Dr. Ioannis Kinias is an Assistant Professor of Business Policy in the Department of Business Administration of the University of the Aegean and the Director of the Research Laboratory of “Management, Entrepreneurship & Innovative Education (M.E.I.E. Lab)”. He graduated from the Department of Mechanical Engineering in the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (2002), holds a master’s degree (MSc) in Engineering Management from the Brunel University (UK) (2004) and a Ph.D. in Business Strategy from the Department of Business Administration in the University of the Aegean (2012). He has also completed post-doctoral research (Post Doc) in Business Policy, in the Department of Business Administration, in the University of the Aegean, as a Research Fellow of the State Scholarships Foundation (2013-2015). He has taught at undergraduate and postgraduate level in the University of Central Greece (2013) and the University of the Aegean (2013- now). His research interests focus on the fields of Entrepreneurship, Family Business and Business Strategy. In these research fields, he has published 38 articles in scientific journals and international conferences as well as his own book in Family Business (2022). He has also participated in 10 research projects, in 6 of which he worked as scientific coordinator. He is also the Official Collaborator of the Successful Transgenerational Entrepreneurship Practices (STEP) Project Global Consortium (“SPGC”) in Greece, for the monitoring of Family Business. Finally, he is the founder and coordinator of the annual event “Entrepreneurship Day” for the development and presentation of business concepts by student teams and their participation in the National University Students Competition “Junior Achievement – JA Greece”.