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BA MA (Engineering) Oxford UK; PhD (Corp Strategy) Manchester Bus. Sch. UK
Served in experimental submarines before Oxford. After graduation, did reactor design and development work with Rolls-Royce & Associates on the UK nuclear submarine program. Moved to IBM as large account salesman and team leader, and then into strategy consulting.
Next to a career in investment banking – but quit commerce in 1971 to enter the Manchester PhD program. Thesis awarded the US Academy of Management AT Kearney Prize in 1980 and published as Industry Recipes (Blackwell 1989).
Served on the faculties of City University (London), York University (Toronto), UCLA, University of Glasgow, and the Chair of Entrepreneurship and Small Business at Rutgers (New Jersey).
After a year’s sabbatical with the Advanced Technology Program (US Department of Commerce) appointed Dean, School of Management, New York Institute of Technology and then Dean, School of Business and Technology, Fashion Institute of Technology (SUNY), New York. Retired April 2003.
Awarded, jointly with Robert Grant, the Strategic Management Society’s 2007 Best SMJ Paper Prize for the 1996 Special Issue on Knowledge.
Currently Svenska Handelsbanken Visiting Professor at the School of Economics and Management, Lund University (Sweden), Visiting Professor ESADE/Universitat Ramon Llull (Spain), Visiting Professor Cranfield School of Management, and Visiting Professor Open University Business School.

Dr. Jay Liebowitz is a Visiting Professor in the Stillman School of Business at Seton Hall University. He previously served as the Distinguished Chair of Applied Business and Finance at Harrisburg University of Science and Technology. Before HU, he was the Orkand Endowed Chair of Management and Technology in the Graduate School at the University of Maryland University College (UMUC). He served as a Professor in the Carey Business School at Johns Hopkins University. He was ranked one of the top 10 knowledge management researchers/practitioners out of 11,000 worldwide, and was ranked #2 in KM Strategy worldwide according to the January 2010 Journal of Knowledge Management. At Johns Hopkins University, he was the founding Program Director for the Graduate Certificate in Competitive Intelligence and the Capstone Director of the MS-Information and Telecommunications Systems for Business Program, where he engaged over 30 organizations in industry, government, and not-for-profits in capstone projects.
Prior to joining Hopkins, Dr. Liebowitz was the first Knowledge Management Officer at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center. Before NASA, Dr. Liebowitz was the Robert W. Deutsch Distinguished Professor of Information Systems at the University of Maryland-Baltimore County, Professor of Management Science at George Washington University, and Chair of Artificial Intelligence at the U.S. Army War College.
Dr. Liebowitz is the Founding Editor-in-Chief of Expert Systems With Applications: An International Journal (published by Elsevier). He is a Fulbright Scholar, IEEE-USA Federal Communications Commission Executive Fellow, and Computer Educator of the Year (International Association for Computer Information Systems). He has published over 45 books and a myriad of journal articles on knowledge management, analytics, financial literacy, intelligent systems, and IT management. Dr. Liebowitz served as the Editor-in-Chief of Procedia-CS (Elsevier). He is also the Series Book Editor of the new Data Analytics Applications book series (Taylor & Francis). In October 2011, the International Association for Computer Information Systems named the “Jay Liebowitz Outstanding Student Research Award” for the best student research paper at the IACIS Annual Conference. Dr. Liebowitz was the Fulbright Visiting Research Chair in Business at Queen’s University for the Summer 2017 and a Fulbright Specialist at Dalarna University in Sweden in May 2019. He has lectured and consulted worldwide.

Paola Demartini is Full Professor of Business Administration and Accounting at Roma Tre University and Expert peer reviewer for Italian and International Scientific Evaluation by the Italian Ministry of Education, University and Research (MIUR). She is founder and scientific responsible of the observatory “Corporate Governance Lab” (Roma Tre University – DECA) and director of the Corporate Governance and business scenarios series, Rome TrE-press. She also boasts experience in the board of directors of listed Italian organizations.
She has been prior Vice President Country Italy for the European Council for Small Business and Entrepreneurship (ECSB), and visiting professor or researcher at Pula University (Croatia), Boston University, Macquarie University and Manchester University.
She has authored over 100 scholarly publications. Her main research contributions combine accounting expertise with interests in sustainability and innovation subjects. In particular, since the beginning of its research activity, she has studied the reporting of organizations, including financial, intellectual capital, integrated, sustainability and SDGs reporting.
She is member of the Editorial Board of many international journals and, currently, she is co-Chief Editor of Piccola Impresa / Small Business, a Journal A rated by the Italian Academy of Business Administration Scholars (AIDEA). In recent years, with a view to the cross fertilization of knowledge to tackle complex research topics, she is involved in research projects on Cultural Heritage and Contemporary Culture. Currently she is member of the leading research Team engaged in an interdisciplinary European project H2020, titled: SOPHIA — Social Platform for Holistic Heritage Impact Assessment.

Prof. Dr. JinHyo Joseph Yun, is Tenured Princial Researcher and adjunct professor of DGIST, Professor of Open Innovation Academy of SOItmC. He is the Founder and Organzing Pesident of SOItmC (Society of Open Innovation; Technology, Market, and Complexity), and Editor In Chief of JOItmC (Journal of Open Innovation; Technology, Market, and Complexity). He is author of the open innovation business model book – Business Model Design Compass; Open Innovation Funnel to Schumpeterain New combination business model developing circle. He has published more than 100 papers extensively in a variety of leading journals including the Technological Forecasting, and Social Change, Oxford Journal of Science and Publich Policy, European Planning Studies, Knowledge Management Research Practices, Science Technology and Society, Sustainabilities, Journal of Open Innovaiton; Technology, Market, and Complexity, et al.