Juan Uribe-Toril obtained a PhD from the University of Almeria in Economics, a Masters in Human Resources from the Financial Studies Centre of Madrid, a Law Degree from the Complutense University of Madrid, and a Diploma in Business Law from the CEU San Pablo de Madrid. In the past, he was a director of the Business Incubators Centers Network in the regional government of Andalusia and was responsible for European Projects on Andalucia Emprende, Public Foundation. He has been a professor at the University of Almería since 2008 and a collaborator on several European and American research projects, focusing his field of study on local development, entrepreneurship, and tourism and business incubators. He was a visiting scholar at the University of Covilha (Portugal), Bifröst University (Iceland) and Vysoká Škola Manažmentu (Slovakia). He is a co-author of several impact books and has been published in the most prestigious scientific journals such as the Journal of Hospitality & Tourism Research, Financial Innovation, and the Journal of Business Economics and Management. He is also currently the coordinator of the Ibero-American Network of Researchers in Social Entrepreneurship and Co-development (RIBERESCO), participating in more than twenty universities and business schools. He has also been an editorial board member of the journal Revista de Ciencias Sociales (Q2 SJR) since 2012.