Biographies

Dr Panagiotis Georgiadis
Panagiotis Georgiadis is Professor at the Faculty of Informatics and Telecommunications of the University of Athens. He holds a B.Sc. in Physics, M.Sc. and Ph.D. in Computer Science. He has been a regular member of the Senate of University of Athens (1992-1994), director of the Computer Systems & Applications Division of the Faculty (1994-1996), Secretary General for Information Systems by the Greek Ministry of Finance (1997 - 2002) and Secretary General of Public Administration and e-Government by the Ministry of Interior and Decentralization (2003 - 2004). His research interests include Innovative Entrepreneurship, Distributed Systems, Simulation and Management of Information Systems. He has authored more than 60 scientific articles in international journals and conferences, and he is the editor of the International Journal of Electronic Governance (IJEG).

Panagiotis Georgiadis

Dr Alexandros Kakouris
Alexandros is a part time lecturer of innovation and entrepreneurship at the University of Athens. He received his Ph.D. in Physics from the same university (1997) and postgraduate training on Distance Learning from the Hellenic Open University where he served as a tutor for one academic year. He has been a part-time professor of Space Science at the Hellenic Air Force Academy (1995-2001) and has coordinated the Career Office of the University of Athens from 2004 to 2008. He has written a book, articles in Physics, Education and Entrepreneurship, and his current research interests include experiential learning in Entrepreneurship Education.

Alexandros Kakouris

Elena Panaritis

Elena is an institutional economist. She spearheaded property rights reform, particularly in Peru, while working at the World Bank. She lectures at Insead, the Wharton School and Johns Hopkins University-SAIS. A social entrepreneur, she now heads the investment advisory firm Panel Group, which invests in undervalued property and provides counsel on transforming informal real estate and related public policy. Her recent book is Prosperity Unbound: Building Property Markets with Trust (Palgrave Macmillan, 2007).

Elena Panaritis

Dr Amar Bhidé
Amar, previously the Laurence D. Glaubinger Professor of Business at Columbia University, is currently a visiting Scholar at Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, USA and is writing a book on the financial crisis. Bhidé served on the faculties of Harvard Business School (from 1988 to 2000) and the University of Chicago's Graduate School of Business. A former Senior Engagement Manager at McKinsey & Company and proprietary trader at E.F. Hutton, Bhidé served on the staff of the Brady Commission which investigated the stock market crash. Bhidé earned a DBA (1988) and an MBA with high distinction as a Baker Scholar (1979) from Harvard. He received a B.Tech from the Indian Institute of Technology in 1977. His most recent book, The Venturesome Economy: How Innovation Sustains Prosperity in a More Connected World, (Princeton University Press 2008) won the Association of American Publishers’ PROSE Award for Professional and Scholarly Excellence in Business, Finance, and Management, and was in the “Best of 2008” lists of the Economist, BusinessWeek and Barrons. Amar has been studying entrepreneurship for more than 20 years and has written a number of books, business reviews and other articles.

Amar Bhidé

Claire Auplat
Claire is in charge of a program which explores the relations between institutional change and entrepreneurship in the field of new technological ventures, with a focus on the development of nanotechnologies. Her areas of interest cover public policy and entrepreneurial dynamics, innovation and sustainable development. She has published widely in these areas and is a member of the editorial board of Society and Business Review, International Journal of Entrepreneurship and Small Business and Scandinavian Journal of Management.

Claire Auplat

Dr Heather Fulford
Dr Fulford is Reader in Entrepreneurship and Academic Director of the Centre for Entrepreneurship at Aberdeen Business School, The Robert Gordon University, Scotland. Her research interests include social enterprise start-up and governance and social entrepreneurship education. She is currently lead academic on a funded project with a social enterprise in Aberdeen. Her lecturing commitments included postgraduate and undergraduate modules on new venture creation. 

Heather Fulford

Ina Freeman
Ina is an Associate Professor at Groupe Sup de Co, La Rochelle. Her research interests are in the human aspects of international business and marketing including ethics and human behaviour. She is also interested in various aspects of tertiary education including corporate governance across national borders.

Brendan Galbraith
Brendan Galbraith is a lecturer in the Ulster Business School, University of Ulster, Northern Ireland. He is the guest editor of an upcoming special issue in the Technology Analysis and Strategic Management Journal “Managing open innovation intermediaries in the technology transfer process” and has published widely in academic journals. He is a principle investigator for two newly funded FP7 open innovation-related projects – ‘MAPEeR SME’ (Making Progress and Economic Enhancement a Reality for SMEs) [FP7-SME-2009] and PARTERRE (Electronic Participation Tools for Spatial Planning and Territorial Development) [ICT-PSP-2009-3bis] and is a co-founder of the TRAIL Living Lab.

Brendan Galbraith

Liang Guo
Liang is researcher of Groupe Sup de Co La Rochelle, a private teaching and research institute in France. He is doing his PhD in social and political sciences at the University of Cambridge, UK

Liang Guo

Dr. Jun Li
Jun is a Senior Lecturer of Entrepreneurship and Innovation at University of Essex, and Editor of Journal of Chinese Entrepreneurship published. He is a Visiting Professor at Fudan University, Zhejiang University, Zhongnan University of Economics and Law and Shantou University in China. He recently edited three special issues on topics of entrepreneurship and innovation in China.

Jun Li

Dr Maurice Mulvenna
Dr Maurice Mulvenna is a Professor of Computer Science at the TRAIL Living Laboratory at the University of Ulster, Northern Ireland. He is a non-executive director in several company enterprises and was recently appointed to the board of the University of Ulster’s innovation company, UUTECH. He is a past winner of the European IST Grand Prize in 2001 and holds grants on pervasive healthcare research and innovation projects worth over £30M. Professor Mulvenna is also a grant holder on the MAPEeR SME and PARTERRE open innovation projects, has over 150 publications and is a co-founder of the TRAIL Living Lab.

Maurice Mulvenna

Dr Jukka Ojasalo, Ph.D., Professor
Jukka is at Laurea University of Applied Sciences in Espoo, Finland. He is Principal Lecturer and the Head of Master's Degree Programme. He has earlier been Professor of Marketing at Lappeenranta University of Technology. He has also been Professor of Marketing at Turku School of Economics and Business Administration and the head of Marketing Program in the Pori Unit. He is Docent (Adjunct Professor) of Professional Services Management at Helsinki School of Economics. He is also Docent (Adjunct Professor) of Quality Management at Helsinki University of Technology. He completed his Ph.D. in Business Administration at the Swedish School of Economics and Business Administration in Helsinki, Finland in 1999. He holds M.Sc. (Marketing) from University of Tampere and M.Sc. (Software Engineering) from Tampere University of Technology.

Jukka Ojasalo

Dr Renaud Redien-Collot (Ph.D. 2002, Columbia U. New York City)
Renaud is Professor of Entrepreneurship and the Deputy Director of Advancia, the School of Entrepreneurship of  Paris Chamber of Commerce. He founded the Master Degree in Entrepreneurship at Advancia in 2005. He launched the French-American Conference of Entrepreneurs (FACE) in 2007. He is presently a member of the Board of Administration of Académie de l'Entrepreneuriat and at the head of the Académie de l'Entrepreneuriat's network dedicated to the development of research in the field of gender, entrepreneurship, and innovation. Since 2008, he has been a member of the Jury of the DELL and ICSB global Prize that rewards the most innovative SMEs for their development of Information System. As a member of the Board of Administration of the E. Roosevelt Foundation (1994-2000), he was in charge of several projects that have stimulated the development of entrepreneurship education and the emergence of innovative start-ups in the USA and in Europe. He will be the Chair of the 2010 EFMD Entrepreneurship Conference. His research interests include minority entrepreneurship, theories of innovation, leadership and intrapreneurship, entrepreneurship education, epistemology of the praxis in the realm of entrepreneurship, and the development of public and private discourse about entrepreneurs and entrepreneurship.

Renaud Redien-Collot

Professor Chunlin Si
Chunlin is Professor of Management Science, Director of Research Centre for Entrepreneurship and Venture Capital at Fudan University, China, and Editor of R&D Management in China. He is also the Honorary Professor at Zhejiang University and Changan University, China. He has published widely in the field of entrepreneurship and innovation in China and abroad.

Chunlin Si

Dr Sebastien Tran
Sebastien is the Academic Director of Groupe Sup de Co, La Rcohelle. He is a graduate of L’Universite Paris IX Dauphine (Ph.D.). His areas of interest are Strategy, Management of People and Organizations, and Environment. He is active in publications in this area, having published in some international conferences, Revue Française de Gestion, and International Journal Technology Management.