Editors

Editors-in-Chief:
David B. Audretsch
Institute for Development Strategies, Indiana University, Bloomington, USA
Department of Innovation Management and Entrepreneurship, University of Klagenfurt, Austria

Christina Guenther
WHU-Otto Beisheim School of Management, Germany

Managing Editor:
Adam Lederer
DIW Berlin, Germany

Assistant Managing Editor:
Katie O'Shea
Indiana University Bloomington, USA

Founding Editors:
Zoltan J. Acs, George Mason University, USA
David B. Audretsch, Indiana University, USA

Editors:
Petra Andries
Ghent University, Belgium

Rui Baptista
Instituto Superior Técnico, University of Lisbon, Portugal 

Maksim Belitski 
University of Reading, UK 

Daniel L. Bennett
University of Louisville, USA

Christopher J. Boudreaux
Florida Atlantic University, USA

Andrew Burke
Trinity Business School, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland 

Alex Coad
Waseda Business School, Waseda University, Tokyo, Japan

Marcus Dejardin
University of Namur & UCLouvain, Belgium

Sameeksha Desai
Indiana University, Bloomington, USA

Julie Ann Elston
Oregon State University, USA

Saul Estrin
London School of Economics and Political Science, UK

Michael Fritsch
Friedrich Schiller University Jena, Germany

Maribel Guerrero
School of Public Affairs, Arizona State University, USA

Jolanda Hessels
Erasmus School of Economics, The Netherlands 

Sascha Kraus
Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy

Alexander Kritikos
DIW Berlin, Germany 

Donald F. Kuratko
Indiana University Bloomington, USA

Esteban Lafuente
Polytechnic University of Catalonia (UPC Barcelona Tech), Spain

Erik E. Lehmann
Augsburg University, Germany

Matthias Menter
Friedrich Schiller University Jena, Germany

Maria Minniti
Syracuse University, USA

Martin Obschonka
University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands

Haifeng Qian
University of Iowa, Iowa City, USA

Mark Sanders
Maastricht University School of Business and Economics, The Netherlands

Enrico Santarelli
University of Bologna, Italy

Leon Schjoedt
University of Texas Rio Grande Valley, USA

Erik Stam
Utrecht University, The Netherlands

László Szerb
University of Pécs, Faculty of Business and Economics, Hungary

Siri Terjesen
Florida Atlantic University, USA

Christina Theodoraki 
TBS Business School, France

Roy Thurik
Montpellier Business School, France

David Urbano
Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Spain

Silvio Vismara
University of Bergamo, Italy

Marco Vivarelli
Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Milano, Italy

Michael Wyrwich
University of Groningen, The Netherlands

Editorial Review Board:

Sara Alshareef, King Abdulaziz University, Saudi Arabia; Dolores Añon Higon, Universidad de Valencia, Spain; Jürgen Antony, Pforzheim Business School, Germany; Michael Espindola Araki, University of Louisville, USA; Josep-Maria Arauzo-Carod, Universitat Rovira i Virgili, Spain; Sarosh Asad, University of Groningen, the Netherlands; Fabio Bertoni, Skema Business School, France; Stefano Bianchini, Université de Strasbourg, France; Mehmet Huseyin Bilgin, Istanbul Medeniyet University, Turkey; Ekaterina S. Bjornali, NTNU - Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway; Joern Block, University of Trier, Germany; Niels Bosma, Utrecht University School of Economics, the Netherlands; Nicola Breugst, TU Munich, Germany; Steven A. Brieger, University of Sussex, UK; Ross Brown, University of St Andrews, UK; Guido Buenstorf, University of Kassel, Germany; Marco Caliendo, University of Potsdam, Germany; Uwe Cantner, Friedrich Schiller University Jena, Germany; Emanuela Carbonara, University of Bologna, Italy; Elena Cefis, University of Bergamo, Italy; Wendy Chen, Texas Tech University, USA; Claudiu Cicea, Bucharest University of Economic Studies, Romania; Alessandra Colombelli, Politecnico Torino, Italy;  Emilio Congregado, University of Huelva, Spain; Marc Cowling, University of Derby, UK; Marco Cucculelli, Università Politecnica delle Marche, Italy; Douglas Cumming, Florida Atlantic University, USA; Michael E. Cummings, University of Arkansas, USA; Dirk Czarnitzki, KU Leuven, Belgium; Mehmet Akif Demircioglu, National University of Singapore, Singapore; Pelin Demirel, Imperial College London, UK; Richard A. Devine, DePaul University, USA; Jason Francis D'Mello, Loyola Marymount University, USA; Linda F. Edelman, Bentley University, USA; Olof Ejermo, Lund University, Sweden; Johan Eklund, Swedish Entrepreneurship Forum, Sweden; José Ernesto Amorós, EGADE Business School, Mexico; Stephanie Fernhaber, Butler University, USA; Antje Fiedler, University of Auckland, New Zealand; Christian Fisch, Trier University, Germany; Frank M. Fossen, University of Nevada, Reno, USA; Neil Foster-McGregor, UNU-MERIT, The Netherlands; Georgios Fotopoulos, University of Peloponnese, Greece; Stuart Fraser, University of Warwick, UK; Jose Garcia-Quevedo, Universitat de Barcelona, Spain; Brett Anitra Gilbert, American University, USA; Areti Gkypali, Athens University of Economics and Business, Greece; Marco Grazzi, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Italy; Luca Grilli, Politecnico di Milano, Italy; Maria Joao Guedes, ISEG Lisbon School of Economics & Management, Portugal; Parisa Haim Faridian, San Diego State University, USA; Daniel Halvarsson, Ratio Institute, Sweden; Diana M. Hechavarria, University of South Florida, USA; Bradley Heim, Indiana University, USA; Yuji Honjo, Chuo University, Japan; Po-Hsuan Hsu, National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan; Winifred Huang, University of Bath, UK; Katrin Hussinger, University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg; Amy E. Ingram, Clemson University, USA; Sofia Johan, Florida Atlantic Univerisity USA; Rachida Justo, IE Business School, Spain; Masatoshi Kato, Kwansei Gakuin University, Japan; Romi Kher, City University of New York, USA; Indu Khurana, Hampden-Sydney College, USA; Torben Klarl, University of Bremen, Germany; Simon Kleinert, Maastricht University, Netherlands; Jun Koo, Korea University, Republic of Korea; Julia Korosteleva, University College London, UK; Sierdjan Koster, University of Groningen, the Netherlands; Jackie Krafft, Université Côte d’Azur, CNRS-GREDEG, France; Agnieszka Kwapisz, Montana State University, USA; Ludvig Levasseur, Indian Institute of Management Bangalore, India; João Leitão, University of Beira Interior, Portugal; Jonathan Levie, National University of Ireland Galway, Ireland; Werner Liebregts, Tilburg University, Jheronimus Academy of Data Science (JADS), the Netherlands; Feng Liu, Shandong University, China; David S. Lucas, Syracuse University, USA; Tatiana S. Manolova, Bentley University, USA; José María Millán, University of Huelva, Spain; Orietta Marsili, University of Bath, UK; Alberto Marzucchi, Gran Sasso Science Institute, Italy; Colin Mason, University of Glasgow, UK; Simona Mateut, University of Nottingham, UK; Dirk Meissner, National Research University Higher School of Economics, Russian Federation,  Joana Mendonça, IST, University of Lisbon, Portugal; Michele Meoli, University of Bergamo, Italy; Chao Miao, Salisbury University, Maryland, USA, J. Robert Mitchell, University of Western Ontario, Canada; Erik Monsen, University of Vermont, USA; Hugo Montesinos, Ursinus College, USA; Bettina Müller, University of Mannheim, Germany; Atthaphon Mumi, Mahasarakham University,Thailand; Olga Nicoara, Ursinus College, USA; Kristian Nielsen, Aalborg University, Denmark; Colm O'Gorman, Dublin City University, Ireland; Martha O'Hagan-Luff, Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland; Hiroyuki Okamuro, Hitotsubashi University, Japan;  Raquel Ortega Argilés, University of Birmingham, UK; Stine Øyna, University of Agder, Norway; Sujit Pandey, NHH Norwegian School of Economics, Norway; Georgios A. Panos, University of Glasgow, UK; Pankaj C. Patel, Villanova University, USA; Saurav Pathak, Xavier University, USA; Gabriele Pellegrino, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Italy; Iñaki Peña-Legazkue, Deusto Business School, Spain; Fabio Pieri, Università degli Studi di Trento, Italy; Mariacristina Piva, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Italy; Larry Plummer, Western University, Canada; Vivien Procher, Grenoble Ecole de Management, France; Anita Quas, University of Milan, Italy; Francesco Quatraro, University of Torino, Italy; Maija Renko, DePaul University, USA; Niels Rietveld, Erasmus University Rotterdam, the Netherlands; Vera Rocha, Copenhagen Business School, Denmark; Davud Rostam-Afschar, University of Hohenheim, Germany; Philip Roundy, University of Tennessee- Chattanooga, USA; Samuele Murtinu, Utrecht University School of Economics, The Netherlands; Pietro Santoleri, Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna, Italy; Denis Schweizer, Concordia University, Canada; Armin Schwienbacher, Skema Business School, France; Nikolaus Seitz, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, Germany; Kourosh Shafi, California State University East Bay, USA; Andrea Signori, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Italy; Éva Somogyiné Komlósi, University of Pécs, Hungary; Alina Sorgner, John Cabot University, Italy; Stjepan Srhoj, University of Split, Croatia; Pekka Stenholm, University of Turku, Finland; Alessandro Sterlacchini, Università Politecnica delle Marche, Italy; Christoph Stöckmann, University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany; Michael Stuetzer, DHBW Mannheim, Germany; Federico Tamagni, Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna, Italy; Mercedes Teruel, Universitat Rovira i Virgili, Spain; Yannick Thams, Florida Atlantic University, USA; Bram Timmermans, Norwegian School of Economics, Norway; Miguel Torres Preto, Instituto Superior Técnico, Portugal; Hien T. Tran, University of Ottawa, Canada; Tania Treibich, Maastricht University, the Netherlands; Alexandra Tsvetkova, OECD Trento Centre for Local Development, Italy; Joanna Tyrowicz, University of Warsaw, Poland; Elisa Ughetto, Politecnico di Torino, Italy; Diemo Urbig, Brandenburg University of Technology Cottbus-Senftenberg, Germany; Marilyn A. Uy, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore; Vicar S. Valencia, Indiana University South Bend, USA; Peter van der Zwan, Leiden University, the Netherlands; Mirjam van Praag, Free University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands; André van Stel, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland; Tom Vanacker, Ghent University, Belgium; Ana Venâncio, ISEG Lisbon School of Economics & Management, Portugal;  Ingrid Verheul, Erasmus University Rotterdam, the Netherlands; Antonio Vezzani, Università degli Studi Roma Tre, Italy; Theodor Vladasel, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Spain; Qingfang Wang, University of California Riverside, USA; John Watson, Advali Advisors, Australia; Nick Williams, University of Leeds, UK; Katharine Wirsching, Augsburg University, Germany; Robert Wuebker, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, USA;  R. Işıl Yavuz, Bryant University, USA; Ting Zhang, University of Baltimore, USA; Haibo Zhou, University of Nottingham Ningbo, China