John Thompson is Emeritus Professor of Entrepreneurship at the University of Huddersfield and a Visiting Professor of Social Entrepreneurship at Anglia Ruskin University. He has previously been a Visiting Professor in Australia, New Zealand and Finland. He is a member of the Executive Committee of The Case Centre and works with a number of other charities. His published work spans both strategy and entrepreneurship, and in 2009 he received the Queen's Award for Enterprise Promotion.
Jonathan M. Scott is Associate Professor at Newcastle Business School, Northumbria University. He has been a visiting Research Fellow at the University of Turku, Finland. His research interests include access to finance for SMEs. He has published a number of articles in leading academic journals.
Frank Martin has over 25 years' experience teaching business strategy and entrepreneurship principally at the University of Stirling where he held the position of Senior Teaching Fellow in Entrepreneurship in Business and Organization. In addition, he has held the position of a Senior Honorary Research Fellow at the Adam Smith Business School at the University of Glasgow and a senior external examiner in business strategy at Henley Business School.