Rudiger Wink Author & Editor

Shantha Liyanage is Associate Professor in the Management and Employment Relations Department, The University of Auckland, New Zealand, where he leads the Technology, Knowledge and Innovation Management Program. He has worked in industry, government, and academic institutions around the world in the management of knowledge, innovation, and technology, and served as Principal Research Fellow of the Australian Research Council's funded Special Research Center for Reseach Policy. Previously on the faculty of the University of Queensland, he has published widely in the field. His most recent book is Serendipitous and Strategic Innovation (Praeger, 2006).

Rudiger Wink is Professor of International Economics and serves as Director of the international program at the Hochschule fur Technik, Wirtschaft und Kulture (University of Applied Sciences), Leipzig, Germany. He also holds the positions of Senior Research Fellow at the Rurh Research Institute for Innovation and Regional Policy, Faculty of Economics at the University of Bochum, and Director of the European Program at Cologne Business School. He has published in the fields of institutional, regional, and environmental economics, innovation, and knowledge management.

Markus Nordberg is the Resources Coordinator of the ATLAS project at CERN, Switzerland, where his responsibilities include budget planning and resources allocation for the ATLAS project. He has also served as Visiting Senior Research Fellow at the Centrum voor Bedrijfseconomie, Faculty ESP-Solvay Business School, University of Brussels, and as a member of the Association of Finnish Parliament Members and Scientists, TUTKAS.