Biographical note

Khaula Alkaabi is a Professor of Transportation Geography at the Department of Geography and Urban Sustainability, United Arab Emirates University (UAEU), United Arab Emirates. She held the position of Chair of the Geography Department from 2013 to 2017 and served as the Chief Innovation Officer for UAEU from 2015 to 2022. Her research interests include air transportation, land use planning, spatial analysis, GIS applications, drone applications, tourism, urban development, economic geography, entrepreneurship, innovation, etc. She has published in Journal of the Knowledge Economy, Frontiers in Built Environment, Arab World Geographer, Journal of Enterprising Communities, Transportation Research Part F, Journal of Transport Geography, among others. Dr. Alkaabi has received several research grants, academic honors, and rewards. 

Veland Ramadani is a Full Professor of Entrepreneurship and Family Business at the 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 200 research articles and book chapters, twelve textbooks and twenty-five edited books. He has published in Journal of Business Research, Technological Forecasting and Social Change, Review of Managerial Science, Management Decision, Technology in Society, International Journal of Entrepreneurial Behavior & Research, among others. He has received the Award for Excellence 2016 - Outstanding Paper by Emerald Group Publishing. In 2017, he was appointed as a member of the Supervisory Board of Development Bank of North Macedonia, where for ten months served as an acting Chief Operating Officer (COO) as well. He was ranked, three times in a row, among the Top 2% of the most influential researchers in the World, based on a study conducted by Elsevier BV & Stanford University, USA.