Honorary retired professor of innovation and entrepreneurship at the University of Exeter, senior researcher at Innofora Ltd.Originally a chemical engineer, Professor John Bessant has been active in research, teaching and consultancy in technology and innovation management for over 25 years. He currently holds the Chair in Innovation and Entrepreneurship at Exeter University where he is also Research Director. In 2003, he was awarded a Fellowship with the Advanced Institute for Management Research and was also elected a Fellow of the British Academy of Management. He served on the Business and Management Panel of both the 2001 and 2008 Research Assessment Exercises. He has acted as advisor to various national governments and to international bodies including the United Nations, The World Bank and the OECD

Ph.D., professor at the School of Management, Zhejiang University, doctoral supervisor, deputy dean, Young Yangtze Scholar of the Ministry of Education, executive deputy director of the Research Center for Innovation Management and Sustained Competitiveness of Zhejiang University, co-director of the Intellectual Property Management Institute of the School of Management . ISO/TC 279 registered expert, SAC/TC554 committee member.

Professor of Engineering Product Innovation at the Royal Institute of Technology in Sweden, permanent visiting professor at Stockholm and Luis University. Former director of the Swedish Institute for Innovation and Technology Management, a visiting professor at Bologna University, and Chairman, a senior advisor of the Continuous Innovation Network (CINet) committee. Mats Magnusson is Professor of Product Innovation Engineering at KTH Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm and Permanent Visiting Professor at Luiss School of Business and Management in Rome. He has previously been director of the Institute for Management of Innovation and Technology in Sweden, and Visiting Professor at the University of Bologna and at Aalborg University. Moreover, he is chairman of the Continuous Innovation Network (CINet), senior advisor of the Creativity and Innovation Management journal, and is active as a board member and consultant to several industrial companies, as well as in various executive training programs. His research and teaching activities concern continuous innovation, management of ideas and knowledge, innovation networks and strategic management.

Head of the rInnovation Group, registered expert for ISO/TC 279, expert in ISO 56002 and ISO 56007. Former board member of the International Society for Professional Innovation Management (ISPIM), and faculty at the Technical University of Denmark. Joanne is a co-founder and the President of the rInnovation Group and former Vice President, New Venture Development, at Nortel Networks. She is an accomplished innovation strategist, architect, orchestrator, implementation expert and author.