Frédéric Delmar is a professor in strategy and organization at EM Lyon in France. His
research focuses on new venture development, venture growth, the psychology of the
entrepreneur and on entrepreneurship in the knowledge intensive sector. His research
has appeared in Management Science, Strategic Management Journal, Journal of Business
Venturing, Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice, among other journals.

Saras D. Sarasvathy

University of Virginia, Darden School of Business

Saras D. Sarasvathy teaches entrepreneurship and ethics in Darden’s MBA program. She was also the very first Batten Fellow in residence in 1999. Her research led to the development of a model of entrepreneurial expertise called effectuation, that provides micro-foundations for theories about the creation and growth of new organizations and markets. Her active research program involves collaborations with over a dozen scholars from around the world, whose published and working papers can be found at www.effectuation.org. Sarasvathy has also developed several cases and other instructional materials to teach effectuation to MBA students and executives.

In addition to a master’s degree in Industrial Administration, she received her Ph.D. in Information Systems from Carnegie Mellon University. Her thesis on entrepreneurial expertise was supervised by Herbert Simon, 1978 Nobel Laureate in Economics. Before joining Darden, she had been on the faculty of University of Washington’s business school, and the R. H. Smith School of Business at the University of Maryland. And before that, she was part of the founding team in five entrepreneurial ventures.

Professor Slavica Singer

J.J. Strossmayer University in Osijek, Croatia

Slavica Singer is a professor in strategy and entrepreneurship and the director of the Graduate Program in Entrepreneurship at the J.J. Strossmayer University in Osijek, Croatia. Her focus on entrepreneurship and SMEs was intensified through and after the war in 1990-1995, seeing it as an important vehicle for solving problems of developmental setbacks. From 2002, she leads Croatian Global Entrepreneurship Monitor team. Her educational and training activities are divided between university level of educational programs and executive seminars and trainings through the Center for Entrepreneurship, established as an NGO, outside of the University. In year 2000 she and her team started the first and still only one graduate program in entrepreneurship in Croatia. As a demand driven program, the tenth class has been enrolled in year 2005. She is the member of Croatian Council on Competitiveness and she leads CEPOR, SMEs Think Tank. She is very intensively involved in activities focused on democratization of Croatian society, especially through the Open Society Institute (Soros Foundation), which Croatian Board she is chairing.