Veronika Bikse is Prof. emeritus, Doctor in Economics (Dr. oec. since 1978). She is a leading researcher at the Institute of Management Science at Liepaja University. From 1996 to 2009, she was the head of the Department of Economic Theory of the University of Latvia and the director of the professional programme Secondary school teacher of economics and the director of the Economic Education Centre. Her skills and competences were acquired as a Manager of Tempus project, an international economic education programme organized by the National Council of Economics Education, USA, being an expert of the European Commission and taking part to prepare the final report “Education for Entrepreneurship.” Her main research interests relate to the analysis of digital and entrepreneurial competencies, youth employability in the labour market and digital transformation context, innovative start-ups, eco-innovation trends and bioeconomy policy. She is the author of more than 27 scientific and text books and 280 papers and articles, including 111 scientific research papers. At present, she is an expert of the Latvian Ministry of Education and Science, a member of the Department of Agrarian Economy of the Academy of Latvian Agriculture and Forest Sciences, and a member of the Nordic Association of Agricultural Scientists.