Dennis Leyden is Associate Professor of Economics at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro (UNCG). Current research focuses on public and private sector entrepreneurship and on the role of universities in furthering such. Past research includes work on public education funding equity and accountability. His books include Adequacy, Accountability, and the Future of Public Education Funding (Springer 2005) and Government's Role in Innovation (Kluwer 1992). He is privileged to have made plenary presentations at the Universitat de Barcelona, Università di Torino, Universität Augsburg, and the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe in Geneva, Switzerland.
Albert N. Link is Professor of Economics at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro (UNCG). Professor Link's research focuses on entrepreneurship, technology and innovation policy, the economics of R&D, and policy/program evaluation. He is currently the Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Technology Transfer. Among his more than 40 books, some of the more recent ones are: Handbook for University Technology Transfer (University of Chicago Press, in production), Valuing an Entrepreneurial Enterprise (Oxford University Press, 2012), and Public Goods, Public Gains (Oxford University Press, 2011). His other research consists of more than 130 peer-reviewed articles in such journals as the American Economic Review, the Journal of Political Economy, and the Review of Economics and Statistics. Among other accomplishments, Professor Link was tapped by the State Department of the United States in 2007 to serve as the U.S. Representative to the United Nation's Economic Commission for Europe (UNECE) in Geneva (2007-2012).