Handbook of Cyber-Development, Cyber-Democracy, and Cyber-Defense

Dr. Elias G. Carayannis is Full Professor of Science, Technology, Innovation and Entrepreneurship, as well as co-Founder and co-Director of the Global and Entrepreneurial Finance Research Institute (GEFRI) and Director of Research on Science, Technology, Innovation and Entrepreneurship, European Union Research Center, (EURC) at the School of Business of the George Washington University in Washington, DC. Dr. Carayannis' 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.Dr. Marios-Panagiotis Efthymiopoulos is the Founder and CEO of Strategy International, a non-profit think tank in the service of global education, exchange knowledge and consulting in political, economic and strategic affairs. Dr. Efthymiopoulos has held a variety of international, academic and professional positions, namely at the Center for Transatlantic Relations, SAIS, Johns Hopkins University; George Washington University, Business School, EU Center for Excellence; Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars; and the Department of Social and Political Sciences, University of Cyprus. A frequently invited speaker, he has consulted to such organizations as the Hellenic Homeland Security Police, Joint War College of Greece, NATO Maritime Interdiction Operation and Training Center (NMIOTC), the UN and NATO training corps and the NATO Rapid Deployable Corps in Thessaloniki, Greece. David F.J. Campbell has appointments at the Faculty for Interdisciplinary Studies, Alpen-Adria University; the University of Applied Arts, Vienna and the Department of Political Science, University of Vienna, where his research specialties include research financing, research evaluation and the science of science; comparative analyses political systems in democracies and the interaction between politics and economy; supranationality and empirical applications of systems theory and cybernetics. He has served as a Visiting Research Scholar in the Department of Management Science at The George Washington University; researcher and Lecturer at the Institute for Advanced Studies in Vienna; and visiting researcher at Georgetown University's Department of Government.