Cultural Innovation and New Ecosystems

Speaker biographies

Rikke Toft Nørgård is currently working as an Associate Professor in Educational Design & Technology at Danish School of Education, Aarhus University, focusing on the intersections of humanities, design thinking, higher education, culture, educational philosophy, hybrid pedagogy and digital education.

Elias Carayannis is a professor of Information Systems and Technology Management as well as the co-founder and co-director of the Global and Entrepreneurial Finance Research Institute (GEFRI) and the director of research on Science, Technology, Innovation and Entrepreneurship at the European Union Research Center (EURC) at the George Washington University School of Business (GWSB). Dr. Carayannis’s teaching and research activities focus on the areas of strategic Government-University-Industry R&D partnerships, technology road-mapping, technology transfer and commercialization, international science and technology policy, technological entrepreneurship and regional economic development.