Jasmina Berbegal-Mirabent holds a PhD and MSc. in Industrial Engineering and Engineering Management from Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC). She is currently working as an associate professor at the Universitat Internacional de Catalunya. Among others, she has been a Visting Scholar at UCL School of Management (UK), King's College London (UK), Politecnico di Milano (Italy), and a Fulbright Visiting Scholar at the University of California Berkeley (US). Her research interests are in the areas of strategic planning and management of higher education institutions, entrepreneurship, innovation and knowledge and technology transfer.