Candace Jones is an Associate Professor at the Carrol School of Management, Boston College. Her research interests focus on cultural frameworks, cultural meaning and social structures. She is currently on the editorial review boards of Organization Science, Strategic Management Journal, Journal of Management Studies and Organization Studies, where she was a Senior Editor from 2008-2012. Professor Jones was elected Division Chair for Organization and Management Division of the Academy of Management 2012-2015, and served as Representative at Large from 2008-2010.

Mark Lorenzen is a Professor at the Copenhagen Business School. He researches relations between innovation and economic organization in networks, projects, and clusters. Mark has published widely, convened sessions at DRUID, AOM, EGOS and AAG, raised extensive research funding and received awards for research excellence. He is editor-in-chief of Industry and Innovation and editor of Routledge Studies in Industial Dynamics. He is a member of the executive committee of the DRUID Society, is a keynote speaker and commentator and has received CBS award for excellence in research dissemination.

Dr Jonathan Sapsed is Academic Director of the Brighton Fuse project. He is a Principal Research Fellow at CENTRIM in University of Brighton's Business School and was an Innovation Fellow of the Advanced Institute of Management Research (AIM). He has researched creativity and innovation in digital creative firms in Silicon Valley in the US, UK video games developers, as well as companies such as Sun Microsystems, Ericsson, and QinetiQ. His research is published in journals such as Research Policy and Organization Studies.