Léo-Paul Dana

Léo-Paul Dana is Professor at ICD Business School Paris and Professorial Research Fellow at the Next Society Institute (NSI) of Kazimieras Simonavicius University (KSU), in Lithuania.   A graduate of McGill University, he has served as Marie Curie Fellow at Princeton University and Visiting Professor at INSEAD and at Kingston University.  He has published extensively in a variety of journals including: Entrepreneurship: Theory & Practice, International Business Review, International Small Business Journal, Journal of Business Research, Journal of Small Business Management, Journal of World Business, Small Business Economics, and Technological Forecasting & Social Change.

Aidin Salamzadeh is an Associate Professor and the Vice Dean of the College of Management at the University of Tehran, and a researcher at the Polytechnic Institute of Porto. In 2024, Stanford University listed him among the top 2 percent of scholars in the field of business and management. His interests include startups, new venture creation, and entrepreneurship. Aidin serves as an associate editor for several well-known academic journals. Additionally, he co-founded the Innovation and Entrepreneurship Research Lab (London).