João Leitão holds a Habilitation in Technological Change and Entrepreneurship, University of Lisbon, Instituto Superior Técnico, and a Ph.D. in Economics, University of Beira Interior (Portugal). Since 1999, he is an Assistant Professor (tenured) in Economics and Entrepreneurship. He is a research fellow of the NECE – Research Center in Business Sciences, associate researcher of the CEG-IST & ICS, University of Lisbon (Portugal), and external research fellow of the Instituto Multidisciplinar de Empresa, University of Salamanca (Spain). His research work has been published in several leading scientific journals. He is member of distinguished editorial and reviewer boards of indexed international journals. He is editor of the Springer Book Series: 'Studies in Entrepreneurship, Structural Change and Industrial Dynamics.
António Nunes holds a Ph.D. in Economics from the University of Beira Interior (UBI Portugal). He is assistant professor at UBI lecturing on human resources management and organizational behavior for undergraduate and graduate courses. He is also a researcher at the NECE research center, University of Beira Interior, Portugal. His work has been published in several respected journals and as book chapters.
Dina Pereira holds a Ph.D. in Industrial Engineering from University of Beira Interior (UBI Portugal), and is the manager of the incubator and accelerator 'UBImedical'. Previously, she had worked as researcher at Instituto Superior Técnico (CEG-IST) - University of Lisbon and coordinated the IP Office at the Division of Research and Development of University of Beira Interior, where she was also responsible for EU Fundraising. She is author and co-author of a set of publications in entrepreneurship, innovation and coopetition.
Veland Ramadani is Professor of Entrepreneurship and Family Business at Faculty of Business and Economics, South-East European University, North Macedonia. His research interests include entrepreneurship, small business management and family businesses. He authored or co-authored around 120 research articles, 10 textbooks and 14 edited books. He has published in Journal of Business Research, International Entrepreneurship and Management Journal, International Journal of Entrepreneurial Behavior & Research, Technological Forecasting and Social Change, among others. Dr. Ramadani has recently published the co-edited book Organizational Mindset of Entrepreneurship (Springer). Dr. Ramadani is co-Editor-in-Chief of Journal of Enterprising Communities (JEC). He has received the Award for Excellence 2016 – Outstanding Paper by Emerald Group Publishing. In addition, Dr. Ramadani was invited as a keynote speaker in several international conferences and as a guest lecturer by President University, Indonesia and Telkom University, Indonesia. In 2017, he was appointed as a member of Supervisory Board of Development Bank of North Macedonia, where for ten months served as an acting Chief Operating Officer (COO).
