Cristina Sousa is Assistant Professor and Director at the Department of Political Economy at Iscte – Instituto Universitario de Lisboa, where she is also the director of the Master in Environmental and Sustainability Studies. She is an integrated researcher at DINAMIA'CET - Iscte. Her research interests include innovation processes and their socioeconomic effects; the dynamics of knowledge and innovation networks; entrepreneurship and new business models; and the transition to sustainable systems.