Gunilla Widén, is Professor of Information Studies at the Faculty of Social Sciences, Business and Economics, Åbo Akademi University where she researches in the areas of information behaviour, information literacy, and knowledge management.

Jose Teixeira works at the Department of Information Systems at Åbo Akademi. His main research interests include open-source software, open-hardware, open-coopetition, open-innovation, and platform ecosystems.