DR JAVIER CARRILLO-HERMOSILLA is currently Head of the Department of Economic Environment and Executive Director of the Centre for Eco-Intelligent Management at IE Business School, Spain. He is also a Visiting Researcher at the University of Cambridge and an Independent Expert assisting the European Commission with the evaluation of FP7 proposals for Theme 6 'Environment (including climate change)'. He has dedicated the last few years to researching sustainable technological change and new policy and management models that address the environmental challenge in an innovative way. His advances in the field are expounded in numerous articles and works on environmental sustainability and technological change, published in international journals. Furthermore, he regularly contributes to leading newspapers and media and participates as a speaker in conferences on business and the environment.

DR PABLO DEL RÍO GONZÁLEZ is Research Fellow (tenured researcher) at the Institute for Public Goods and Policies (IPP) of the Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC), Spain. His research focuses on the factors influencing environmental technology change in firms, on climate change mitigation measures and renewable energy support schemes, particularly emission trading and tradable green certificates schemes. He has collaborated in several EU and national projects. He has more than 80 publications, more than half of them in international journals.

DR TOTTIKÖNNÖLÄ is Scientific Officer at the Institute for Prospective Technological Studies of the Joint Research Centre in the European Commission. He is also Adjunct Professor of Operations and Technology Management at the IE Business School and Research Fellow at its Centre for Eco-Intelligent Management. Könnölä has coordinated and supported many strategic decision-making processes in close collaboration with industry management, research directors and policy-makers to align future R&D priorities and innovation strategies with sustainability goals. His work on issues like, environmental management, strategic intelligence, foresight, evolutionary economics and technological change has been published widely.