Slavo Radosevic is Professor of Industry and Innovation Studies at the University College London. His main research interests are in science, technology upgrading and innovation policy in Europe, with particular reference to central and eastern Europe (CEE) and emerging economies. He has published extensively in international journals in these areas and has edited several volumes on these issues. He favours empirically oriented and policy relevant research projects, based on neo-Schumpeterian economics. He acts as an expert for the EC, OECD, UNESCO, UNIDO, World Bank and UNECE. He also had significant policy-making experience in Croatia and ex-Yugoslavia at the highest policy level. He has been a special advisor to the EC DG Commissioner for Regional and Urban Policy (2015-2019). He tries to make his own contribution to sustainable and more just world.