ECIE 2026
21st European Conference on Innovation and Entrepreneurship
Biographies
Below are the ECIE Biographies of the Conference and Programme Chairs, Key Note Speakers and Mini-Track Chairs.
Conference and Programme Chairs
Florinda Matos is a Professor of General Management at ISCTE Business School, ISCTE – University Institute of Lisbon, and an associate research fellow at DINÂMIA’CET – IUL – Centre for Socioeconomic and Territorial Studies, where she leads several international projects, including the relevant CoVE Future Skills Factory. As the editor of several journals and books, she has authored numerous works on knowledge and intellectual capital management, resilience, sustainability, and digital transformation. She is a distinguished conference chair for numerous conferences in the fields of intellectual capital and knowledge management, as well as innovation. Additionally, she is a board member of the Institute of Public and Social Policies at Iscte, the founder and president of the ICAA – Intellectual Capital Association, and Portugal’s ambassador for The New Club of Paris.
Mini Track Chairs
Marco Lamas holds a Post-Doc in Education (Entrepreneurship), PhD in Education (Entrepreneurship) and Bsc in International Relations. He is Senior Professor at ISLA – Polytechnic University of Management and Technology where he Leads the Business and Innovation LAB (BIL) and is the Director of the master’s degree in management, and the Director of the Postgraduate course in Entrepreneurship: Tech Startups. Marco is also a Researcher, member of CEI and CEOS.PP, both from ISCAP -P.Porto and also member of the Research Centre of ISLA-IPGT. He is a Founder member of SHINE – Scaling Higher Education Innovation for Europe (https://shine-project.eu/).
Carlos Miguel Oliveira has a Ph.D. in Management. He is a Coordinating Professor and Director of the School of Management at ISLA – Polytechnic University of Management and Technology. He is editor-in-chief of the Management in Review Journal and a collaborating member of CEOS.PP – Centre for Organisational and Social Studies. In recent years, he has published several articles in journals and conferences. He is a reviewer in some journals in the management area.
Paul Coyle is the Director of the Entrepreneurial Mindset Network, a global community of practice, with members in 107 countries, and special interest groups for the application of the entrepreneurial mindset in business, education, healthcare and social entrepreneurship. The Network’s vision is that everybody, not just entrepreneurs, can benefit from having an entrepreneurial mindset including employees in the public, private and not-for-profit sectors. An entrepreneurial mindset enables each person to make their unique contribution to the world. Paul is an expert in the entrepreneurial mindset, innovation, entrepreneurship, leadership and organisational change.