Maria José Sousa
(Ph.D. in Industrial Management) is a University Professor at ISCTE, a research fellow at Business Research Unit, and a collaborator of IPPS-ISCTE. She is also an expert in digital learning and digital skills, as she has assumed a Post-Doc position from 2016-2018, researching that field, with several publications in journals with high impact factor (Journal of Business Research, Journal of Grid Computing, Future Generation Computer Systems, and others). And is collaborating as an expert in digital skills, with Delloite (Brussels) for a request of the European Commission in the creation of a new category regarding digital skills to be integrated with the European Innovation Scoreboard (EIS). She was a member of the Coordinator Committee of the Ph.D. in Management at Universidade Europeia. She was also a Senior Researcher at GEE (Research Office) in the Portuguese Ministry of Economy, responsible for Innovation, Research, and Entrepreneurship Policies, and a Knowledge and Competencies Manager at AMA, IP, Public Reform Agency (Ministry of the Presidency and the Ministers Council). She was also a Project Manager at the Ministry of Labor and Employment, responsible for Innovation, and Evaluation and Development of the Qualifications Projects. Her research interests currently are public policies, health policies, innovation, and information science. She has developed major research in the innovation policies with articles published in high-level journals (as the European Planning Studies, Information Systems Frontiers, Systems Research, and Behavioral Science, Computational and Mathematical Organization Theory, Future Generation Computer Systems, and others). She is also the guest-editor of more than 5 Special Issues from Springer and Elsevier. She has participated in European projects of innovation transfer (for example, as Ambassador of EUWIN, and Co-coordinating an Erasmus + project with ATO – Chamber of Commerce of Ankara about entrepreneurship) and is also an External Expert of COST Association – European Cooperation in Science and Technology, and President of the ISO/TC 260 – Human Resources Management, representing Portugal in the International Organization for Standardization.