A Proposal for a Standard With Innovation Management System

Jiro Usugami is a Professor of Management at Aoyama Gakuin University, Japan. He received his Ph.D from the
George Washington University, USA. Hirofumi Abe is incubation manager of Center for Industrial and Governmental
Relations at the University of Electro- Communications, Japan. He received his Ph.D from the Oita University, Japan.
Luís Valentim Ph.D Candidate, Strategy and Organizational Behavior, School of Economics, University of Coimbra, Portugal,
MSc, Nova School of Business and Economics, Lisbon, Portugal. MBA, HEC School of Management, Paris, France.
Assistant Professor, IPAM - Portuguese Institute of Administration in Marketing, Lisbon, Portugal. Former Managing
Director of Makro Portugal – Metro Group
Hannu Vanharanta, began his professional career in 1973 at the Finnish Ministry of Trade and Industry. After that he
worked many years for Finnish international engineering companies. Since 1998 he has been professor in Industrial
Management in Tampere University of Technology. His main research interests are: Management and Leadership,
Strategic Management, Financial Analysis, Decision Support Systems.
Armando Luís Vieira is assistant professor at the University of Aveiro. His research interests include services marketing,
tourism, and psychology. He is the author of a range of books and articles on these and related subjects. Recent
publications have appeared in International Journal of Tourism Research, Journal of Relationship Marketing, and Journal
of Sexual Medicine.
Filipa Vieira holds a Ph.D. in Industrial and Systems Engineering. Filipa is also an assistant Professor at the Production
and Systems Department, School of Engineering, University of Minho, since 2007. Her Lecturing activities on Innovation
and Economics Engineering, at undergraduate and post-graduate courses. Researcher fellow at CGIT (Production
and Systems Department Research Centre). Author of several research papers on innovation.
Marcia Villasana holds a Ph.D. in Public Policy, professor, and part of the research chair in Knowledge Management at
Tecnologico de Monterrey (ITESM). Her research interests include: regional economic development; science, technology
and innovation policies;regional systems of innovation; technology transfer; university-industry interactions; and
academic entrepreneurship.
Jim Walsh is a lecturer in Management at University College Cork and fellow of the Irish Academy of Management. He
is a winner of 8 international awards for his research output which includes 3 books, over 250 papers, chapters and
conference proceedings. He is a graduate of Harvard University & National University of Ireland.
Cathie Wright BSc (Hons), MBA, is a part-time teaching fellow at Heriot Watt University, Edinburgh, specialising in
Innovation Management and Business Venturing. She has 20 years practitioner experience managing economic development
projects at international, national and local level. Before joining Heriot Watt in 2005, she worked with
Scottish Enterprise delivering successful projects promoting e-business to Scottish SMEs.
Afonso Zinga is currently a lecturer of Strategic Management at the Faculty of Economics, University of Coimbra. He
holds a Ph.D. in Business Management with specialization in Strategic Management from the University of Coimbra.
His research interests include entrepreneurship and innovation, internationalization, growth and international development
of new enterprises, networks, and family business governance.
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