<p>Mehdi Bagherzadeh is an Associate Professor of Innovation Management with the Department of Strategy and Entrepreneurship, and the founder and the Academic Director of the M.Sc. Entrepreneurship &amp; Innovation program, NEOMA Business School. He received the Ph.D. degree (cum laude) in management sciences from ESADE Business School in 2016. He is currently the Reviewing Editor of Technovation. He is also a senior research fellow at the Research Center for Open Digital Innovation (RCODI), Purdue University. His research interests include open and collaborative innovation, governance dynamics of inter-organizational collaboration, crowdsourcing, and team dynamics. His research has been published in academic journals, such as Journal of Management, Journal of Business Ethics, IEEE Transactions on Engineering Management. He co-edited a special issue on open innovation from a project-level perspective for Industrial Marketing Management. Mehdi has been involved in several research projects supported by KPMG France, Accenture Institute for High Performance, USC Institute for Communication Technology Management (CTM), and Garwood Center for Corporate Innovation. &nbsp;</p>

<p><span style="color:#262626">Karina R. Jensen is an educator, researcher, and international management consultant specializing in global innovation, leadership, and multicultural team collaboration. She is a Practice Professor in Global Innovation and Leadership as well as the Co-Founder and Practice Director at the Centre for Leadership and Effective Organisations.&nbsp; She is also the Founder and Executive Director of Global Minds Network, an international advisory firm. Through research with 200+ leaders at 45 multinational firms, her book Leading Global Innovation presents a framework for leading global initiatives. She has also published articles and book chapters for academic and professional titles. She currently serves as the Innovation Leadership SIG co-founder and co-leader at the International Society for Professional Innovation Management. She earned</span> her MSc at Ecole des Ponts and her PhD at ESCP Business School in Paris, France.</p>