Harvard professor, Michael Porter has been one of the most influential figures in strategic management research over the last three decades. He infused a rigorous theoretical framework of industrial organization economics with the then still embryonic fie

Robert Huggins is Professor of Management and Policy at the Cardiff School of Management, University of Wales Institute, Cardiff and Founding Director of the Centre for International Competitiveness. He is the originator of the European Competitiveness Index, the UK Competitiveness Index and the co-founder - along with Hiro Izushi - of the World Knowledge Competitiveness Index. He is the author of two previous books - The Business of Networks (2000, Ashgate) and Competing for Knowledge (2007, Routledge).

Hiro Izushi, PhD (University of California at Berkeley), is Senior Lecturer in Innovation at Economics and Strategy Group, Aston Business School, and Co-Director of the Centre for International Competitiveness. He is a member of International House of Japan, having been awarded Nitobe Fellowship for Japanese Social Scientists. He is the co-author of Competing for Knowledge (2007, Routledge) with Robert Huggins.