Associate Professor Vanessa Ratten is the Programme Coordinator of the Entrepreneurship and Innovation degrees at La Trobe Business School, La Trobe University (Australia). She has previously been on the business faculties of Deakin University, Duquesne University (Pittsburgh), Queensland University of Technology and the University of Queensland. She has guest edited journals including Education and Training, Team Performance, Journal of Business & Industrial Marketing, Journal of Management and Organization, Thunderbird International Business Review and the International Entrepreneurship and Management Journal. Her current research focus is on entrepreneurship, innovation and technology. She has authored or edited several scholarly and professional books on diverse topics in entrepreneurship, with publishers like Springer, Palgrave Macmillan and Routledge.