David F.J. Campbell is a Higher Education Researcher at the University for
Continuing Education Krems in Austria; Associate Professor for Comparative
Political Science at the University of Vienna; and a Quality Enhancement Expert,
Quality Researcher and Publication Strategist at the University of Applied Arts in
Vienna.

Elias G. Carayannis is a Full Professor of Science, Technology, Innovation and
Entrepreneurship as well as the co-founder and co-director of the Global and
Entrepreneurial Finance Research Institute (GEFRI) and the director of the
European Union Research Center (EURC) at the George Washington University
School of Business (GWSB).

Carayannis and Campbell jointly developed the theory of Quadruple and
Quintuple Helix Innovation Systems.