Associate Professor of Economics with Habilitation, University of Beira Interior (UBI). PhD in Economics, UBI. Habilitation in Technological Change and Entrepreneurship, IST, University of Lisbon, Portugal. Director of the UBIExecutive, Business School. Research fellow at the NECE, Research Center in Business Sciences, UBI. Associate researcher at the CEG-IST - Centre for Management Studies of Instituto Superior Técnico & the ICS - Instituto de Ciências Sociais, University of Lisbon. Editor of the Springer Book Series: Studies in Entrepreneurship, Structural Change and Industrial Dynamics. Editorial Board member of the International Review on Public and Nonprofit Marketing, Springer, Revista Portuguesa de Estudos Regionais, APDR, Sustainability, MDPI, and Discover Sustainability, Springer Nature. Member of the MIT Technology Review Global Panel, a community of business professionals.