Gerald Bast is president of the University of Applied Arts Vienna, Austria since 2000. As university president Gerald Bast initiated various new programs and departments focusing on cross-disciplinarity and the interrelation between arts, science and society. He published in the fields of university law, university management as well as educational and cultural policy and lectures globally on the role of art, creativity, innovation and higher education.

Elias G. Carayannis is Full Professor of Science, Technology, Innovation and Entrepreneurship, as well as co-Founder and co-Director of the Global and Entrepreneurial Finance Research Institute (GEFRI) and Director of Research on Science, Technology, Innovation and Entrepreneurship, European Union Research Center (EURC), at the School of Business of the George Washington University in Washington, DC.

David F. J. Campbell is Associate Professor (Privat-Dozent) in Political Science at theUniversity of Vienna; a Project Manager and Researcher at the Center for Educational Management and Higher Education Development, Department for Continuing Education Research and Educational Technologies, at Danube University Krems; a Quality Enhancement Expert and Quality Researcher at the University of Applied Arts in Vienna; and a Research Fellow (Senior Scientist) at the Institute of Science Communication and Higher Education Research (WIHO), Faculty for Interdisciplinary Studies (iff), Alpen-Adria-University of Klagenfurt.