Borut Roncevic is Professor of Sociology at the School of Advanced Social Studies, Nova Gorica, Slovenia, and the Faculty of Information Studies, Novo Mesto, Slovenia, and senior research fellow at Rudolfovo - Science and Technology Centre of Novo mesto, Slovenia. His main research interests are sociological theory, post-socialist transformations, regional innovation systems and information society. He is a fellow of the Regional Studies Association and a member of the Executive Committee of the International Sociological Association. He was Fulbright Scholar-in-Residence at Troy University (United States), Marie Curie fellow at Aalborg University (Denmark), and has held the Jean Monnet Chair on the topic of Cultural Political Economy of Europe 2020 (2016-2019), and was the head of Jean Monnet Centres of Excellence on the topics of “Technologies and Innovations in Regional Development” (2017-2020) and “Strategic Observatory of Europe 2030” (2019-2022). He has been a visiting scholar at universities and institutes in the United States, United Kingdom, Germany, Russia, Denmark, Ireland, Lebanon and Croatia.
Tamara Besednjak Valic Is Associate Professor of Sociology at the School of Advanced Social Studies, Nova Gorica, Slovenia, and the Faculty of Information Studies, Novo Mesto, Slovenia, and senior scientific associate at Rudolfovo - Science and Technology Centre of Novo mesto, Slovenia. Her main research interest are post-socialist transformations in context with development of regional innovation systems. She is a National association representative of Slovenia with ISA. She was a board member of Junior Sociologists Network of ISA. She has been a visiting scholar at universities and institutes in the United States, Italy, Finland and Russia.