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Antonio Toma holds a PhD in Technology Innovation and Entrepreneurship at the University of Salento, Lecce, Italy and now is an R&D Manager at San Raffaele Hospital in Milan, Italy. His research relates to entrepreneurship, high-tech enterprises and IP strategies. He is also a practitioner for companies and research bodies in several collaborative research programs.

Giustina Secundo is Senior Researcher in Management Engineering at the University of Salento (Italy). Her research is characterized by a cross-disciplinary focus, with a major interest toward knowledge assets management, innovation management and knowledge-intensive entrepreneurship. She has been scientific responsible of several education and research projects held in partnership with leading academic and industrial partners. Her research activities have been documented in about 150 international papers. Her research appeared in Technovation, Journal of Business Research, Technological Forecasting & Social Change, Journal of Intellectual Capital, Knowledge Management Research & Practices and Journal of Knowledge Management. She is a Lecturer of Project Management at the Faculty of Engineering of the University of Salento since 2001. She is a member of the Project Management Institute. Across 2014 and 2015, she has been a Visiting Researcher at the Innovation Insights Hub, University of the Arts London (UK).

Giuseppina Passiante is a Full Professor of Innovation Management and Technology Entrepreneurship at the University of Salento. Currently her research fields concern technology entrepreneurship, and more specifically the experiential learning environment encouraging enterprise and entrepreneurship capabilities, skills, and competencies. She is also expert in knowledge-based organizations and local systems, ITs and clusters approach, complexity in economic systems. In these research fields she has published several books and about 100 papers. She is an Associate Editor of the International Journal of Innovation and Technology Management and a Coordinator of the International PhD programs on Technology Innovation and Entrepreneurship at the University of Salento (Italy).