EAI International Conference on Technology, Innovation, Entrepreneurship and Education / Lecture Notes in Electrical Engineering Bd.532 (PDF)

Angélica Reyes holds a Ph.D. with a Doctoral European mention from the Technical University of Catalonia (UPC) 2003. She has been working at the Computer Architecture Department of the UPC since 2004. Currently, she is an associate professor at the School of Telecommunications and Aerospace Engineering of Castelldefels (EETAC) and member of the ICARUS research group. Her research interests are in the fields of vehicular communications networks and cognitive workload assessment.
Ping Zheng was awarded her Ph.D. in Management from University of Kent (UK) in 2007, after completing an MBA with distinction at the same school in 2003. Before embarking on an academic career, she worked as executive manager for number of years in a US-owned joint venture developing business relations between US and China. She is currently a Senior Lecturer at Canterbury Christ Church University Business School in the UK. Prior to this she was a Lecturer at Essex Business School of University of Essex from 2006 to 2010. Her research interests range from entrepreneurship and innovation in SMEs to institutional change and firm growth strategies in emerging economies. She has published on a numerous journals, such as Journal of General Management, Thunderbird International Business Review, Futures. She received the "Best Paper Award" at the Institute for Small Business and Entrepreneurship (ISBE) Annual Conference in 2010. She is also the principal author (with Prof. Richard Scase) of a book (research monograph) - "Emerging Business Ventures under Market Socialism: Entrepreneurship in China" (Routledge, London, 2014). Her recent book chapter adopts a novel future perspective in analyzing the possible future outcome of technological change, 'How change agencies can affect our path towards a signgularity' is published by Springer.
David Crawford has been working as a Professor at the University of Essex at Colchester, lecturing in 'Transmission Systems' and 'Intellectual Property', and with