A Proposal for a Standard With Innovation Management System

Izold Guihur is a professor of management at Université de Moncton, in Canada. Her curiosity for innovation has
guided her experience as engineer, teacher, and researcher. Her current research interests on innovation include the
role of rich information, networks and relational capital in the process of innovation, in the contexts of small and medium
enterprise and of family business, especially.
Emhamad Hamad is a PhD researcher at Nottingham Trent University. He was a public sector employee, 1985-2005
and has been a Faculty member of the Collage of Economics, Omar Al Mukhtar University-Libya since 2005. He was a
Coordinator of the Faculty of Economics, Al-Qubbah, 2006, Head of the department of Business Administration, Omar
Al- Mukhtar University, 2007.
Takashi Hirao PhD. in Commerce He is working as an associate professor at the department of business administration
and information of Tokyo University of Science, Suwa. His research interests are innovation management and human
resource management. He has written some papers on research networks in semiconductor laser technology in US
and Japan, and on British and Japanese labour management.
Jukka Huhtamäki, M.Sc. (Hypermedia) is a researcher, a teacher, and a founding member of Stanford’s Innovation
Ecosystems Network. His research interests include visual social media analytics, methods of streamlining social network
and information visualization, user and information modeling, and development of methods and implementation
technologies for social, adaptive and distributed hypermedia.
Maroun Jneid is a PHD candidate at UniversitéParis8 with13 years of professional experience in software projectsmanagement
and engineering process activities and 11 years of experience in software engineering activities lecturing
in the Antonine University’sFaculty of Engineeringas well as its NorthCampus director for the last 4 years.Entrepreneur
of an ITManagement Consulting company
Magdalena Jurczyk-Bunkowska studied production management at Warsaw University of Technology, where she received
a PhD title in 2004. Currently, she works at Opole University of Technology as a researcher and lecturer. She
was a member of Polish Academy of Science. Now, her fields of research and interest are innovation management
especially operational approach covering innovation process planning.
Alexandros Kakouris studied Physics at the University of Athens (1990). He also received a Ph.D. in Physics from the
same University (1997) and a postgraduate certificate on “Distance Education” from the Hellenic Open University
(1999). He has been the coordinator of the Career Office at the University of Athens since May 2004, he presently
teaches innovation and entrepreneurship at the same university. His research interests concern entrepreneurship
education.
Jussi Kantola is new product development professor at University of Vaasa Finland. His prior employers include KAIST
Korea, Tampere University of Technology Finland, University of Turku Finland, Romac International US and ABB
Finland. His first PhD (IE) is from University of Louisville USA 1998, and second PhD (Industrial management) from
Tampere University of Technology 2006.
Glykeria Karagouni is a Mechanical Engineer and a Lecturer at the Department of Wood and Furniture Design and
Technology of TEI of Larissa. She holds a MSc at Modern Industrial Management and works on her PhD on Production
Technologies, Knowledge-Intensive Entrepreneurship and Innovation in Low-Tech Sectors. Her current research interests
are in technological and entrepreneurial strategy and knowledge management.
Malte Kaufmann holds masters of economics degree from the University of Heidelberg and is currently an external
Ph.D. student of the Academy of Economic Studies in Bucharest, Romania. He is founder and CEO of KAUFMANN REAL
ESTATE and member of the governing body of the Chamber of Commerce, Rhein-Neckar.
Panayiotis Ketikidis is the Vice Principal for Research, Innovation and External Relations of The University of Sheffield
International Faculty, City College and the Chairman of the Management Committee and Academic Director of the
Doctoral Programme at the South East European Research Centre (SEERC) with over 25 years of experience in management,
education and research.
Peter Kiryushin is finishing his Ph.D. research in Environmental Economics at Moscow State University and as Master
in Environmental Science, Policy and Management in Lund University, Sweden. He is involved in the comparative
study on academic entrepreneurship and commercialization of cleantech innovations in Scandinavia and Russia.
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