Evgeny Schlyakhto is General Director of the V.A. Almazov National Medical Research Center at Russian Academy of Sciences (Moscow, Russia). Igor Ilin is Director of the Graduate School of Business Engineering at Peter the Great St. Petersburg Polytechnic University (Russia). He is the leader of research in enterprise architecture, business engineering, digital transformation of companies, industries, and regions. Tessaleno Campos Devezas is Associate Professor with habilitation at Atlantica Instituto Universitario (Portugal). He is known for his contributions to the long waves theory in socioeconomic development, technological evolution, energy systems, materials engineering as well as world systems analysis.

His main research interests embrace technological forecasting, future studies, socioeconomic long waves, evolutionary economics, technological evolution, innovation theory and dynamics, complex adaptive systems, and new materials. João Carlos Correia Leitão is Associate Professor with habilitation and Director of the UBI Executive Business School at the University of Beira Interior (UBI) (Portugal). He is a prolific author and series editor of the Springer book series Studies in Entrepreneurship, Structural Change, and Industrial Dynamics . He is also a member of the editorial boards of several international journals such as The International Review on Public and Nonprofit Marketing (Springer), Discover Sustainability (Springer), and International Journal of Entrepreneurial Venturing (Inderscience). His main research interests include entrepreneurship, innovation and sustainable development. Serena Cubico is Associate Professor of Management at Department of Business Administration, University of Verona (Italy). Her main research areas are: entrepreneurship (youth and female, education, start-up), organizational behavior in SMEs, family business, entrepreneurial competencies and potential (identification, assessment, measurement).