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- Elias G. CARAYANNIS caraye@gwu.edu
 Elias
G. Carayannis (PhD, MBA, BScEE, CPMMA) is Full Professor of Science,
Technology, Innovation and Entrepreneurship at the Department of Information
Systems and Technology Management, School of Business, The George Washington
University, Washington, DC 20052 (U.S.A.). He is Director of Research,
Science, Technology, Innovation and Entrepreneurship, European Union
Research Center (EURC) (also George Washington University), and Co-founder
and Co-Director of the Global and Entrepreneurial Finance Research Institute
(GEFRI). His 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. He is Editor-in-Chief of: "The Springer Journal
of the Knowledge Economy (JKEC)" and "The IGI International
Journal of Social Ecology and Sustainable Development (IJSESD)".
Dr. Carayannis can be contacted under: caraye@gwu.edu
(E-Mail); 001 202 994 4062 (Telephone); his BIO URL is: http://business.gwu.edu/faculty/elias_carayannis.cfm
- Otmar HÖLL otmar.hoell@oiip.ac.at
 Otmar
Höll is Director of the Austrian Institute of International Affairs
(oiip), guest-professor and lecturer at Universities in Austria (esp.
University of Vienna, Visiting Professor at the Danube University Krems
/ DUK) and abroad, trainer in political education. He also took a degree
in psycho-therapy and group-dynamics. He has widely published books
and articles, esp. in the field of national and international foreign
and security, development and environment policy, and globalization.
He has been in the editorial and advisory boards of national and international
scientific journals and is still an activist in developmental NGOs.
His main research areas are: Austrian foreign and security policy, European
Integration, Globalization and international system dynamics, policies
regarding development and environment (sustainability), comprehensive
security, crisis and conflict research, political psychology. Main institutional
web link: http://www.oiip.ac.at
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Sàndor
Hasenöhrl is the founder of the “Democracy Ranking”
project and our idea provider for the planned follow-up
initiative “Global Democracy Award”. He is an
entrepreneur in the computer and software industry.
Christa Pölzlbauer leads the project “Democracy
Ranking” and is executive director of the “Global
Democracy Award” association. She lives and works
in Vienna.
Peter
Arbenz is consultant for strategy development and management.
He was president of the Swiss Association for a Global Democracy
Ranking, city councilor of Winterthur and director of the
Swiss Office for Refugees.
David
F. J. Campbell is a Research Fellow at the Institute of Science
Communication and Higher Education Research (WIHO), Faculty for
Interdisciplinary Studies (IFF), University of Klagenfurt; Lecturer
in Political Science at the University of Vienna; and Quality
Manager at the University of Applied Arts in Vienna. Campbell
co-edited “Demokratiequalität in Österreich: Zustand
und Entwicklungsperspektiven” (Leske + Budrich, 2002) (“Democracy
Quality in Austria”) and “Knowledge Creation, Diffusion,
and Use in Innovation Networks and Knowledge Clusters” (Praeger,
2006), and his articles on innovation, politics and society have
been published in several international journals. Campbell teaches
at the University of Klagenfurt and the University of
Paul
Pölzlbauer is a student of economics at the Vienna University
of Economics and Business. He has participated and coordinated
several projects in Vienna. Recently he is also concerned with
the organization and the data analysis of the Democracy Ranking.
Thorsten
D. Barth is a political scientist and an academic entrepreneur
in Austria. As an academic entrepreneur he advises in civic education,
develops new strategies for public relations and creates new ideas
for quality improvements and innovation. His task and goal is
to create new knowledge for a sustainable future. His last publication
was “The Idea of a Green New Deal in a Quintuple Helix Model
of Knowledge, Know-how and Innovation” in the International
Journal of Social Ecology and Sustainable Development (January-March
2011, Vol. 2, No. 1, pp. 1-14).
Patrick
Scherhaufer is project researcher and lecturer at the Institute of Forest,
Environmental, and Natural Resource Policy at the University of Natural
Resources and Life Sciences Vienna (