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Giustina Secundo, is an Full Professor in Management Engineering at University LUM Giuseppe Degennaro (Bari, Italy). She has been the Director and Project Manager for the Contamination Lab at University of Salento (Lecce, Italy). She teaches Digital Transformation and Project Management. She is the Director of the Master in Digital transformation of the Public Administration at University LUM (Bari). Her research regards the digital transformation of the Academic entrepreneurship, Technology Entrepreneurship and Open Innovation. She received several awards for her research activities, such as, the Emerald Literati award, the best papers award and the highly commended award from Emerald. Across the 2014–2015 she has been visiting research at the Innovation Insights Lab at University of the Arts London (UK).

Gioconda Mele PhD, is a research fellow at the Department of Engineering for Innovation – University of Salento (Italy). After a degree in Economics at University of Salento, she took her Master degree in “Business Innovation and Leadership” and her PhD in “e-business” at eBMS-ISUFI. She is involved in different research projects related to internet-based model of services for regional tourism destination since 2005. Recently, she is also actively involved in research projects related to the topics of technology-based entrepreneurship by focusing on understanding the role of entrepreneurial universities and centers for developing skills and competencies as well as for economic growth of the territory.

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 an 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 Full Editor of the International Journal of Innovation and Technology Management and coordinator of the International PhD programs on Technology Innovation and Entrepreneurship at University of Salento (Italy).

Francesco Albergo, PhD in Business Economics (SECS/P07), from the Faculty of Economics of Lecce, University of Salento, is an OPERATIONAL DIRECTOR at LUM University since 2012. He is also a LECTURER of “Risk Management and Control of Healthcare Companies” and “Management Control and Activity Based Costing”, at the Department of Management, Finance and Technology of University LUM as well as Lecturer in Public Administration and Healthcare in several Master courses of the School of Management of the LUM University. In the School of Management, he is the DIRECTOR of the Laboratory “Management Control and Activity Based Costing (ABC)” at LUM University and Scientific Director and Coordinator of several University Masters Courses. He is the author of several publications in the health sector. He is also a Member of the Steering Committee of the Safety in Healthcare Foundation.