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¿Vanessa Ratten is an Associate Professor of Entrepreneurship and Innovation at La Trobe University. She is the Program Director of the Entrepreneurship and Innovation subjects and teaches Corporate Venturing and Managing Innovation. She has published seven sole authored books including Sport Entrepreneurship: Developing and Sustaining an Entrepreneurial Sports Culture (Springer). She has also edited more than twenty books including Entrepreneurship and the Community: A Multidisciplinary Perspective on Creativity, Social Challenges, and Business (Springer).
Vitor Braga is an Associate Professor in Management at Porto Polytechnic's School of Technology and Management at Felgueiras (ESTGF), Portugal, where he is the Director of the Business Sciences degree. In his PhD thesis in business economics (Middlesex University, London), he analyzed business cooperation in the Portuguese small and medium enterprises (SMEs). Recently, he hasbeen conducting research in entrepreneurship and, in particular, on informal cooperation mechanisms among Portuguese SMEs, as well as on innovation, institutional economics, and spatial economics. He has presented his research widely at international conferences and publishes regularly in international journals.