- Devrim Göktepe-Hultén, Associate Professor, Strategy & Research Policy/Innovation Department of Business Administration School of Economics and Management, Lund University
- Mika Raunio, Senior researcher, Finnish Migration Institute
- Antonio Hidalgo, Vice-rector, Coordinator of Doctoral Program, Polytechnic University of Madrid, Spain
- Juha Tuunainen, Professor, Oulu Business School, University of Oulu, and Department of Social Research, University of Helsinki (innovation studies)
- Seppo Poutanen, Senior Research Fellow, Dr. Soc. Sc., Docent of Sociology Management and Entrepreneurship, University of Turku, School of Economics, Finland
- Karen Viviana Barrañon Navarro, Professor and Director of Innovation and Entrepreneurship, Center at the Park of Innovation and Development of Veracruz State in Mexico, Monterrey Institute of Technology and Higher Education, Mexico
- Mariza Almeida, Associate Professor, Federal University of the State of Rio de Janeiro
- Magnus Klofsten – Professor, Division of Project, Innovations and Entrepreneurship, Linkoping University, Sweden
- Marcelo Amaral, Professor, Fluminense Federal University, Brazil
- Roberto Rivas Hermann, Assocaite Professor, Nord University, Norway
- Irina Dezhina, Doctor of Economic Sciences, Leading Researcher, Social Services Department, Center for Institutional Development, Ownership and Corporate Governance, Gaidar Institute for Economic Policy, Russia
- Marcos Lima, Director of the International Marketing & Business Development MSc Programme, Skema Business School, France
- Annika Steiber, Director for Entrepreneurship and Innovation program, Menlo College, USA; Founder and CEO, A.S. Management Insights
- Erika Kraemer-Mbula, Professor, University of Johannesburg, South Africa
- Michele Coletti, Associate Professor, Grenoble Ecole de Management, France
- Yuzhuo Cai, Adjunct Professor, Higher Education Group, Faculty of Management and Business, Tampere University
- Markku Sotarauta, Professor, Regional Studies Group, Faculty of Management and Business, Tampere University
- Zineb El Andaloussi, National School of Management of Tangier ENCGT, Morocco
- Mika Kautonen, Senior Research Fellow, Research Centre for Knowledge, Science, Technology and Innovation Studies (TASTI), Faculty of Social Sciences, Tampere University
- Nina Helander, Professor, Knowledge and Information Management, Faculty of Management and Business, Tampere University