João Leitão, Ph.D.

João Leitão, Ph.D.

Co-Founder

Academic background in Economics.

João Leitão, holds a doctorate in Economics from UBI, with an aggregation in Entrepreneurship and Technological changes by, IST, University of Lisbon (UL), Portugal. He is an associated professor with aggregation at UBI, director of the UBI Executive program, Business School. He is a researcher at NECE, Research Center in Business Sciences, UBI. He is a Researcher associated with CEG-IST – Center for Management Studies of IST & ICS – Institute of Social Sciences, UL. His research interests are: Entrepreneurship; Innovation; and Organizational Economics. Editor of the Springer Book Series: Studies in Entrepreneurship, Structural Change and Industrial Dynamics. Member of the Editorial Board of Sustainability, MDPI; The International Review on Public and Nonprofit Marketing, Springer; Revista Portuguesa de Estudos Regionais, APDR; Public Policy Portuguese Journal, UMPP; Discover Sustainability, Springer; Challenges, MDPI; and Businesses, MDPI. Member of the MIT Technology Review Global Panel, a community of business professionals. He is co-inventor of 1 patent in the field of brain stimulation.