Life cycle analysis of Brazilian startups: characteristics, intellectual capital, agents and associated risks

Marcelo Henrique Gomes Couto, Student of the Master's Program in Administration of the Faculty of Economics, Administration and Accounting (FEA) of the University of São Paulo (USP) and participant in the Research Group on Corporate Rich Management (FEA/USP). He holds a Bachelor's degree in Biological Sciences from the Federal University of Lavras (UFLA-MG) and from the Federal Institute of Education, Science and Technology of Minas Gerais (IFMG-Bambuí). He also holds a post-graduate degree in Marketing Management from the SENAC University Center (SENAC-SP). Has academic experiences related to research areas in entrepreneurship, innovation, risk management and strategy. Professionally, in addition to experience in administrative functions of small and large companies, he developed activities related to human and organizational counseling, consulting and development, acting as a Coach (IBC-BR), Facilitator and Consultant at Startup Kazullo, where he was the Idealizer and Co-founder. During six months, he also taught classes for the Administration course at the Higher School of Environment (ESMA).

Fábio Lotti Oliva has a Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science from University of São Paulo, Master’s and PhD degree in Business Administration from University of São Paulo. Currently, he is an Associate Professor at the School of Economics, Business and Accounting at the University of São Paulo, with research interests in enterprise risk management, innovation management and international business management. He is a Visiting Professor at the Université Pierre-Mendès-France and a Visiting Professor at the Shanghai University. His main publications are in the Journal of Manufacturing Technology Management, Journal of Knowledge Management, International Journal of Production Economics, Journal of Organizational Change Management, Management Decision, Benchmarking: An International Journal and Journal of Intellectual Capital.

Manlio Del Giudice is a Full Professor of Management at the University of Rome “Link Campus,” where he serves as the Deputy Chancellor of the LCU Campus of Naples and Director of the CERMES Research Center. He holds a PhD in Management at the University of Milano-Bicocca, and he did build up his academic and scientific career outside of Italy for more than ten years, in a number of worldwide renewed universities, prior to coming back to Italy on 2014, having won the National Scientific Qualification. He serves as an Editor in Chief of the Journal of Knowledge Management (ISI WoS: Q1, #3 Information Science, #31 Management, Impact Factor, 2018: 4.604), and he holds key editorial positions in several international mainstream scientific journals on management. His scholar profile shows about 100 peer-reviewed articles, about 50 of them ranked in the highest “A Class” within the Italian ANVUR rankings, and 12 international monographs by flagship publishers like Springer, Palgrave Macmillan, Elsevier. His researches have been published or are forthcoming on such flagship top tier peer-reviewed journals like MIS Quarterly (4* Elite), Journal of Organizational Behavior (4*), Journal of World Business (4*), Journal of Product Innovation Management (4*), British Journal of Management (4*), Long Range Planning, IEEE Transactions on Engineering Management, Journal of Technology Transfer, R&D Management, Technological Forecasting and Social Change, Production, Planning and Control, International Marketing Review. His studies had been internationally recognized by significant impact, as evidenced by the about 4,500 citations and the H-index (= 33) he has received (at October, 2019). He did recently widely supported the Emerald Publisher's Department in charge for Ethical Issues and Investigations on malpractices of publications (according to the COPE Ethical Guidelines). He has been recently appointed by the Ministry of Education in Italy as one of the five commissioners for the National Scientific Qualification (ASN), for the field of management. He is serving as an Expert Evaluator for the Campania Region, for the National Research Council of Norway and for the European Commission in the areas of innovation and technological management and forecasting. His main research interests deal with knowledge management, technology transfer, innovation and technology management.

Masaaki Kotabe holds the Washburn Chair Professorship in International Business and Marketing at the Fox School of Business at Temple University. Prior to joining Temple University in 1998, he was Ambassador Edward Clark Centennial Endowed Fellow and Professor of Marketing and International Business at the University of Texas at Austin. Dr. Kotabe served as the President of the Academy of International Business in 2016–2017. He has written more than 100 scholarly publications, including the following books, Global Sourcing Strategy: R&D, Manufacturing, Marketing Interfaces (1992), Anticompetitive Practices in Japan (1996), Global Supply Chain Management (2006) and Global Marketing Management, 7th ed. (2017). He is an elected Fellow of the Academy of International Business.

Tachia Chin is an Associate Professor of International Business at the Zhejiang University of Technology and PhD in Human Resource Management. With ten years working experience as a Chief HR/CSR director for multinational companies in Singapore, Taipei, and Shenzhen, China, her current research interests focus on strategic human resource management, leadership, international business and cross-cultural management. She is the Real Impact Editor Asia of the Journal of Knowledge Management.

Peter Kelle, PhD degree form L. Eotvos University, Budapest, Hungary, in Production/Operations Management. He had several visiting appointments, including a British Academy fellowship and a two-year visiting research position at the University of Calgary, Canada. Dr. Kelle is the co-author of three books. Over 60 of his publications have appeared in various international professional journals, including the Journal of Operations Management, Naval Research Logistics and European Journal of Operational Research. He is the North-American Editor of the International Journal of Production Economics since 2000.