Ivan Turok is Executive Director, Economic Performance and Development Unit, Human Sciences Research Council, South Africa; Honorary Professor, Universities of Cape Town and Glasgow

David Bailey is Professor of Industrial Strategy, Economics & Strategy Group, Aston University, UK

Jennifer Clark is Associate Professor of Public Policy, Georgia Institute of Technology, USA

Jun Du is Professor of Economics, Economics & Strategy Group, Aston Business School, Aston University, UK

Ugo Fratesi is Associate Professor of Regional Economics, Department of Architecture, Built Environment and Construction Engineering, Politecnico di Milano, Milano, Italy

Michael Fritsch is Professor of Economics, Friedrich Schiller University Jena, Germany

John Harrison is Reader in Human Geography, Department of Geography, Loughborough University, UK

Tom Kemeny is Lecturer in Human Geography, University of Southampton, UK

Dieter Kogler is Lecturer in Economic Geography, University College Dublin, Ireland

Arnoud Lagendijk is Professor of Economic Geography, Radboud University Nijmegen, The Netherlands

Tomasz Mickiewicz is Professor of Economics, Aston University, Birmingham, UK

Ernest Miguelez is Junior Researcher, CNRS, GREThA-University of Bordeaux, France

Stefano Usai is Director, Centre for North South Economic Research (CRENoS), University of Cagliari, Italy

Fiona Wishlade is Director, European Policies Research Centre, University of Strathclyde, Scotland