Dr. Shlomo Maital is an emeritus professor, and heads the Zvi Griliches Research Data Center, at the Samuel Neaman Institute for Advanced Studies in Science & Technology, Technion-Israel Institute of Technology. He was the academic director of TIM-Technion Institute of Management, Israel's leading executive leadership development institute and a pioneer in action-learning methods, from 1998 – 2009, where he worked with some 200 companies, including global firms and startups, and a thousand managers and entrepreneurs. He was summer Visiting Professor for 20 years in MIT Sloan School of Management's Management of Technology M.Sc. program, teaching over 1,000 R&D engineers from 40 countries from 1984 to 2003. He is the author, co-author or editor of 17 books, including Dismantle: Build Your Personal Creativity Machine (2018), Innovate your Innovation Process (World Scientific, 2016); Smartonomics (SAGE India, 2017); Cracking the Creativity Code (SAGE India, 2014); The Imagination Ladder (Mandarin edition: Hangzhu Books, 2014); Mapping National Innovation Ecosystems (Elgar, UK, 2014); Technion Nation (2012) (incuding Mandarin and Vietnamese editions), Global Risk/Global Opportunity (SAGE 2009), Innovation Management (Sage, 2007; 2nd edition, 2012); and Executive Economics (The Free Press 1994), translated into seven languages. He was co-founder of SABE-Society for Advancement of Behavioral Economics and was an early proponent of behavioral economics, with his initial article on economic psychology published in 1972. His on-line specialization in Startup Entrepreneurship, “Cracking the Creativity Code” is offered by Coursera and has over 30,000 students enrolled in its four courses.