Biographical note

Mahmoud M. Abdellatif is an Assistant Professor of Economics and the Founding Director of Center for Entrepreneurship, College of Business & Economics – Qatar University since 2013. He has published widely in the area of promoting entrepreneurship and innovation policies.

Binh Tran-Nam is Professor at UNSW Business School, UNSW Sydney (Kensington, NSW, Australia) and Adjunct Professor at RMIT University Vietnam (Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam). His research focuses on taxation, trade and development economics. He has published in leading tax journals around the world.

Marina Ranga works with the European Commission’s Joint Research Centre in Seville, Spain, and is an Associate Professor on Innovation and Entrepreneurship at the University of Warsaw's School of Management (Warszawa, Poland). Her main areas of expertise include national and regional innovation ecosystems; regional innovation and smart specialization; the entrepreneurial university; technology transfer and research commercialization; University-Industry cooperation; academic entrepreneurship; and gender in innovation, technology and entrepreneurship.

Sabina Hodzic is an Associate Professor and Head of the Department of Public Finance at the Faculty of Tourism and Hospitality Management, University of Rijeka, Croatia. Her main fields of research are finance, public finance, digital economy, international taxation issues and local and regional government. She lectures on public finance and international taxation and is the author of several papers published in scientific journals and book chapters.