rezende da Costa

180

Innovation and Entrepreneurship by Academic Spin-Offs: The UNITI Business Case

Renata Paola Dameri, Federico Fontana and Roberto Garelli

189

Students Gains in Entrepreneurial Self-Efficacy: A Comparison of Learning-By-Doing Versus Lecture-Based Courses

Luc De Grez and Dirk Van Lindt

198

Rewards Work? Researching the Relation Between Monetary Reward and Employee Innovativeness

Stan De Spiegelaere , Guy Van Gyes and Geert Van Hootegem

204

Significant Competitiveness Factors of Companies in the Czech Part of the Euroregion Neisse-Nisa-Nysa

Jaroslava Ddkov and Denisa Skrbkov 212

Towards Sustainable Business Models: Necessity, Opportunity or Challenge?

Nikolay Dentchev and Jan Jonker 221

Standardization- the Source of Innovation and Sustainable Development of Companies in Romania

Dan Constantin Dumitrescu, Nicoleta Trandafir Mnescu and Edward Debelka

228

Employee-Driven Innovation in a Higher Educational Institution: Organisational and Cultural Influences

Smile Dzisi, Joshua Ofori-Amanfo and Benjamin Kwofie

235

Firm Capabilities, Complementarities and Innova-tion in the Latin American Coffee Sector

Luis Figueroa 243

Intellectual Capital Between Innovation and Innovative Adaptation- Opportunities to Obtain Performance

Nicoleta Valentina Florea and Mihaela Badea

252

SMEs Internationalisation Through Strategic Alliances: A Qualitative Study

Mrio Franco, Heiko Haase and Sandra Figueiredo

261

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The Business Model of the Entrepreneurial Uni-versity

Olaf Gaus and Matthias Raith 268

National Innovation System and Public Innovation Policy: Theory and Practice Problems

Oleg Golichenko and Svetlana Samovoleva 278

Involving Students in Ideas Generation a Bulgarian Case

Elissaveta Gourova, Tzvetelina Teneva and Tsvetoslava Kyoseva

287

Emancipatory Mori Entrepreneurship in Screen Production: Theory and Application

Ella Henry 296

Research on the Trust Governance in the Venture Capital Syndication

Heyin Hou and Weixing Qu

303

Employee-Driven Innovation (EDI): Toward an Extended Concept of Innovation

Steen Hyrup 313

Innovative Approach in Managing the Process of Manufacturing Removable Partial Dentures

Danut Iorga, Alexandru Ghiban and Cezar Scarlat

322

Entrepreneurial behavior and interactivity of Sri Lankan farmer groups

Chandana Jayawardena and Madushi Abeyrathne

333

Business Modeling for Sustainability: Identifying Five Modeling Principles and Demonstrating Their Role and Function in an Explorative Case Study

Jan Jonker and Nikolay Dentchev

340

Innovation Process Planning: Aim, Scope and Constraints

Magdalena Jurczyk Bunkowska 347

Higher-Order Learning in Entrepreneurship: A key-Issue for Lifelong Learning and Career Counselling?

Alexandros Kakouris, , Niki Perdikaki and Panagiotis Georgiadis

355

Innovation Capital as a Driver of Eco-Innovations: A Case of European Enterprises

Tomasz Kijek 363

Employee Driven Innovation: Bridging Open and Close Innovation Management Practices

Eric Michael Laviolette, Renaud Redien-Collot and Ann-Charlotte Teglborg

370

Social Capital, Knowledge Strategy, and new Venture Performance: Evidence From Graduate Entrepreneurial Ventures in China

Jun Li and Weihe Gao 378

For Strategic Environmental Sustainability not to be Lost in Translation(s) Anymore

Sophie Linart and Annick Castiaux 384

Social Responsibility Like aim of Innovation Activity in Information and Communication Industry: The Spanish Case

Mara Jess Luengo, Teresa Areitio and Mara Obeso

392

State Parenting Entrepreneurship - the Process of Seizing Opportunities a Case of a Chinese Entrepreneur

Sabrina Luthfa Karim and Hanjun Huang 401

The Impact of the Economic Downturn on Innova-tive Performance in Poland

Anna Matras-Bolibok 409

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How to Conciliate Best Enemies? The Case of Competitive Chemical Industries in Ecofriendly Cultures

Cline Maximin-Tieu

417

Volume Two

Failing to Succeed: A Network Theoretic Comparison of Global Accelerators

Patrick McHugh, Chris Whipple and Xiaoy-ang Yang

425

Sustainability Among Tourism and Hospitality Industrys Ventures: From Awareness to Specific Practices

Ioana Mester and Daniel Badulescu

434

Innovation, Design and Competitiveness: Results From a Portuguese Online Questionnaire

Jos Monteiro-Barata 442

Using Strategic Alliances to Facilitate Community Based new Venture Creation

Peter Moroz, Bob Kayseas and Robert Anderson

454

Senior- & Juniorpreneurship: An Intergeneration-al Approach in Engineering and Entrepreneurship for Value Creation

Bernd Neutschel, Olaf Gaus, Matthias Raith

and Sndor Vajna 463

Cooperation Activities for Innovation: An Empirical Analysis Applied to Iberian Countries

Sandra Nunes, Teresa Costa and Lusa Car-valho

471

Organizational Innovation can job Enrichment Enhance Employee?

Morena Paulii, Tea Golja and Barbara Unkovi

482

The Institutions of Social Entrepreneurship in the USA, UK and Germany Within a Context of Mar-ket-Based vs. Bank-Based Systems

Ruslan Pavlov 490

Collaborative Strategies for Innovation Capacity-Building: A Study of MITs International Partnerships

Sebastian Pfotenhauer, Dan Roos, and Dava Newman

498

The Internationalization Process of German High-Tech SMEs: An Empirical Analysis

Andreas Pinkwart and Dorian Proksch 507

Entrepreneurship - Successes and Failures of Start-Up SMEs on Regional and International Markets

Aneta Ptak-ChmielewskaI 515

Entrepreneurship Education: A View Across Out-come Expectations and Antecedents in Students of Higher Education

Augusto de Castro Rocha, Maria Jos Agui-lar Madeira Silva and Julia Discacciati

525

Institutional Support Program for Entrepreneur-ship: The Experience of the University of Minho

Cristina Rodrigues and Filipa Vieira 533

Factors Influencing Innovation and Competitiveness a Comparative Analysis of Selected Economies

Anna Sacio Szymaska 543

Experiential Entrepreneurship Education in Canada new Venture Creation While Earning a Masters Degree

Tarek Sadek and Rafik Loutfy 555

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Knowledge Sharing, Innovation Networks, and Innovation Capability: The Case of Uruguayan Software Firms

Josune Senz and Andrea Prez-Bouvier 564

IS Resilience in SMEs in Post-Earthquake Christchurch

Amitrajit Sarkar and Stephen Wingreen 573

The Institutional Support as a Factor for Technology Internationalization From Developing Countries

Viktor Stojmanovski, Velimir Stojkovski, Mijalce Santa and Beti Kostadinovska Dimi-trovska

581

How SMEs Mitigate Risks When Embarking in Open Innovation Projects

Adrian Dumitru Tanu and Eliza Laura Pai-cu (Cora)

588

How Planguage Measurement Metrics: Shapes System Quality

Man-Chie Tse and Ravinder Singh Kahlon 597

A Study of Customer Feedback and Employee Driven Innovation

Jiro Usugami 605

Space Technology Transfer: A Systematic Litera-ture Review

Karen Venturini and Chiara Verbano 613

The Evolution of Resources in Research-Based Spinoffs: Learning from a Case Study

Chiara Verbano, Karen Venturini and Avi Wasser

623

Companies Innovativeness Influenced by Organi-zational Structures

Annika Vesterinen and Kalle Elfvengren 633

Structuring the Unstructured: Service Innovation in a UK Small Business Services Firm

Vessela Warren and Barry Davies 641

Student Entrepreneurial Intentions: Two Perspectives

Doan Winkel, Jeff Vanevenhoven, Mark James and Eric Liguori

649

Complex Technology Assessment as a Determinant for Marketing Activities in Innovation Commercialisation

Urszula Wnuk and Ludmia opaciska 661

Disruptive Innovation in Public Service Sectors: Ambidexterity and the Role of Incumbents

Danielle Wood, Sebastian Pfotenhauer, Wil-jeana Glover and Dava Newman

669

Entrepreneurial Attitudes and Entrepreneurships Potential in East Timor

Tomas Xavier, Filipa Vieira and Cristina Rodrigues

677

PHD Papers 687

Marketing Support of Innovative Projects Gulnara Chernobaeva 689

Public and Private Sector Approaches to SMME Development in the Ethekwini Municipality

Anneline Chetty

698

Factors Influencing an Upscaling Process of Grassroots Innovations: Preliminary Evidence From India

Ann De Keersmaecker, Prabhu Kandachar, Vikram Parmar, Koen Vandenbempt and Chris Baelus

705

Collective Entrepreneurship, a Solution to Conflicting Institutional Logics in the Entrepreneurship Process?

Frdric Dufays 715

Innovations, Standards and Quality Management Systems: Analysis of Interrelation

Raimonda Liepia, Inga Lapia, Jolanta Janauska and Jnis Mazais

723

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Achieving Performance of Organization by Developing a Model of Innovation Management

Andreea Maier, Marieta Olaru, Dorin Maier and Mihai Marinescu

731

Integrating Concepts of Creativity and Innovation - a key to Business Excellence

Dorin Maier, Marieta Olaru and Andreea Maier

739

Entrepreneurs Access to Public Finance as a Gendered Structure Case Finland

Petra Merenheimo 747

Firms Response to Peer Behaviour Daniel Neicu, Stijn Kelchtermans and Peter Teirlinck

755

Firm Structure and Problems of Governance in the Italian SMEs

Adalberto Rangone 762

Understanding Entrepreneurial Performance in a Networked Social Environment

Carla Riverola and Francesc Miralles 773

Performance Measurement and Management in SMEs

Ted Sarmiento and David Devins 782

Effects of Technological Innovation on Knowledge Acquisition Inside the Organization: A Case Study

Dorota Silva, Fernando Romero and Filipa Vieira

791

Measuring the Validity of a Text Based Indicator for Exploration and Exploitation Activities

Nazlihan Ugur 797

Non Academic Papers 808

Incubators as Enablers for Academic Entrepreneurship

Frank Gielen, Sven De Cleyn and Jan Cop-pens

809

Applying the Disruptive Israeli Innovation Model to Re-Inventing Corporate Education

Janet Lea Sernack 818

Work in Progress Papers 825

Entrepreneurship as Future Career for Post-Graduate Business Students: A Realistic Option?

Daniel Badulescu and Mariana Vancea 827

How Strategic and Social Entrepreneurship can Create Sustainable Economic and Social Value: A Proposed Model for the Cooperative Sector

Vtor Figueiredo and Mrio Franco

831

Exploring the Social Dimension of Entrepreneurial Resourcefulness: A Case Study Among Family Business Entrepreneurs

Bart Henssen

835

Dragging One's Feet Along the way: How (In)Congruent Motives Influence Entrepreneurial Performance

Julie Hermans

838

Finding New Competitive Intelligence: Using Structured and Unstructured Data

Ravinder Singh Kahlon and Man-Chie Tse 842

Implications of an Emerging Model for Product Ideation, Design and Development Using Bridging Enterprises and Open Communities of Practice

Karla Phlypo

847

Internationalisation by SMEs as a Strategy to Cope With Weakness in the Domestic Market : The Case of Spain, Ireland and France

Angela Poulakidas, Robert Hisrich and Clau-dine Kearney

851

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Preface

These proceedings represent the work of contributors to the 8th European Conference on Entrepreneurship and Innovation (ECIE 2013), hosted this year by Hogeschool-Universiteit Brussel (HUBrussel) in Belgium.The Conference Chair is Dr Peter Teirlinck from HUBrussel(KU Leuven) and the Programme Co-Chairs are Dr Stijn Kelchtermans from HUBrussel(KU Leuven) and Dr Filip de Beule from Thomas More Antwerpen (KU Leuven).

Keynote presentations are given by Katrien Mondt, Director-General at Innoviris, Brussels Institute for Science and Innovation on the topic Regional Innovation Policy: the case of the Brussels Capital Region. Cornelis J.J. Eldering from the European Space Agency, Noordwijk, The Netherlands will address the topic Technology Transfer at the European Space Agency and Prof. Dr. Ir. Koenraad Debackere, KU Leuven, Belgium will talk about Smart entrepreneurship in the Triple Helix. ECIE continues to develop and evolve. Now in its 7th year the key aim remains the opportunity for participants to share ideas and meet the people who hold them. The scope of papers will ensure an interesting two days. The subjects covered illustrate the wide range of topics that fall into this important and growing area of re-search.

With an initial submission of 244 abstracts, after the double blind, peer review process there are 79 academic papers, 14 PhD papers, 2 non academic papers and 7 work-in-progress papers published in these Conference Proceedings. These papers represent research from Belgium, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Canada, Croa-tia, Czech Republic, Denmark, Deutschland, Egypt, Finland, France, Germany, Ghana, Greece, Israel, Italy, Ja-pan, Kln, Latvia, Macedonia, Mxico, Morocco, New Zealand, People's Republic of China, Poland, Portugal, Republic of San Marino, Romania, Russia, South Africa, Spain, Sweden, Turkey, UK, and the USA.

We hope that you enjoy reading these Proceedings.

Stijn Kelchtermans and Filip de Beule Co-Programme Chairs September 2013

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Conference Executive Professor Peter Teirlinck Hogeschool-Universiteit Brussel, Belgium Professor Stijn Kelchtermans Hogeschool-Universiteit Brussel, Belgium Bart Leten Catholic University of Leuven, Belgium Mini Track Chairs

Doan Winkel Illinois State University, USA Dr Alexandros Kakouris, University of Athens, Greece Dr Ella Henry Auckland University of Technology, New Zealand Dr Filip De Beule Lessius University College, Antwerp, Belgium Milan Todorovic Union Nikola Tesla University in Belgrade, Serbia Dr Yipeng Liu University of Kent, UK Dr Jun Li University of Essex, UK Prof Dr Alina Badulescu University of Oradea, Romania Dr Ann-Charlotte Teglborg Novancia, Business School Paris, France Dr Liang Guo Rouen Business School, France Dr Ke Rong Bournemouth University, UK Committee Members The 2013 conference programme committee consists of key people in the entrepreneurship and innovation community, both from the UK and overseas. The following people have confirmed their participation: Kamarulzaman Ab. Aziz (Multimedia University, Malaysia); Assoc.Prof.Dr. Zafer Acar (Okan University, Istanbul, Turkey); Dr. Bulent Acma (Anadolu University, Turkey); Dr Hassanali Aghajani (University of Mazandaran(UMZ), Iran, ); Jaione Aguirre (Tekniker technological centre, Spain,); Prof. Ruth Alas(Estonian Business School, Esto-nia); Dr Laurice Alexandre Leclaire (Sorbonne Paris Cit University, France); Dr. Saleh Al-Jufout (Tafila Technical University, Jordan); Prof. Khedidja Allia (University of Science and Technology, Algiers, Algeria); Dr. Hanadi Al-Mubaraki (Kuwait University, Kuwait,); Dr. Rumen Andreev (Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Sofia, Bulgaria); Dr. Zacharoula Andreopoulou (Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece); Dr Christos Apostolakis (Bourne-mouth University, UK); Erik Arntsen (University of Agder, Kristiansand, Norway); Omid Askarzadeh (Polad Saab Shargh, Tehran, Iran); Samantha Aspinall (University of Leeds, UK); Dr. Claire Auplat (Imperial College Business School, London, UK); Prof. Miroslav Baca(University of Zagreb, Varadin, Croatia); Prof Alina Badulescu (University of Oradea, Romania); Susan Bagwell (London Metropolitan University, UK);Prof.Dr. Mi-hai Berinde (University of Oradea, Faculty of Economic Sciences, Romania,); Prof. Cristin Bigan (Ecological Uni-versity of Bucharest, Romania);Prof. Dr. Ferrucio Bilich (University of Aveiro, Portugal); Dr. Adam Jay Bock (University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom,); Prof. Dr. Dietmar Boenke(Reutlingen University, Germany); Ana Maria Bojica (University of Granada, Spain); Prof Raymond Boyle (University of Glasgow, UK); Tina Bratkovic(University of Primorska, Slovenia); Dr. Alexander Brem (University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, , Ger-many); Fraser Bruce (University of Dundee, UK); Dr. Cagri Bulut (Yasar University, Izmir, Turkey); Dr Cagri Bulut (Yasar University, Turkey); Jeffrey Burke (National Pollution Prevention Roundtable, Washington DC, USA); Kevin Burt (University of Lincoln, UK); Prof Luisa Carvalho (Institute Polytechnic of Setubal, Portugal, Portugal); Dr. Toly Chen (Feng Chia University, Taichung, Taiwan); Ph.D. Kuo-Sheng Cheng (National Cheng Kung Univer-sity/Institute of Biomedical Engineering, Taiwan); Prof Chuang-Chun Chiou (Dayeh University, Changhua, Tai-wan); Dr. Nick Clifton (Cardiff Metropolitan University, UK); Prof. Costas N. Costa (Cyprus University of Tech-nology, Lemesos, Cyprus); Prof. Teresa Costa (Instituto Polit cino de Set bal | Escola Superior de Ci ncias Em-presariais, Portugal); Dr. Fengzhi Dai (Tianjin University of Science and Technology, , China); Dr Leo-Paul Dana (University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand); Dr Filip De Beule (Thomas More Antwerpen, Antwerp,, Belgium); Prof. Rogerio Atem De Carvalho (Instituto Federal Fluminense, Campos, Brazil); Sven H. de Cleyn (University of Antwerp, Antwerp, , Belgium); Dr. Luc De Grez (Hogeschool Universiteit Brussel, Belgium); Prof. Armando Carlos de Pina Filho (Federal University of Rio de Janeiro , Brazil); Carine Desleee (University of Lille 2- IMMD,France); Maria Chiara Demartini (University of Pavia, Italy); Dr Izabela Dembiska (University of Szczecin, Poland); Charles Despres (Conservatoire des Arts et Metiers, Paris, France); Prof. Dr. Anca Dodescu (University of Oradea, Romania); Prof. Dr. Michael Doellinger (University Hospital Erlangen, Germany); Prof. Salah Doma (Sinai University, El-Arish, Egypt); Dr. Nelson Duarte (Porto Politechnic - School of Management and Technology, Portugal,); Dr Smile Dzisi (Koforidua Polytechnic, Ghana); Prof Vasco Eiriz (University of

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Minho, , Portugal); Dr Hatem El-Gohary (Birmingham City University, UK,); Dr Scott Erickson (Ithaca College, USA); Prof. Engin Deniz Eris (Dokuz Eylul University, Turkey); Dr. Mahtab Farshchi (London South Bank Univer-sity, UK); Professor Luis F De Pinho (Universidade Lusada de Lisboa, Portugal,); Burca Felekoglu(University of Cambridge, Turkey); Professor Paula Odete Fernandes (Polytechnic Institute of Bragana, Portugal,); Prof. Joo Ferreira (University of Beira Interior, Covilh, Portugal); Prof Maria Joao Ferreira (Universidade Portucalense, Porto, Portugal); Dr Heather Fulford (Aberdeen Business School, UK); Dr Erdei Gbor (University of Debrecen, Hungary); Brendan Galbraith (University of Ulster, UK); Dr. Laura Galloway (Heriott-Watt University, Edin-burgh, UK);Dr Cephas Gbande (Nasarawa State University, Nigeria,); Prof Panagiotis Georgiadis (University of Athens, Greece); Prof. Alan Gillies (Hope Street Centre, UK); Ass. Prof. Dr. Andriana Giurgiu (University of Oradea, Romania); Dr Andrew Goh (University of South Australia, Australia); Dr Sayed Mahdi Golestan Hashemi (Iranian Research Center for Creatology, TRIZ & Innovation Management, Iran); Prof Oleg Golichenko (Central Economics and Mathematics Institute of Russian Academy of Science, Russia,); Dr. Mario Gomez Aguirre (Universidad Michoacana de San Nicolas de Hidalgo, Mexico,);Dr. Elissaveta Gourova (Sofia University "St. Kliment Ohridski", Bulgaria,); Dr Izold Guihur (Universit de Moncton, Canada); Dr Ebru Gunlu (Dokuz Eylul University Faculty of Business, Turkey); Dr Liang Guo (Rouen Business School, Mont Saint Aignan, France); Prof Jukka Hallikas (Lappeenranta University of Technology, Finland); Kaled Hameide (Montclair State university in New Jersey, USA); Prof Wafa Hammedi (University of Namur (FUNDP), Belgium); Dr Saskia Harkema (The Hague University of Applied Sciences, The Netherlands); Dr Jennifer Harrison (Southern Cross University, Aus-tralia,); Takashi Hirao(Tokyo University of Science, Suwa, Japan); John Howard (Public Health and Clinical Sci-ences, UK); Dr Amy Hsiao (Memorial University of Newfoundland, St Johns, Canada); Dr. Dil Hussain (Aalborg University, Denmark); Dr Harri Jalonen (Turku University of Applied Sciences, Finland,); Paul Jones(University of Plymouth, UK); Dr Magdalena Jurczyk-Bunkowska (Opole University of Technology, Poland); Dr Alexandros Kakouris (University of Athens, Greece); Dr. Yusniza Kamarulzaman (University of Malaya, Kuala Lumpur, Ma-laysia); Dr Mira Kartiwi (International Islamic University Malaysia, Malaysia);Prof stijn Kelchtermans (Ho-geschool-Universiteit Brussel, Belgium); Professor Panayiotis Ketikidis (CITY College - International Faculty of the University of Sheffield, Greece); Dr Marko Kolakovic (Faculty of Economics & Business, Croatia); Sam Kongwa (Walter Sisulu University, Mthatha, South Africa); Prof Kothandaraman Kumar (Indian Institute of Management Bangalore, India); Dr Stefan Lagrosen (University West, Sweden); Prof Brent Lane (Kenan-Flager Business School, University of North Carolina, USA); DR Jonathan Lean (University of Plymouth Business School, UK); Kiefer Lee (Sheffield Hallam University, UK); Prof. Dr. Joao Leitao (University of Beira Interior, Por-tugal); Dr. Jun Li (University of Essex, UK); Yipeng Liu (University of Mannheim, Germany); Prof Ilidio Lopes (Polythenic Institute of Santarm, Portugal); Dr Angeline Low (University of Technology Sydney, Mosman, Aus-tralia); Prof Sam Lubbe (University of South Africa, South Africa); Dr Fernando Lucas (Polytechnic Institute of Santarm, Portugal); Phd Mara Jess Luengo(University of Basque Country, Spain); Dr. Randa Mahasneh (The Hashemite University, Jordan); Anneli Manninen (Laurea University of Applied Sciencies, Finland,); Dr Maria Markatou (Technological Education Institute of Larissa, Greece,); Prof Carla Marques (University of Trs-os-Montes Alto Douro (UTAD), Portugal,); Dr. Florinda Matos (ICAA - Intellectual Capital Association Accreditation, Portugal,); Philip McClenaghan (Augsburg University, Germany); Prof.Luis Mendes (Beira Interior University, Portugal,); Zoran Mitrovic (University of Western Cape, South Africa); Asst. Prof. Jos Monteiro-Barata (ISEG, UTL, Lisbon, Portugal); Isabel Mota (Universidade do Porto, Porto. , Portugal); Maurice Mulvenna (University of Ulster, Newtownabbey, UK); Dr Jan Nab(Utrecht University, The Netherlands); Professor Desai Narasimhalu (Singapore Management University, Singapore); Dr. Artie Ng (School of International Business, Seneca College of Applied Arts and Technology, Toronto, Canada); The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong); Prof. Alcina Nunes(Polytechnic Institute of Bragana, Portugal,); Ass.Prof. Birgit Oberer (Kadir Has University, Tur-key); Dr Maria Obeso (University of Cantabria, Spain); Alex Obuh (Delta State University, Nigeria); Professor Jukka Ojasalo (Laurea University of Applied Sciences, Espoo, Finland); Dr. Noreen O'Shea (Novancia Business school, France,); Professor Mohand-Said Oukil (King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals, Dhahran,, Saudi Arabia); Dr Shaun Pather (e-Innovation Academy, Cape Peninsula University of Technology, Cape Town, South Africa); Ruslan Pavlov (Central Economics and Mathematics Institute, Russia); Prof. Dr. Ige Pirnar (Yasar University, Turkey); Dr. Nataa Pomazalov (University of Defence, Brno, Czech Republic); DR. Malgorzata Po-rada-Rochon (University of Szczecin, Poland,); Dr Jean-Michel Quentier (ESC-Bretange, Brest, France); Sud-hanshu Rai (Copenhagen Business School, Frederiksberg, Denmark); Dr Catarina Ramalho (University of Lisbon, Portugal); Prof.Dr Ganesan Ramaswamy (Asia-Pacific Institute of Management, New Delhi, India); Prof. Ricardo Rodrigues (NECE / University of Beira Interior, Portugal); Prof Cristina Rodrigues (University of Minho, Portu-gal); Dr Jose Carlos Rodriguez (Economic and Business Research Institute - Instituto de Investigaciones Economicas y Empresariales, Mexico,); Prof Cristhian Rodriguez Schneider (Catholic University of Temuco, Chili); Fernando Romero (University of Minho, Portugal); Jonas Rundquist (Halmsted University, Sweden);

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Prof Paulo Rupino Cunha (University of Coimbra, Portugal); Dr. Balasundaram Sadhu Ramakrishnan (National Institute of Technology, Tiruchirappalli, India); Prof Rui Pimenta (ESTSP- Instituto Politcnico Porto, Portugal); Amitrajit Sarkar (Christchurch Polytechnic Institute of Technology, New Zealand); Dr Ousanee Sawagvud-charee (Centre for the Creation of Coherent Change and Knowledge, Liverpool John Moores University, UK); Simone Scagnelli (University of Turin, Torino, Italy); Professor Dr. Cezar Scarlat (University "Politehnica" of Bu-charest, Romania); Mark Schatten (University of Zagreb,Varadin, Croatia); Prof. Jeanne Schreurs (Hasselt Uni-versity, Diepenbeek, Belgium); Dr. Maria Theresia Semmelrock-Picej (Klagenfurt University Biztec, Austria); Dr Nima Shahidi (Islamic Azad University- Noorabad mamasani Branch, Iran,); Dr. Armin Shams (University College Cork, National University of Ireland, Ireland); Dr. Namchul Shin (Pace University, New York, USA); Eric Shiu (The University of Birmingham, UK); Prof Sandra Silva(Faculdade de Economia da Universidade do Porto, Por-tugal,); Carmen Sirbu (Danubius University, Romania); Prof Aelita Skarzauskiene (Department of Social Infor-matics, Mykolas Romeris University , Lithuania); Dr Dorotea Slimani (Innventia AB, Sweden); Professor David Smith (Nottingham Trent University, UK); Cristina Sousa (ISCTE-IUL, Portugal); Dr Andr Spithoven (Belgian Science Policy Office, Belgium); Dr Ludmila Striukova (University College London, UK); Prof Peter Teirlinck (Ho-geschool-Universiteit Brussel, Belgium); Dr Aurora Teixeira (Faculdade de Economia, Universidade do Porto, Portugal,); Dr Mangaleswaran Thampoe (Vauniya Campus of the University of Jaffna, Sri Lanka); Prof Milan Todorovic (University Union Nikola Tesla, Serbia); Ana Trevino (ITESM, Mexico); Dr Marios Trigkas (Techno-logical Educational Institute of Larissa, Greece,); Prof. Dr. Lorraine Uhlaner (EDHEC Business School , France); Armando Luis Vieira (Universidade de Aveiro, Portugal); Prof Filipa Vieira (Universidade do Minho DPS,Portugal); Dr Marcia Villasana (Tecnologico de Monterrey, Mexico);Dr Carla Vivas (Polytechnic Institute of Santarm, Portugal); Bernard Vollmar (Carl von Ossietzky Universitt Oldenburg, Oldenburg, Germany); Dr Catherine Wang (Royal Holloway University of London , UK); Dr Ismail Wekke (State College of Sorong, Indone-sia, ); Dr Wioletta Wereda (Siedlce University of Natural Sciences and Humanities, Poland); Dr. Doan Winkel (Illinois State University, USA); Catherine Wright (Heriot Watt University, UK,); Fabiola Wust Zibetti (University of Sao Paulo, Brazil); Aziz Yahya (Universiti Teknikal Malaysia Melaka, Malaysia); Prof Shaker Zahra (University of Minnesota, USA); Dr Krzysztof Zieba (Gdansk University of Technology, Poland,); Dr Malgorzata Zieba(Gdansk University of Technology, Poland); Ph.D. Afonso Zinga (University of Coimbra, School of Econom-ics, Portugal);

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Biographies

Conference Chair

Dr Peter Teirlinck is Programme Director of the Bachelor and Master of Business Administration at Hogeschool-Universiteit Brussel. He is professor in Innovation Management. His main research interest areas include: Innovation in SMEs; Impact assessment of public funding for RTDI; The internationalisation of business research; Innovation and regional development. Peter Teirlinck also is policy adviser for the Belgian Science Policy Office and has been a detached national expert at the European Commission (DG Research). He obtained a Ph.D. in Applied Economics at the Universiteit

Antwerpen in 2009 on the topic "Location of (FDI in) R&D and networking in innovation: analysis and policy making for the business enterprise sector"

Programme Co-Chairs

Dr Stijn Kelchtermans (Ph.D. KULeuven, 2007) is Professor at Hogeschool-Universiteit Brussel (HUBrussel) and affiliated researcher at the department of Managerial Economics, Strategy & Innovation at the KULeuven. At HUBrussel he teaches Master-courses Innovation & Technology Management, R&D Management and Open Innovation. He is also Faculty Coordinator for the learning track Technology & Innovation in the Commercial Engineering program. His research interests include the economics of science and education (productivity analysis, demand estimation) as well as innovation, mainly focusing on industry-science links. His research has been published in international journals like the Journal of Applied Econometrics, Journal of Public Economics and CESIfo Economic Studies.

Dr Filip de Beule is Assistant Professor of International Business at the Lessius University College, Antwerp, Belgium. He holds a BA and MA in Economics, and an MBA from the University of Antwerp Management School (UAMS). He got his PhD from the University of Antwerp on Belgian subsidiary management in the Peoples Republic of China: Strategic evolution, host country impact and policy. Prof. De Beule has lectured as Visiting Professor at the University of Antwerp and the Catholic University of Leuven. Dr. De Beule is board member of the European International Business Academy, where he

serves as national representative for Belgium. He is an affiliate researcher at the LICOS Centre for Institutions and Economic Performance at the Catholic University of Leuven, where he focuses his research on multinational companies and emerging economies. Filip is also affiliated with Thomas More Antwerpen, Antwerp, Belgium.

Keynote Speakers

Prof. Dr. Ir. Koenraad Debackere obtained his Ph.D. in Management with an ICM-fellowship at the University of Gent after stays as an ICM-fellow and an ICRMOT re-search assistant at MIT Sloan School of Management. He was a Fulbright-Hays post-doctoral fellow at MIT in 1991-1992. Since 1992, he was for two years an assistant pro-fessor at Erasmus University Rotterdam before becoming an NFWO-Post-Doctoral Re-searcher in 1993. In 1995, he became professor at KU Leuven where he teaches Tech-nology and Innovation Management. In 1999, he became the managing director of KU Leuven Research & Development, the technology transfer office of KU Leuven. He has been a promotor and recipient of various research grants by IWT (Flanders), FWO (Belgium & Flanders), DWTC (Belgium), EC (Euro-pean Commission) and OECD in the areas of innovation management and policy. He is promotercoordinator-spokesperson of the Interuniversity Centre for R&D Monitoring of the Flemish government based at KU Leu-ven. He is also actively engaged in technology transfer activities as managing director of KU Leuven Research & Development and Chairman of the Gemma Frisius Fonds (the venture fund) of the KU Leuven. He is the co-founder and chairman of Leuven.Inc, the innovation network of Leuven high-tech entrepreneurs. He is a board member of IWT-Vlaanderen, the Flemish government agency that supports science and technology develop-ment in Flemish industry. Since 2005, he is the general manager of KU Leuven.

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Cornelis (Niels) Eldering is Technology Transfer Officer at the Technology Transfer Pro-gramme Office of the European Space Agency (ESA). His main responsibility is the ESA Business Incubation Centre (ESA BIC) programme. The primary aim of an ESA BIC is to provide support to entrepreneurs who wish to exploit space-based solutions into non-space markets. ESA has Business Incubation Centers in the UK, the Netherlands, Belgium, Germany, and Italy. Niels holds a Master of Science in Business Administration from the Rotterdam School of Management, is living in the Netherlands and working at ESTEC, the

European Space Research and Technology Centre in Noordwijk. Passionately engaged in the challenging proc-ess from exploration to exploitation of science & technology, he regularly provides presentations and interna-tional guest lectures such as to the CEMS international Master of Management. The main mission of the Tech-nology Transfer Programme is to strengthen the competitiveness of European Industry and to demonstrate the benefit of the European Space Programme to European citizens via the transferring of space technologies to non-space applications. The Technology Transfer Programme Office is responsible for defining the overall ap-proach and strategy for the transfer of space technologies applications and systems, including the incubation of start up companies and a related venture fund.

Katrien Mondt After an academic career in the field of medicines, Katrien has been in-volved in the development of research policy in the field of Education for the Flemish Community. Since January 2013 she is Director-General at Innoviris, the Brussels Institute for Science and Innovation

Mini Track Chairs

Dr Alina Badulescu is Professor of Economics and Economics of Tourism at the University of Oradea, Romania. She graduated from the Bucharest University of Economics and has a PhD in Economics from the Babes-Bolyai University in Cluj-Napoca. She has written numerous journal articles and books and supervised PhD theses in Economics. Her re-search interests include economics of entrepreneurship, sustainable entrepreneurship, and tourism policy and development.

Dr Liang Guo is assistant professor of management and BNP-KPMG Research chair of "business model and entrepreneurial innovation". He has published several articles in international journals including one in the Journal of Product & Innovation Manage-ment. His research focuses on business model, innovation, entrepreneurship and ven-

ture capital.

Dr Ella Henry is a Mori woman, one of the indigenous people of New Zealand, and a Senior Lecturer in Mori Development and Mori Media in Te Ara Poutama, the Faculty of Mori Development at Auckland University of Technology. She has an academic back-ground in Sociology, Mori Studies and Management Studies. Her Masters' thesis fo-cused on Mori women in management. In 2012 Ella completed a PhD which explored Mori entrepreneurship in screen production. Alongside her academic career Ella has been actively involved as a practitioner and activist in the development of the Mori

screen industry in New Zealand.

Dr Alexandros Kakouris is a part time lecturer in entrepreneurship and innovation at the University of Athens. He holds a Ph.D. in Physics and a M.Sc. in Adult Education. He has been involved in entrepreneurship research since 2006, involved mainly with educa-tional issues. His special interest concerns fostering of entrepreneurship and innovation to science graduates and support of youth entrepreneurship through counselling. He also specialises in nascent entrepreneurship and virtual business planning.

Dr Jun Li is a senior lecturer in Entrepreneurship at University of Essex. His research interests on entrepreneurship and innovation in emerging economies. Dr. Li has published in leading entrepreneurship journals, e.g. Entrepreneurship and Re-gional Development, and edited several special issues on entrepreneurship in emerging economies. Dr. Li is co-editor of Journal of Chinese Entrepreneurship.

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Dr Yipeng Liu is a lecturer in Entrepreneurship at University of Kent. His research inter-ests centre on entrepreneurship and institutions, global talent management and business sustainability with a focus on emerging economies. Dr. Liu has published in Thunderbird International Business Review, Promethus: Critical Studies in Innovation, among others.

Dr Ke Rong is a lecturer in strategy at the business School of Bournemouth University. Ke got the PhD degree from University of Cambridge and obtained Bachelor degree in Tsinghua University. His research interests include business ecosystems, frugal innova-tion, and emerging industries and economies.

Ann-Charlotte Teglborg is a research professor at Novancia, Paris Business School. She is an early and active member of the European Employee driven innovation Research Net-work: EDI-Europe. She is also administrator of the French professional association In-novacteurs dedicated to employee driven innovation in French private and public sector.

Milan Todorovic is a Professor of Entrepreneurship and Innovation, Corporate Entrepreneurship and Organisational Changes at Union Nikola Tesla University in Belgrade, Serbia. He holds a MBA from Melbourne Business School and has extensive international experience across diverse industries and government enterprises encom-passing lecturing, management consulting, business development, directorships and suc-cessful management of global, mission critical business systems for leading international companies. During his career he has combined his significant professional experience and

leadership skills with excellent knowledge of business strategy to conduct consulting assignments and deliver strategic projects worldwide. Currently, he is involved in several research projects including how public policies impact on innovation and entrepreneurship.

Doan Winkel is an Assistant Professor of Entrepreneurship at Illinois State University and Associate Director of Programs at The George R. and Martha Means Center for Entrepre-neurial Studies. His research has been published in the New England Journal of Entrepre-neurship, the Journal of Entrepreneurship Education, the Journal of Occupational and Organizational Psychology, Human Resource Management, and the Journal of Business Ethics. He is co-founder of SproutEcon, LLC and One Virtual Business Coach, Inc

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Biographies of Presenting Authors

Dr. Hadia H. Abdel Aziz is an Assistant Professor of Entrepreneurship and Innovation Management at the German University in Cairo. She has vast practical experience in the areas of SME financing, financial innova-tion and entrepreneurship which also constitute her main research interests.

Dr. Tuomo Alasoini coordinates workplace innovation and development activities in Tekes (the Finnish Fund-ing Agency for Technology and Innovation). He is Adjunct Professor of Sociology at the University of Helsinki and director of Tekes programme Liideri Business, Productivity and Joy at Work. He is an active member of the European Workplace Innovation Network EUWIN.

Versavia Ancusa received her PhD degree in 2009 from POLITEHNICA University of Timisoara, in Computer Science. She is currently a Senior Lecturer at the Department of Computers, Faculty of Automation and Computers, POLITEHNICA University of Timisoara, Romania. Dr. Ancusas main research interests are affective computing, fault tolerance and reliability, complex networks.

Robert B. Anderson is a Professor of entrepreneurship with the University of Regina. He has authored or co-authored more than 150 peer-reviewed articles (more than 40 of these refereed journal articles) on economic development and entrepreneurship, two books on the subject and co-authored of a third, and co-edited of a handbook research on indigenous entrepreneurship.

Petra Andries (petra.andries@kuleuven.be) is a senior researcher at the Centre for R&D Monitoring (KU Leu-ven). Her research interests are in innovation management and entrepreneurship in general, with a particular interest in new venture development, collaborative innovation and knowledge management.

Paula Anzola Romn, BA, MBA is a Researcher/contributor at the Department of Business Administration at Public University of Navarra. Her research has been focused in Open Innovation and Business Models.

Mara Teresa Areitio, PhD is University Professor at Department of Industrial Economics at the University of Basque Country, Spain. She has managed some research projects and she has contributed to scholar area with articles and books. Her current work focuses on knowledge management, TICs and innovation in the EHEA and international economy. Manuel Lus Au-Yong Oliveira earned a distinction for his PhD degree in Industrial Engineering and Management from the University of Porto and is currently a part-time lecturer both at the University of Aveiro and at the University of Porto. Manuel is affiliated to INESC TEC.

Alina Badulescu is Professor of Economics and PhD coordinator at the Faculty of Economics and Doctoral School in Social Sciences of the University of Oradea, Romania. She graduated Bucharest University of Econom-ics and since she has authored and co-authored numerous journal articles and books. Her interests include economics, but promoting young researchers activity as well.

Daniel Badulescu graduated Bucharest University of Economic Studies and has a PhD in Economics. He is Asso-ciate Professor in Business Economics and Business Financing at the Department of Economics, University of Oradea, Romania. His current research interests include economics, business economics and business finance.

Olimpia-Iuliana Ban Ph.D. in Marketing, West University of Timisoara, Romania, 2005. Now is associate profes-sor and Head of Economy Departament at University of Oradea.

Fernando Barbosa is an invited lecturer in the Department of Production and Systems Engineering at the Engi-neering School of the University of Minho. He holds a B.Sc. in Management from Portucalense University, and an M.Sc. in Industrial Engineering from the University of Minho. He is a Business Consultant and Trainer in sev-eral organizations.

Bartomiej J.Gabry is Assistant Professor at Chair in Entrepreneurship at the University of Economics in Ka-towice, Poland. He received his Ph.D. in corporate entrepreneurship. His present research focuses in the area

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of corporate entrepreneurship and growth. His research were presented at EURAM, BAM, AOM, ISBE, RENT conferences or published by Wolters/Kluver and Routledge.

Muamer Bezdrob is a cofounder and director of the PING ltd. Sarajevo. He graduated at the Faculty of Electri-cal Engineering in Sarajevo, where he was an assistant professor. He earned his MSc and his PhD at the School of Economics and Business in Sarajevo. Muamer lives in Sarajevo with his wife and their son.

Razvan Bogdan received his PhD degree in 2009 from POLITEHNICA University of Timisoara, in Computer Sci-ence. He is currently Senior Lecturer at the Department of Computers, Faculty of Automation and Computers, POLITEHNICA University of Timisoara, Romania. Dr. Bogdans main research interests are in dependability of computer systems, human-machine interfaces, embedded systems, complex networks.

Katarzyna Bratnicka, is Ph.D. student at the University of Economics in Katowice, Poland. She received her Master degree in human resources management. Her present research focuses in the area of corporate entre-preneurship and creativity. Her research was presented at EURAM, BAM, AOM and ISBE conferences.

Mariusz Bratnicki, is a Professor in management and holds the position of head of Chair in Entrepreneurship at the University of Economics in Katowice, Poland. His present research focuses on the area of corporate entre-preneurship, creativity and organizational performance. His research were presented at EURAM, BAM, AOM, ISBE, RENT conferences or published by Routledge.

Dorota Bueno da Silva is Ph.D. Student in Industrial and Systems Engineering at the Production and Systems Department, School of Engineering, University of Minho, Portugal. She obtained a Master degree in Industrial Engineering at the Production Engineering Pos-Graduate Department, Paraba Federal University, Brazil after graduating in Psychology at the Paulistana University, Brazil. The theme of her doctoral research is evaluation of innovation programs for SME, with a special focus on the evaluation of their indirect effects.

Cagri Bulut is Associate Professor of Management, Ambassador of ENT-Division, of Academy of Management to Turkey, and Chair of Department of Business Administration, Faculty of EAS, Yasar University, Turkey.

Alex Lbo Carlos is a Brazilian Navy Officer, born in Rio de Janeiro in 1974. He graduates in Nautical Sciences and postgraduates in economics. Currently he is completing a Master in Management at the University of Minho, Portugal.

Lusa Carvalho: Professor of Economics, Entrepreneurship and Innovation. Department of Economics and Management, Business School Setbal Polytechnic Institute Portugal since 1999. Researcher in CEFAGE University of vora- Portugal. PhD in management, McS in economics. Author of several publications in na-tional and international journals and book chapters.

Pr. Annick Castiaux holds a PhD in Physics from the University of Namur and teaches innovation and technol-ogy management. Her research considers a systemic approach of innovation, trying to detect paradoxes that can lead to emergent technologies or business models. She focuses on agent-based simulations, to realise in silico experiments helping to understand innovation strategies.

Paula Castro is a Undergraduate Student, University of Sao Paulo, Brazil. Develop a international internship in Business School Setbal Polytechnic Institute during 1st semester of 2013.

Gulnara Chernobaeva is an Associate Professor and Post-doctoral Fellow at the Department of Innovation and Project Management, Omsk State University, Russia. She teaches several marketing courses. Her main re-search interest is marketing communications. Currently, she investigates marketing project support. Gulnara additionally has extensive experience of working as Head of Marketing at leading Omsk companies.

Dr Anneline Chetty completed a Masters in Town & Regional Planning and a PH.D with a focus on Public and Private sector approaches towards the provision of Business Development services for SMMEs in the eThek-wini Municipality. Authored the book: Promoting entrepreneurship in South Africa. Excellent understanding of Economic development issues globally.

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Piotr Chwastyk is a researcher and lecturer at The Opole University of Technology. His field of research are innovation processes especially cost estimation in processes planning of innovation. He received PhD title in 2006. He is a member of the Polish Society of Production Management, and since 2006 a member of the board.

Brian Cleland is a PhD candidate with the Ulster Business School, University of Ulster, where he is researching "Open Innovation Practices in the European Public Sector". He has over 20 years experience of working in the IT sector, and has recently been working as a researcher in the area of e-participation. He also acts as an advi-sor to SMEs, specialising in innovation and internet technologies.

Dorin Cristian Coita Ph.D in Marketing at Academy of Economic Sciences, Bucharest, Romania. Currently is associate professor and Head of Management and Marketing Department at University of Oradea. (Foto)

Jan Coppens obtained his Ph.D. in computer science engineering from Ghent University. He continued his re-search in network technology at Alcatel-Lucent Bell Labs. End 2007, he left Bell Labs to Join the Business Tech-nology Office of McKinsey & Company. Currently, Jan is responsible for marketing and business development at the iMinds Incubation & Entrepreneurship program.

Eliza Laura Cora field of work is credit risk management but during her eight year experience in the banking industry she has accumulated extensive knowledge on all banking processes and risks. She is currently advanc-ing her business risk knowledge and intrapreneuring experience by attending a PhD programme at the Acad-emy of Economic Studies in Bucharest. Her research is focused in risks in the innovation process and her prac-tical studies are aimed to open innovation practices.

Teresa Costa Professor of Management, Innovation and Entrepreneurship, Department of Economics and Management, Business School Setbal Polytechnic Institute Portugal s since 2001. Researcher in CITIS University of Lusada- Portugal. Phd in Management. McS in Management. Author of several publications in international and national journals and book chapters.

Renata Paola Dameri is professor in Accounting and in Information Systems at Faculty of Economics, Univer-sity of Genova, Italy. She is visiting professor in IT governance at the University of Paris-Dauphine. She is also member of the research Unit Information Systems at Bocconi School of Management.

Sven H. De Cleyn is Incubation Programs manager at iMinds, where he supports new start-ups. He received a PhD in Applied Economics at University of Antwerp on the early development of academic spin-offs. Hes also lecturer in entrepreneurship at Karel de Grote University College and post-doc researcher on high-tech entre-preneurship at University of Antwerp.

Ann De Keersmaecker is PhD student with a background in product development and industrial engineering. She is affiliated with the University of Antwerp, Belgium, and the Delft University of Technology, the Nether-lands. Her research interest lays in innovating in developing countries and inclusive design. Moreover, she coaches students and combines this job with consulting activities.

Stan De Spiegelaere is a researcher at the HIVA KULeuven (Research Institute for Work and Society). In this function he studies topics in innovative employee behavior, employee-driven innovation, labour regulation and industrial relations. He is also linked to the VIGOR innovation research group and is currently preparing a phd thesis on labour regulation and innovative behaviour of employees.

Edward Debelka - Educated at University of Oradea Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science in 1997.graduated from 3 courses. Worked in S.C. Unicert International Group, Oradea in 2005 as General Man-ager.

Jaroslava Ddkov, Ph.D is a lecturer at the Faculty of Economics, Technical University of Liberec. She gives lectures in Marketing, Consumer behaviour and Strategic marketing. She supervises baccalaureate and di-ploma works and acts as an opposer of diploma and baccalaureate works. In her scientific work, she deals with the competitiveness of companies located in the Euroregion Nisa.

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Nikolay A. Dentchev is an Assistant Professor of Entrepreneurship and Corporate Social Responsibility at the University of Brussels (VUB) and at HUBrussels. Currently, his research interests are related to sustainable business models, sustainable innovations, instrumental stakeholder management theory and the implementa-tion of CSR strategies.

Biagio Di Franco is a Phd Student, Politehnica University, Faculty of Management in Production and Transportation, Romania. Master Degree in Management of Innovations Polytechnics of Mons, Belgium . Master Degree in Management of Transports University of Brussels, Belgium. Master Degree in International Trade University of Brussels, Belgium. Degree in Sciences of Management - Catholic University of Mons, Belgium. Maier Dorin PhD student at The Bucharest University of Economic Studies, Bucharest, Romania. Maier hastwo BSc on engineering, an MSc degree in management and a PhD in Civil Engineering. Maier researches are ori-ented towards innovation and integrated management systems.

Frdric Dufays is a PhD-student at the Centre for Social Economy of HEC-ULg Management School in Liege (Belgium). His research interests are social entrepreneurship and collective entrepreneurship, which he analy-ses through social network and institutional theory lenses.

Dan Constantin Dumitrescu 1969- Politehnica University of Timisoara. 1999 PhD. Internships in universi-ties: 1991- Koln, 1992 - Siegen, 1997 - Tennessee . Own field of specialization: Quality Manufacturing Systems.

Smile Dzisi (PhD) is a Senior Lecturer in the School of Business and Management Studies at Koforidua Poly-technic. She is also the Managing Editor of the International Journal of Technology and Management Research. Her research and teaching interests are in Entrepreneurship, Innovation and Organizational Management.

Dr. Kalle Elfvengren is an associate professor in the School of Industrial Engineering and Management at Lap-peenranta University of Technology, Finland. His research topics include technology management, decision support systems (e.g. group support systems), decision analysis and creative group work methods.

Vtor Figueiredo is a Full PhD Student of Management at the University of Beira Interior, Department of Man-agement and Economics, Portugal. He studied Tourism Management and received his MSc in Tourism Man-agement and Development, from the Aveiro University in 2010. He is an enterprise Consultant and President of the Moledo Community Council, Portugal.

Luis Rafael Figueroa is an economist and a PhD student in Entrepreneurship and Innovation of the University of Essex, United Kingdom. His research interests and working experience are focused on business clusters and innovation in the case of SMEs in the agribusiness, tourism and textile-apparel activities in Latin America.

Rebecca Fill Giordano studied Psychology at the University of Vienna. As expert for occupational aptitude as-sessments she advises universities and business organisations on psychological assessment. Her team devel-opes online tools for analyses and feedback for different target groups. Her doctoral thesis (in progress) con-cerns self regulated learning in adults.

Mrio Franco is an Assistant Professor of Entrepreneurship and SME Administration at the Department of Management and Economics, Beira Interior University, Portugal. He received his PhD in Management from Beira Interior University in 2002. His research focuses on strategic alliances, business networks and entrepre-neurship. He is a member of the NECE-Research Unit in Business Sciences of the Beira Interior University.

Brendan Galbraith is a member of the European Network of Living Labs, University of Ulster Business and Management Research Institute, Connected Health Ulster and is Book Reviews Editor at Technology Analysis and Strategic Management Journal. Brendan has led several large-scale EC funded innovation and technology transfer projects and is a consultant to a number of SMEs.

Olaf Gaus a Research Associate in Entrepreneurship at the Faculty of Economics and Management, Otto-von-Guericke-University, Magdeburg, Germany, I am interested in the transferability of business models on public

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institutions. I am working on this subject as a member of a research project entitled "Universities as Enter-prises", funded by the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research.

Frank Gielen is Director Incubation & Entrepreneurship at iMinds, where he is responsible for all Incubation & Entrepreneurship activities. He holds a PhD in computer science from the Free University of Brussels. He is Professor at Ghent University, where he is teaching courses on software and technology entrepreneurship, and has entrepreneurial experience through several ventures. Patrick Gilbert is a professor at the Sorbonne Graduate Business School. He holds a PhD in Management and is an accredited research supervisor in management and psychology. He also serves as a scientific advisor to na-tional and international organizations.

Oleg Golichenko has a degree of Doctor of Economic Sciences. He is a chief research associate at the Central Economics and Mathematics Institute of the RAS. He is also a professor at the National Research University Higher School of Economics and the Moscow Physics and Technique Institute in Moscow, Russia. His research interests are related to investigation of innovation development processes on micro-macro economic levels and design of social economic and innovation policy. He is an author of more than 200 scientific publications.

Tea Golja, PhD Juraj Dobrila University of Pula, Department of Economics and Tourism Dr,Mijo Mirkovi . Tea Golja is holding a position of the Assistant Lecturer at Juraj Dobrila University of Pula. Major field of interest: management, corporate social responsibility, quality management, tourism and sustainable development. In 2012 she successfully finished an IRCA course for total quality management - Lead auditor for ISO 9001:2008 - by the Bureau Veritas in Croatia.

Dr. Gourova is Associate Professor at Sofia University and New Bulgarian University. She has professional ex-perience at Ministry of Transport and Communications, DG JRC IPTS, and in expert groups at European Com-mission, EUTELSAT, Council of Europe. Her research is cross-disciplinary focused on Knowledge management and open innovation, as well as on e-skills, e-Learning, mobility and career of researchers.

Roxana Hatos is a Ph.D. student at the Faculty of Economics Sciences, University of Oradea, working as junior researcher within the Center of Adult Education. She has BA in Sociology and Economics and MA in Regional Development and she has been involved in several research projects. Bart Henssen received his PhD in Applied Economics from Hasselt University, Belgium, and a PhD in Economics and Business Administration from Jyvskyl University, Finland. He is Research Manager at the University Col-lege Brussels and affiliated with the KIZOK Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation of Hasselt University. His research interests include entrepreneurial processes in family businesses.

Julie Hermans holds a Degree in Management Engineering from the University of Namur where she also pur-sued her Ph.D. Her research interests are in University-industry collaborations, Innovation networks and ambi-tious entrepreneurship. She recently became a postdoctoral researcher for the Belgian Science Policy Office in collaboration with the University of Antwerp, Tilburg University and the Eindhoven University of Technology.

Heyin Hou is an associate professor at the School of Economics and Management, Southeast University, China. Heyin got the Ph. D from Antai College of Economics & Management, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China at 2004. And main research interests at present include: Venture Capital, Entrepreneurship, Technology Business Incubator(TBI), Technovation.

Danut Iorga is PhD student at Doctoral School of Entrepreneurship, Business Engineering and Management, UPB, Romania. He earned a bachelors degree in Avionics, Aeronautics Faculty, UPB, Romania. ASQ senior member, Danut Iorga is certified as Six Sigma Black Belt, with more than 200 Improvement and Design Projects in companies such as NCH Group and Accenture.

Mark James, Ph.D. is an assistant professor of management a United International College in Zhuhai, China. He received his Ph.D. in organizational behavior from the University of Wisconsin Milwaukee. His research focuses on issues relating to diversity and fairness in the workplace, and global perspectives on entrepreneur-ship.

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Chandana Jayawardena - BSc (Hons), MBA. is presently a doctoral researcher attached to the Department of Management and Marketing, Faculty of Management and Economics, Tomas Bata University in Zlin, Czech Republic. His research interests focus on Career Development, Managerial Competencies, and Employees Be-haviour at work. He is an academic staff member of the University of Peradeniya, Sri Lanka

Jan Jonker is a Professor of Corporate Sustainability at the Nijmegen School of Management of the Radboud University Nijmegen (The Netherlands). His research interest are in sustainable strategy development, (new) business models and transition thinking.

Magdalena Jurczyk-Bunkowska studied production management at Warsaw University of Technology, where she received a PhD title in 2004. Currently, she works at Opole University of Technology as a researcher and lecturer. She was a member of Polish Academy of Science. Now, her fields of research and interest are innova-tion management especially operational approach covering innovation process planning.

Ravinder Singh Kahlon is a PhD student at Ulster University. His research interest surrounds KM Strategies and Systems, especially in performance measurement metrics and critical success factors implementing KM within organisations. He works with IT consultancies that specialises in top-quality innovative IT Solutions, to enable KM within organisations.

Tomasz Kijek, PhD in Economics conducts teaching and research activities in the Department of Economics and Management at the University of Life Sciences in Lublin, Poland. His research interests focus on innovation, innovation capital, knowledge and a firms competitiveness. He is the author and co-author of several scientific publications, including chapters of monographs and articles.

Beti Kostadinovska Dimitrovska, a Ph.D. student at the Faculty of Economics-Skopje, works as a Project officer in the European Information and Innovation Centre in Macedonia within the Ss. Cyril and Methodius University in Skopje. Beti is responsible for the research and innovative component providing innovative, R&D and IPR services to SMEs and academia sector.

Eric Michael Laviolette Associate Professor of Strategy and Entrepreneurship at Novancia Business School, Paris with a doctoral degree in Management at University of Lyon. His research builds on organizational and management theories to analyse entrepreneurial processes within innovation systems. He has published sev-eral papers on spin-offs, incubators, entrepreneurial skills & leadership development and international entre-preneurship.

Regina Leite is an Assistant Professor in organizational behaviour and HRM in the School of Economics and Management at the University of Minho. She received the PhD degree in management from de University of Minho. Her current research interests include work and non-work spheres, organizational commitment, pri-vacy issues, sexual harassment, change and innovation.

Bart Leten is Assistant Professor in Innovation Management at the Vlerick Business School and the KU Leuven (MSI department). His research focuses on corporate innovation and international business strategies, and deals with various topics such as open innovation, IP strategies, industry-science links, R&D internationaliza-tion and organizing for innovation.

Sophie Linart is a 4th year PhD student in Management Science from the University of Namur, Belgium. Un-der the supervision of Pr. Dr. Annick Castiaux, she is researching the integration of energy efficiency require-ments into the innovation process of information technology products and services, and its impact on business strategy.

Raimonda Liepia, Mg.oec., Lecturer of Riga Technical University, Faculty of Engineering Economics and Man-agement, Department of Quality Technologies. Almost 10 year experience as Head of Conformity Assessment Coordination Division in the Internal Market Department of the Ministry of Economics of the Republic of Lat-via. Area of research interests: conformity assessment, among them standardization, accreditation, metrology.

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Eric Liguori is an assistant professor in the department of management at California State University Fresno. He received his Ph.D. in entrepreneurship from Louisiana State University. His primary teaching interests are entrepreneurship and taking an experiential approach to his classroom. His research focuses on small busi-ness, family business, and entrepreneurship

Dr Jun Li is Senior Lecturer at the Essex Business School of University of Essex, UK. He was President of Chinese Economic Association (UK/Europe) during 2011-2012 and is Co-Editor of Journal of Chinese Entrepreneurship. His recent publication includes Chinas Economic Dynamics (Routledge, 2013).

Mara Jesus Luengo PhD is Associate Professor at Department of Management Evaluation and Business Inno-vation, at the University Of Pas Vasco Spain. She has managed some research projects and she has contrib-uted to scholar area with articles and books. Her current work focuses on knowledge management, intellectual capital and innovation in the regional areas and political quality in the EHEA. And organizational behaviour.

Sabrina Luthfa Karim is a doctoral candidate in University of Halmstad, Sweden. Her research interest is to investigate how multinational firms manage business relationships with their partners. She has completed her MSc. in International Business from Gothenburg University, Sweden and BSc. in Industrial Marketing from Uni-versity of Skvde, Sweden.

Andreea Maier is PhD student in the Research Center for Engineering and Management of Innovation (RESIN), Department of Engineering Design and Robotics, Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, Technical University of Cluj Napoca. She has two BSc, engineering and economics, and a MSc degree in management. As member of RESIN, her researches are oriented towards innovation management systems.

Anna Matras-Bolibok holds PhD in Economics and she conducts teaching and research activities in the De-partment of Economics and Management at the University of Life Sciences in Lublin, Poland. Her research in-terests focus on innovations, determinants of innovativeness of enterprises and economies and the role of innovation in regional development

Cline Maximin-Tieu is awarded with a PhD in Economics (University Paris 1 Panthon-Sorbonne), Cline Marie Maximin-Tieu is currently an academic teacher at ISTEC Paris business school, in charge of research link-ing sustainable development and industrial organization. Author of several chapters in books on this subject, she studies the feasibility of these features through her teaching and research.

Patrick McHugh is Director of the IE Brown EMBA program and lecturer in entrepreneurship at Brown Univer-sity. He has 25 years of industry experience and degrees in engineering from Columbia University, an M.B.A. from Harvard, and a Ph.D. from Bentley University. His research interests are in the areas of innovation, en-trepreneurship, and social networks.

Petra Merenheimo is doctoral student at the University of Lapland, Finland. Her doctoral thesis is about en-trepreneurship at the Finnish social services sector. She has done research about and development work with female entrepreneurs both in Finland and Germany.

Ioana Teodora Meter is Ph.D. in Economics - Cybernetics, Statistics and Economic Informatics. Member of the Department of Economics, Faculty of Economic Sciences, University of Oradea, Romania. Specialist in Statistics, Econometrics and Economic modelling. Interest domains: quantitative methods applied in business admini-stration.

Jos M. Monteiro-Barata is an Assistant Professor of Economics, R&D Management and Industrial Organiza-tion at the School of Economics and Management of the Technical University of Lisbon, (ISEG/UTL). PhD in Economics (1996) from the UTL. Former Vice-President of ISEG/UTL. Coordinator of Graduate and Post-Graduate courses at the Portuguese School of Bank Management (APB).

Peter W. Moroz, Ph.D., MPA, B.A. Primarily teaches entrepreneurship and economics related courses. Re-search interests include process theory in entrepreneurship, regional and economic development, technology transfer and social enterprise creation. Peter currently holds a SSHRC grant that focuses on strategic alliances

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among corporations and Indigenous communities and how they may be used to facilitate the creation of joint and wholly owned new ventures by Indigenous peoples.

Eda Evla Mutlu is a PhD Candidate and Research Assistant in Faculty of EAS of Yasar University, zmir, Turkey.

Murat Nazl is a PhD Candidate and Part-time Lecturer in Faculty of EAS of Yasar University, Turkey.

Daniel Neicu is currently a doctoral student in Business Economics at KU Leuven and HU Brussels. His general research interests are behavioural economics, game theory, and innovation economics, while focusing on more specific issues such as clustering of young innovative companies and the competitive behaviour of inno-vative firms.

Sandra Nunes: President of Department of Economics and Management, Business School of Setbal Polytech-nic Institute, Portugal. Professor of Analysis of Statistical Data; Statistic; Quantitative Methods and Mathemat-ics. Professor in Setbal Polytechnic Institute since 1995. Researcher in CMA Faculty of Sciences and Tech-nology, New University of Lisbon, Portugal. PhD in Mathematics - Statistics, McS in Actuarial Sciences. Author of several publications in national and international journals.

Mara Obeso, PhD, is Assistant Professor at Department of Business Administration at the University of Canta-bria, Spain. She has been Visiting Scholar in Business School at the University of Bedfordshire, UK. Her current work focuses on knowledge management

Handan Odaman, M.A. graduated from Boazii University, Department of Psychology with a High Honor de-gree and specialized in Cognitive Psychology. She attended national and international meetings with various research projects. She works as academic executive assistant in Balta Group and she is responsible from aca-demic studies. Odaman is a member of Turkish Psychological Association.

Iuliana Olimpia. Ph.D. in Marketing, West University of Timisoara, Romania, 2005. Now is associate professor and Head of Economy Departament at University of Oradea. Morena Paulii is a senior assistant at the University of Pula. She holds a PhD degree in organization and management. Her research interests include organization and management especially factors as structural components, business processes and strategies that have influence on organizational behavior. She is also a member of IMSS - research network of business schools.

Ruslan Pavlov is a senior researcher at the Central Economics and Mathematics Institute, and post graduated from the same institution. His research interests include the diversification of business within a context of the long waves theory; institutions of social entrepreneurship as factors of social innovations.

Steen Hyrup Pedersen is Associate Professor and member of the Research Programme Organisation and Learning in the Department of Education, Aarhus University, Campus Copenhagen, Denmark. He is engaged in the management of the EDI-network: The European network of Employee-Driven Innovation and workplace learning. Research interests include employee-driven innovation, competence development and reflection and learning. Andreas Pinkwart was a Member of the German Bundestag (2002 - 2005) and Minister for Innovation, Sci-ence, Research and Technology as well as Deputy Prime Minister of the state of North Rhine-Westphalia (2005 - 2010). Since 2011 Professor Pinkwart is the Dean at HHL Leipzig Graduate School of Management and holds the Stiftungsfonds Deutsche Bank Chair for Innovation Management and Entrepreneurship.

Dr. Sebastian Pfotenhauer is a researcher at the MIT Technology Policy Program, the MIT Portugal Program, and the Program Science, Technology and Society at the Harvard Kennedy School. His research focuses on strategies for capacity building in science, innovation, and higher education; international university collabora-tions and start-up universities, and the governance of complex socio-technical systems. Karla Phlypo- Walden University-President of PK & Associates Inc.expertise is social innovation. Integrating a background in knowledge management, her research has led to models for Open Communities of Practice

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(OCoP) and for-profit bridging organizations. As Global Knowledge Manager for GM Engineering, she contrib-uted to a culture of sharing and innovation through collaboration. Karla is active in the international KM pro-fessional community. Adalberto Rangone in 2010, he graduated with a Master's degree from the University of Oradea (Romania) at the Faculty of Economics Science in International Economic Relations and now he is a PhD Student in Econom-ics at the University G.D'Annunzio of Chieti-Pescara (Italy) and at the University of Oradea (Romania).

Pia Mulvad Reksten, Union Advisor, industrial, innovation & research policy, LO (Danish Confederation of Trade Unions). Elaborates innovation policy recommendations ensuring that national og regional innovation policies take into account the role of non-academic employees (employee-driven innovation) and a more prac-tical form of innovation, where companies draw one inputs from the markets, customers, users and employ-ees. Andreas Pinkwart was a Member of the German Bundestag (2002 - 2005) and Minister for Innovation, Sci-ence, Research and Technology as well as Deputy Prime Minister of the state of North Rhine-Westphalia (2005 - 2010). Since 2011 Professor Pinkwart is the Dean at HHL Leipzig Graduate School of Management and holds the Stiftungsfonds Deutsche Bank Chair for Innovation Management and Entrepreneurship.

Dr. Angela Poulakidas is an Assistant Professor of international business development and entrepreneurship at Novancia Business School Paris. Dr. Poulakidas professional publications include articles related to market-ing, international business and entrepreneurship. Her research interests include corporate reputation, interna-tional shipping, entrepreneurship and strategies for effective teaching.

Dorian Proksch has joined HHL Leipzig Graduate School of Management as a research associate at the Chair of Innovation Management and Entrepreneurship in 2011, where he is currently writing his doctoral thesis in the area of early stage venture capital funds. His research interests include Internationalization of startup compa-nies and risk management in new venture financing.

Aneta Ptak-Chmielewska is Associate Professor at the Institute of Statistics and Demography at Warsaw School of Economy. Her main research fields include applied statistics, event history methods and models, multivariate statistics and advanced statistics application in economy and life sciences. She has been a mem-ber of the Network of Excellence RECWOWE project. She has published in high-quality national journals.

Nathalie Raulet-Croset is Associate Professor in organizational theory at the IAE, University Paris 1-Sorbonne. She is also researcher at the PREG-CRG of the Ecole Polytechnique. Her research interests are on inter-organizational collective work, on the emergence of actor's practices, on territories and spaces considering their impact on collective work and organizations.

Carla Riverola is a PhD candidate at La Salle Innova Institute Ramon Llull University. She holds a Computer Science Degree and Master of Science in IT Management from La Salle Ramon Llull University in Barcelona. Her research interests are mainly focused on studying the role that ICT may play on Innovation and Entrepre-neurship.

Augusto Rocha "Master in Entrepreneurship and Business Creation at the University of Beira Interior, Portugal. Graduated in Business Processes from the University of Uberaba (Brazil) and in Computer Science from the Federal University of Uberlandia (Brazil). My research focuses on business innovation, entrepreneurship edu-cation and corporate entrepreneurship in technology-based companies."

Cristina Rodrigues holds a Ph.D. in Industrial and Systems Engineering. Assistant Professor in the Department of Production and Systems, School of Engineering at the University of Minho and is responsible for disciplines of applied statistics in undergraduate and master engineering courses. She is also a researcher fellow at Algo-ritmi R&D Centre.

Fernando Romero holds a Ph.D. in Science and Technology Studies from the University of Manchester. He is at the Production and Systems Engineering Department, and at the Centre for Research in Industrial and Tech-

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nology Management, in the University of Minho. He publishes regularly in the area of Industrial Innovation, Innovation Systems and innovation management.

Tarek Sadek, MASc. is the Enterprise Development Manager at Xerox Centre for Engineering Entrepreneurship & Innovation (XCEEi) at McMaster University. His job responsibilities include supporting the students in their new venture creation and establishing XCEEi as an entrepreneurship hub in the region.

Josune Senz is PhD in Economics and Business Administration and Vice Dean of Research at Deusto Business School (DBS). Her publications mainly focus on measurement of intangibles, intellectual capital, knowledge management and innovation. She has also carried out research into the link between emotions, expectations and behaviour in change processes.

Svetlana Samovoleva graduated from the Economics Faculty of Moscow State University and received PhD in the Central Economics and Mathematics Institute of the RAS where she is a senior research associate. During the last 10 years her research is organized around a set of issues associated with frameworks of national inno-vation system, risks of innovation activities, innovation policy at state and enterprise levels.

Mijalce Santa is a Teaching Assistant at the Ss. Cyril and Methodius University, Faculty of Economics-Skopje and a PhD student at University Paris 1 - Pantheon Sorbonne. His research interest is in the area of e-business, transformation, learning organizations, innovation and change.

Amitrajit Sarkar is a lecturer of Software Engineering and Information Systems at Christchurch Polytechnic Institute of Technology, New Zealand. Beside IS resilience, his research interests include Innovation and Entre-preneurship in IS, E-Commerce implementation in SMEs, E-Commerce trust, Big Data, and ERP implementa-tion.

Ted Sarmiento is Senior Lecturer at the Business School of Leeds Metropolitan University, Leeds, England and is currently researching small business performance management as part of a DBA programme. As keen ama-teur cyclist taking part in Cyclo-Cross, Time Trial and Sportive events Ted also has a small business interest in a holiday let in Northumberland.

NicoletaTrandafir Scurt, phd-s of Faculty of Management in Production and Transportation. Research areas: industrial engineering. Diplomas: Engineer of Politehnica University of Timioara, (1986) and Economist Uni-versity of Craiova (1994). Books written: 3,Articles published: 32, Research contracts, including grants: 4.

Janet L Sernack After 30 years of consulting experience to the manufacturing, retailing, finance and telecom-munications businesses to Australias and Israels top 100 companies as Compass Learning Pty Ltd, Janet relo-cated to Israel, where she joined the Start-Up revolution, and founded ImagineNation, an imaginative, genera-tive and provocative global learning company that develops innovative and entrepreneurial leaders.

Denisa Skrbkov is a student student at the Technical University of Liberec Economical Faculty - Business Economics. Last year, she finished the Bachelor degree at the University of Huddersfield in the frame of one-year exchange programme and than she retain the title at the Technical University of Liberec - Economical Faculty - Management of international Trade.

Aziz unje, PhD. in Business is Full Professor at School of Economics and Business, University of Sarajevo and Chair of Department of Management and Organization, lecturing different courses in the country and abroad. Dr. unje has published as author and co-author five books, and a lot of scientific papers in academic journals and conference proceedings.

Dr Anna Sacio Szymanska A senior research scientist at Innovation Strategies Department of the Institute for Sustainable Technologies NRI, Radom, Poland. Interested in long-term strategic thinking; analysing the rela-tionships between innovation, strategy and foresight; designing foresight methodologies; evaluating and put-ting foresight results into practice.

Ann-Charlotte Teglborg is research professor at Novancia, Paris Business School. She is an early and active member of the European Employee driven innovation Research Network: EDI-Europe. She is also administrator

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of the French professional association Innovacteurs dedicated to employee driven innovation in French private and public sector.

Ioana Teodora Meter is Ph.D. in Economics - Cybernetics, Statistics and Economic Informatics. Member of the Department of Economics, Faculty of Economic Sciences, University of Oradea, Romania. Specialist in Statistics, Econometrics and Economic modelling. Interest domains: quantitative methods applied in business admin-istration.

Man-Chie Tse is a PhD student. Her research focus surrounds engineering methods for analysis of intangible modelling properties in personal KM, strategic organisational design and development. Besides her research work, she is involved with exploring the practical application of new processes, methods, tools and techniques in organisations to achieve innovation and transformational change.

Nazlihan Ugur enrolled University of Leuven, Managerial Economics, Strategy and Innovation (MSI) in 2011 as a full time PhD student and she is writing her PhD thesis on Ambidextrous Organizations: Temporal and struc-tural balances between exploitation and exploration under the supervision of Prof. Rene Belderbos and Prof Bart Leten.

Barbara Unkovi, joined the University team after working for international companies such as Deloitte, cover-ing Human Capital Advisory Services; also with experience as Branch Manager at Adecco employment agency; Won a masters degree in international trade and the field of her research interest considers human resources, services, visual learning tools and international research projects.

Jiro Usugami is a Professor of Management at Aoyama Gakuin University, Japan. He received his Ph.D from the George Washington University, USA. He teaches international business and management at Aoyama Gakuin University.