Professor Farrington is a Professor in the Department of Business Management at the Nelson Mandela University. She has over 25 years of lecturing and research experience in the fields of Small Business, Family Business and Entrepreneurship. She lectures at undergraduate and postgraduate levels and has supervised over 20 postgraduate research projects at Masters and PhD levels. She has authored 46 accredited journal articles and has presented more than 100 papers at international and national conferences. She is a National Research Foundation (NRF) rated researcher and is an active member of the NMU Family Business Unit.

Riyaad Ismail is a PhD researcher in the Department of Management at the University of Antwerp (Belgium). He completed his Master’s Degree Cum Laude at Nelson Mandela University (South Africa), focusing on student entrepreneurship support at South African public universities, for which he received the award for the best overall masters student in the School of Management Sciences. His research interests include international entrepreneurship, organizational sponsorship (e.g., business incubators, business centres) and student entrepreneurship. His PhD research focuses on (student) entrepreneurial intention, and internationalization behavior.

Dr Alex Bignotti heads ANSES, the African Network of Social Entrepreneurship Scholars, a scholarly community aiming to advance social entrepreneurship teaching and research in Africa and facilitate the training of scholars in the same field. Alex is currently a senior lecturer in social entrepreneurship at the University of Pretoria. He has a keen interest in entrepreneurship as a catalyst for social change. His work currently focuses on social entrepreneurship, especially in an African context. Under the same research umbrella, his earlier work has also focussed on entrepreneurial intentions, entrepreneurial personality and entrepreneurship education, especially with a focus on the youth and disadvantaged individuals.

Saskia Crucke is an Assistant Professor at Ghent University. She received her PhD in Business Economics from Ghent University and the University of Antwerp in 2016. Her research topics are corporate social responsibility, social entrepreneurship and sustainable HRM. Her research has been published in several academic journals, including the Journal of Management Studies, Journal of Business Venturing, and Journal of Business Ethics and Environment and Behavior.

Mirjam Knockaert is an Associate Professor at Ghent University and visiting professor at the Technical University of Munich (Germany). She received her PhD in Business Administration from Ghent University in 2005. Her research interests are with entrepreneurship, specifically entrepreneurship in teams, corporate governance and academic entrepreneurship/technology transfer. Her research was published in international journals, including the Academy of Management Journal, Journal of Business Venturing, Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice, Small Business Economics and Journal of Management Studies.