Nuno Crespo holds a PhD in Economics and a Master degree in International Economics. He is the Director of the Master in Business Economics and Competition. In the most recent years, Nuno Crespo was Vice-Rector of ISCTE-IUL and assumed several other positions such as Director of the Department of Economics, Scientific Commission of the Department of Economics, and the coordenation of courses (Master in Portuguese Economy and International Integration and Master in Health Services Management). Researcher at Business Research Unit (BRU-IUL), he has several publications in scientific journals such as World Economy, World Development, Economics Letters, Review of World Economics, Journal of Common Market Studies, Journal of Economic Surveys, Empirical Economics, Papers in Regional Science, Tourism Analysis, Journal of Economics and Social Measurement, Telecommunications Policy, Journal of Informetrics, Scientometrics, International Review of Applied Economics, International Journal of Social Economics. Publications of books and book chapters in his areas of expertise. He is Co-Editor-in-Chief of the Academy of Entrepreneurship Journal and member of the editorial board of several international scientific journals (European Journal of International Management, International Journal of Trade and Global Markets, International Journal of Knowledge and Learning, Sustainability, and Tourism Analysis, among others). Editor of the MPRA. Member of the International Economics Advisory Board of the Cambridge Scholars Publishing. Global Partner of the National Economic Education Delegation (NEED). Member of the Advisory Council of A3ES.

Mónica Meireles is Assistant Professor at ISCTE-University Institute of Lisbon and Researcher at BRU-IUL (Business Research Unit). She is director of the Master degree in Business Economics and Competition. She was director of the Undergraduate degree in Economics at Iscte (2018-2020) and vice-director of the Department of Economics at Iscte (2014-2010). Her main research interests are in energy and environmental economics, where she has focused on renewable energies, environmental policies, sustainable development and growth models with technological change. She has been a consultant for the Portuguese Environmental Ministry and the European Commission and she has also supported the Ministry of the Environment with Environmental Economics training. She is a member and founding partner of the Portuguese Association for Energy Economics (APEEN), affiliate of the International Association for Energy Economics (IAEE), in whose conferences she participates regularly, and currently belongs to the Fiscal Council of APEEN. Among others, she is also a member of the Iberian Association of Natural and Environmental Resource Economics (AERNA) and she was a Board member of the European Association of Young Economists (EAYE) (2016-2018). She teaches in different areas, with particular emphasis on the Economics of Environment and Natural Resources, Energy and Environmental Economics and Microeconomics at different academic levels.

Nadia Simoes holds a PhD in Economics and a Master degree in Economics from ISEG (Universidade de Lisboa). Started to teach in the Economics Department of ISCTE - Instituto Universitário de Lisboa in 2002. Director of the Bachelor Degree in Economics (Iscte - Instituto Universitário de Lisboa). Former Director of the Master in Business Economics and Competition for nine editions of the programme. Researcher of the Economics Group of the Business Research Unit (BRU-IUL). She has published paper articles in several journals such as Economics Letters, Journal of Economic Surveys, Empirical Economics, Acta Oeconomica, International Review of Applied Economics, Telecommunications Policy, Panoeconomicus, International Journal of Social Economics, Economics Bulletin, among others. Associate Editor of the journal International Journal of Education Economics and Development (SCOPUS Q4) and Editor of the journal Cogent Economics & Finance (SCOPUS Q3). Member of the Editorial Board of the following journals: Entrepreneurship and Sustainability Issues (SCOPUS Q1); Journal of Entrepreneurship Education (SCOPUS Q2); Panoeconomicus (SCOPUS Q2); Journal of Entrepreneurship in Emerging Economies (SCOPUS Q2); Academy of Entrepreneurship Journal (SCOPUS Q3); the International Journal of Entrepreneurship (SCOPUS Q3); and Revista Galega de Economia (SCOPUS Q4). NEP Editor for the area of Education (nep-edu). Member of the Editorial Board of the European Training Foundation (European Union). She has participated in several research national and international research projects financed by public institutions (including two projects funded by FCT and a project funded by the Ministry of Employment).  Expert for different national and international institutions such as the EUROPEAN EMPLOYMENT OBSERVATORY (EUROPEAN COMMISSION), INTERNATIONAL LABOUR ORGANIZATION , CEDEFOP, EUROFOUND, EUROPEAN CENTRE OF EXPERTISE, PORTUGUESE LABOUR MINISTRY, and PORTUGUESE MINISTRY OF EDUCATION.

Vítor Hugo Santos Ferreira received his PhD in 2010 from the University of Lisbon (ISEG) in Entrepreneurship and Innovation, focusing on the dynamics of regional innovation and catching-up. He has a Master's degree in Economics and Management of Science, Technology and Innovation from the University of Lisbon (ISEG) (2006) and developed his Master's thesis on the "Moulds Sector in Portugal Vs China: Strategies, Skills and Innovation". He is a professor at the Polytechnic Institute of Leiria since 2002, where he teaches Advanced Strategy, Innovation Management, Entrepreneurship, Creativity and Innovation, Knowledge Management, Games Markets and Multimedia UCs.  Between 2012 and 2014 he was Coordinator of the Master of Management Control and is a member of the scientific committee of the International Business Master of IPLeiria since 2014. Over the years he has collaborated with some European business schools in Finland, the Netherlands, Hungary and France and is a visiting professor at the University of Feevale and Coimbra Business School. He has supervised more than 20 entrepreneurial projects and guided 30 Master's dissertations in the areas of Strategy, Innovation, International Business and Knowledge Management.  He was responsible for the creation of the "entrepreneurial engineering" award. He is a trainer in the area of entrepreneurship in programmes linked to Poliempreende. Since 2013 he has developed extensive work in Supporting the business sector, in the study of entrepreneurship phenomena and in the implementation of investment projects in higher education/industry (QREN, P2020, Framework Programme). He is a researcher and member of the scientific council of the Centre for the Rapid and Sustainable Development of Products (CDRsp), a research unit of IPLeiria. He was co-responsible for several important studies, such as the "comparison of the Portuguese mould industry with the Chinese one", the "Assessment of the education needs of the Leria Region", the "assessment of a hydrogen-based industry in South Africa" and the "Internal Pine Forest Region as a System of Innovation". He is the author of many published scientific papers, Chair of GBATA (Global Business and Technology Association) and of the European Conference on Knowledege Management and reviewer in many conferences and different journals.  He has worked as a consultant on entrepreneurship and innovation projects for many business associations (Nerlei, Aciso, Airo), where he has also worked as a trainer for entrepreneurs and executives. He was a founding partner of the start-up Look an Go. Since 2013 he has been Executive Director of D.Dinis Business School, responsible for the management and strategy of this entity. He is responsible for the scientific and teaching courses in Entrepreneurship, the Postgraduate Diploma in Innovation Management, the General Management Program (in partnership with ISCTE), the Mini-MBA and the Management course for SMEs. He is a guest columnist for "Jornal de Leiria" and "o Molde" magazine. He is a founding member of the Eurafitar Innovation Association and a founding member of the accelerator StartUp Leiria. He has been a guest speaker at more than 20 events in the last 3 years and organizer of several national and international conferences.