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Renu Agarwal is Professor in Management at the UTS Business School, Sydney. Her research interests are quite diverse including the disciplinary fields of service innovation, service value networks, supply chain management, dynamic capability building, management practices, innovation and productivity. Her research study and teaching include strategic supply chain management, innovation and entrepreneurship, fostering and measuring dynamic management capabilities that enhance organisational and managerial capabilities.

Eric Patterson is a Director for a multinational consulting firm advising major government organisations on business planning and strategy execution. He works across multiple levels of Australian government on programmes and priorities delivering new infrastructure and services, and improvements in the workings of government. His expertise spans government portfolio management, investment planning and programme assurance in transport, education, justice/defence, civil government, and energy and utilities.

Sancheeta Pugalia is a final-year Doctorate student in the School of Information, Systems, and Modelling at University Technology Sydney, Australia. Her area of expertise is entrepreneurship and innovation. Building on her expertise, her doctorate research focusses on looking at women entrepreneurs in the technology sector where she closely monitors the root causes of lower participation rate of women entrepreneurs in this industry. Prior to pursuing her PhD, she did her Master by Research programme from the Indian Institute of Technology Madras, India, and focussed her research in the area of student entrepreneurship.

Roy Green is Emeritus Professor and Special Innovation Advisor at the University of Technology Sydney. Roy graduated with first-class honours from the University of Adelaide and gained a PhD in Economics from the University of Cambridge, where he was also a Research Fellow. He has worked in universities, business and government in Australia and overseas, including as Dean of the UTS Business School, Dean of the Macquarie Graduate School of Management and Dean and Vice-President for Research at the National University of Ireland, Galway. He is also a Conjoint Professor at the University of Newcastle and a Fellow of the Irish Academy of Management.