Welcome Reception

Maribel Guerrero

Arizona State University

Maribel Guerrero is an Associate Professor of Public Policy and Management at the School of Public Affairs and Global Center for Technology Transfer at Arizona State University. Her main research interests are the managerial and public policy implications of entrepreneurship, technology transfer, innovation, and entrepreneurial ecosystems. Professor Guerrero is an Editor of the Small Business Economics Journal and Regional Studies Journal, an Associate Editor of the Journal of Technology Transfer and the Journal of Small Business Management, and a member of the Advisory Board of Research Policy. 

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Speech on Wednesday 11th of September.

Petra Andries

Ghent University

Petra Andries is Associate Professor of Entrepreneurship and Strategy at Ghent University. She conducts research in the field of entrepreneurship and innovation management and has provided companies and policy makers with advice in these domains. Petra has a particular interest in entrepreneurial decision-making and the role the entrepreneur’s context plays in this respect. She is an editor at Small Business Economics and serves on the editorial review boards of Journal of Management Studies, Long Range Planning, and Entrepreneurship Theory & Practice.

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Keynote on Wednesday 11th of September.

Alessandra Scandura

University of Turin

Alessandra Scandura is associate professor of Economics at the Department of Economics and Statistics Cognetti de Martiis at the University of Turin (Torino, Italy) since March 2023. She previously worked as a post-doctoral fellow at the Department of Management at the University of Bologna and as a Marie Curie post-doctoral fellow. She obtained a PhD in Economic Geography from the Department of Geography and Environment at the London School of Economics and Political Science in 2015. Her research interests include Economics of Innovation, Eco-innovation, Entrepreneurship, and Local Economic Development. She carries out empirical investigations of the patterns of innovative activities and knowledge creation across firms, sectors and regions. Her articles have been published in leading field journals such as Research Policy, the Journal of Technology Transfer, Technological Forecasting and Social Change, Regional Studies, and Ecological Economics. Besides various EU and national funded projects, she is currently involved in the GRINS (Growing Resilient, Inclusive and Sustainable) project funded by the Next Generation EU program (National Recovery and Resilience Plan). 

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Keynote on Thursday 12th of September.

Christopher Hayter

Georgia Institute of Technology

Chris Hayter is Associate Professor with the School of Public Policy at the Georgia Institute of Technology. His research focuses on academic entrepreneurship, non-academic career transitions among university postdocs, and the performance of entrepreneurship development programs. Chris serves as a senior consultant for the World Bank and co-founded a software startup. Prior to joining Georgia Tech, he was on faculty at Arizona State University for nine years and spent 15 years prior working as a science and entrepreneurship policy advisor with organizations such as the National Academies, Council of Competitiveness, National Governors Association, and New York Academy of Sciences. 

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Keynote on Friday 13th of September.