Professor Erkko Autio is Chair in Technology Venturing at Imperial College Business School. Previously, he was professor at Aalto University; HEC Lausanne; Visiting Professor (part time) at Tilburg University School of Economics and Management and Visiting Professor at CERN. He was a founding member of the Global Entrepreneurship Monitor GEM (www.gemconsortium.org) and served in the Global Entrepreneurship Research Association. He is a co-author of the Global Entrepreneurship Index GEDI (www.thegedi.org) that profiles country-level systems of entrepreneurship, as well as the European Index of Digital Entrepreneurship Systems EIDES. Most recently, he was a co-founder of Wicked Acceleration Labs (www.wickedacceleration.org). His research focuses on digitalisation and its impact on entrepreneurial ecosystems, innovation ecosystems, commons ecosystems, new venture internationalisation, business model innovation, sustainable business models, and entrepreneurial resilience in the face of Covid-19 (www.entresilience.com). He has been cited in some 400-500 news media globally. He has 43 041 citations in Google Scholar as of August 25, 2021 (h-index 78, i10-index 197). He has worked widely with industry and government in Europe, Asia and South America. He has been recognised as one of the top 50 most impactful management scholars globally (graduation 1995 or later; Aguinis et al, 2012). New ventures started by his students have created some €13-14 Bn of new market capitalisation.