A Proposal for a Standard With Innovation Management System

Ted Sarmiento is Senior Lecturer at the Business School of Leeds Metropolitan University, Leeds, England and is currently
researching small business ‘success’ factors as part of a DBA programme. A keen cyclist taking part in Cyclo-
Cross, Time Trial and Sportive events Ted also has a small business interest in a holiday let in Northumberland.
Henk Schout MA, MCC. Programme manager of the Centre for Innovation & Entrepreneurship. He realizes innovative
entrepreneurship projects at regional SMEs in the greenhouse horticultural industry. He developed an undergraduate
entrepreneurship programme and his research fields are drivers of entrepreneurial ambition and the influence of
leadership on innovative capacity. He has a background in corporate communication.
Sabina Seran is a PhD Student at the Politehnica University of Timisoara, and has a double diploma in Communication
and PR and in Public Administration (2008) and an MBA (2010) with the specialty Marketing. Mrs SERAN has written
on several aspects of prosumer collaboration tools and innovation strategies.
Dmitriy Shishkin Lecturer on “Entrepreneurship”, “Start-up & business development” in State National Research Polytechnic
University of Perm. Head of Small-Scale Business Sector in Advanced Training Institute. Consulting services &
managing educational activities for entrepreneurs. Managing regional projects for youth entrepreneurship & private
enterprise development. PhD student. Research theme “Development of entrepreneurial activity”.
Ângela Silva is an Assistant Professor at Lusíada University, on Vila Nova de Famalicão. She obtained the PhD in Industrial
Engineering and Systems in 2008 at the University of Minho. The research area focuses on the implementation of
operations management tools on industrial environment.
Cândida Silva is a PhD student of the Doctoral Program of Technology and Information Systems, Master in Management
and Industrial Engineering, and Graduate in Informatics and Systems Engineering. Cândida Silva is Assistant at
the Management and Industrial Studies School, of the Polytechnic Institute of Oporto, and she is also President of the
Student Chapter of the Association for Information Systems, of the University of Minho.
Sandra Silva is Assistant Professor at Faculty of Economics, Porto University (FEP). She holds a PhD in Economics from
FEP. She published a pedagogic book on macroeconomics and articles related with evolutionary economics, innovation
and economic growth (published in international journals as JEE). Current research interests are on evolutionary
economics, innovation, growth, poverty, inequality.
Aelita Skaržauskienė has degree of Doctor of Social Sciences from ISM, University of Management and Economics in
Vilnius, Lithuania. In her work dr. A. Skaržauskienė applies both knowledge of management and modern leadershipcorrelated
disciplines such as Business dynamics, Systems thinking, Chaos and complexity theories. Dr. A.
Skaržauskienė was the couch in the Self-managing teams building project in European Parliament together with
DEMOS Group Belgium.
Zsuzsanna Katalin Szabó, Vice-Dean of the Faculty of Economics, Law and Administrative Sciences of Petru Maior University,
Tirgu Mures, Romania; PhD in Mathematics, publish research papers and books in the field of entrepreneurship
education SMEs. Founding member Association of Economic Faculties in Romania,
Kambiz Talebi is an associate professor of Entrepreneurship Faculty, University of Teharan, Iran. Kambiz has had a
number of papers published in International Conferences, and 9 published in ISI journal. Also has been an Editor of 5
books
Peter Teirlinck is professor Innovation Management at Hogeschool-Universiteit Brussel. His main research interest
areas include: R&D & Innovation Management in SMEs; Impact assessment of public funding for RTDI; Innovation and
regional development.
Marianne Tremaine works in the School of Communication, Journalism and Marketing at Massey University, New Zealand.
She has published on gender and leadership and female entrepreneurship and is currently working with two colleagues
on a call for a special issue of Gender in Management journal: 'Female Entrepreneurship - Challenges, Conflicts
and Pathways in the current environment
Marios Trigkas is a ph.D. Forester specialized in wood and furniture business economics and innovation. He is a scientific
collaborator of the Centre for Research and Technology – Thessaly and of the Department of Wood and Furniture
Technology and Design. His current research interests are in Economics of Innovation, Applied Innovation, Business
Economics and Entrepreneurship.
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