Adam Szirmai's research focuses on the measurement and analysis of technological change, productivity and growth in manufacturing in a developing country context. He has been involved in research projects in manufacturing in Indonesia, China, South Korea, Tanzania, Zambia, South Africa and Japan. In 2001, Palgrave Press published his volume on Tanzanian industrialization, co-edited with Paul Lapperre entitled The Industrial Experience of Tanzania. His textbook on development studies, The Dynamics of Socio-economic Development was published by Cambridge University Press in 2005.

Wim Naude is a graduate of the University of Warwick. He has been research officer at the University of Oxford, and director of research at North-West University, South Africa. He has also served as a board member of the International Council for Small Business. His research focuses on global economic development, geographical economics, and entrepreneurship. He is editor of the book Entrepreneurship and Economic Development, published by Palgrave Macmillan. He has been guest editor of a special issue of Small Business Economics devoted to entrepreneurship and economic development, and of the European Journal of Development Research, dealing with female entrepreneurship in developing countries.

Micheline Goedhuys holds a Ph.D. in economics from the University of Leuven, Belgium. She has worked as a consultant for several international organizations such as the World Bank and the ILO. She has published widely in international journals on topics related to entrepreneurship, small business development, and innovation and firm performance in developing countries, with a particular focus on Africa. She has recently been guest editor of Structural Change and Economic Dynamics and the European Journal of Development Research for a special issue on "Micro-evidence on Innovation and Development".

Adam Szirmai, UNU-MERIT and Maastricht University
Wim Naudé, UNU-WIDER
Micheline Goedhuys, UNU-MERIT and Maastricht University
David B. Audretsch, Indiana University
Mark Sanders, Utrecht University
Alice H. Amsden, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Erik Stam, Utrecht University
André van Stel, University of Amsterdam.
Jaap Voeten, University of Tilburg
Job de Haan, University of Tilburg
Gerard de Groot, University of Tilburg
Mulu Gebreeyesus, UNU-MERIT
Elif Bascavusoglu-Moreau, Imperial College Business School
Otto Toivanen, Helsinki School of Economics
Sunil Mani, Centre for Development Studies, Trivandrum, Kerala
Î. Semih Akçomak, UNU-MERIT, Maastricht University
Suma Athreye, Brunel University