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Vahid Jafari-Sadeghi is a Lecturer in Strategy in the School of Strategy and Leadership at Coventry University. Vahid holds his PhD in international Vahid entrepreneurship from the University of Turin where he has served as a post-doctoral fellow for one year. Also, he has been a visiting research scholar at the University of Regina and contributed to different research projects with various scholars and universities. Vahid has published papers in several international journals and publications such as Journal of Business Research, International Business Review, Journal of International Entrepreneurship, Research in International Business and Finance and International Journal of Entrepreneurship and Small Business. He acted as guest editor and reviewer for several academic journals and performed as track chair and presenter for a number of international conferences.

Dev K. Dutta is an Associate Professor of Strategic Management and Entrepreneurship in the Management Department at the University of New Hampshire. His research and teaching focus at the intersection of entrepreneurship and innovation, especially the ways these concepts apply at the firm and ecosystem levels. Dev has over twenty-five research publications in his field in peer-reviewed journals as well as several books and research monographs. He also holds national certifications as an academic and executive coach in technology entrepreneurship, innovator mind-set, and design thinking. Before joining academia, Dev worked for fifteen years as a corporate strategy consultant in some of the very large Indian IT multinationals.

Alberto Ferraris is a Senior Researcher at the University of Turin–Department of Management. He is also Research Fellow of the Laboratory for International and Regional Economics, Graduate School of Economics and Management, Ural Federal University (Russia). He is an Associate Member (AM-EMAB) of the EuroMed Research Business Institute. He is member of the EuroMed Research Business Institute Research Group on “Multinational enterprises and corporate governance” since 2012. He is author of several academic and scientific articles published on international journal such as Journal of Business Research, R&D Management, Technological Forecasting and Social Change and Multinational Business Review. He won the “Emerald/EMRBI Business Research Award for Emerging Researchers” in 2015.

Manlio Del Giudice is Full Professor of Management at the University of Rome “Link Campus”. He holds a PhD in Marketing and Management at the University of Milano-Bicocca and he is affiliated as Professor of Management and Entrepreneurship at the Paris School of Business, in Paris (France), and as Principal Investigador, at the University of Murcia, in Murcia (Spain). He serves as Director for Research and Scholarly Relations within the Euromed Business Research Institute, where he is Senior Fellow as well. He is the author of about 100 international scientific publications (including 12 monographs); his researches have been published on flagship peer-reviewed journals. He act as Editor in Chief of Journal of Knowledge Management. He holds key positions (Editor, Senior Associate Editor, Associate Editor) in several international scientific journals on management and he served as Guest Editor for mainstream journal He has active collaborations with over 60 universities around the world (including George Washington University, Stanford University, Harvard Business School, University of Cambridge, Vu University Amsterdam, Mississippi State University, Twente University, University of West Scotland, Waikato University New Zealand, King's College, United Arab Emirates University, Indian Institute of Technology, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, and University of Beijing). He has held key roles on the boards of public and private consortiums and companies within the fields of avionics, advanced biotechnologies, nutraceuticals, bio-composting technologies, ICT, publishing. He has been a promoter / tutor of more than 30 spin offs in the fields of biotech, renewable energy and agribusiness. He is currently serving as Expert Evaluator for the Campania Region, for the National Research Council of Norway and for the European Commission in the areas of marketing, technological innovation and internationalization.