Experience in education and economic guidance, and economic training for different audiences. Graduated in Economic Sciences, PhD and Master in Development Economics and Rural Development. Coordinator of Undergraduate Courses in Accounting Sciences, Economic Sciences and Financial Management, professor in undergraduate courses at the School of Management and Business, in specializations and collaborating professor at the PPG in Economics, at Unisinos.

Leader of the Research Group on Economic Dynamics of Innovation (GDIN) since 2013. Topics of interest: growth, economic development and innovation technological paradigms and adoption of innovations competition dynamics and sectoral studies firms' dynamics and innovation capabilities, university-firm interaction, proximities and knowledge flows.

He graduated in physics at the Instituto Balseiro, Centro Atómico Bariloche, Argentina, where he completed a degree equivalent to a Bachelor's Degree in Brazil in Physics in 1969. He did his Ph D in Orsay, France in 1977. In 1986, he approved public examinations for exams and titles and took over as Full Professor at the IF-UFRGS. In addition, he has been a CNPq Research Productivity Fellow since 1979, currently at Senior level. In recent years he has been dedicating to the study of interdisciplinary problems: mainly physics applied to economics and the social sciences, studying problems such as income distribution, opinion propagation, epidemics, crime and risk propagation in complex networks. In August 2019, UFRGS awarded him the title of Professor Emeritus.

Professor and Head of the Graduate Program in Economics at the Universidade do Vale do Rio dos Sinos (Unisinos). Phd. in Applied Economics from Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul (2017), a degree in Economic Sciences (2008) and a Master's degree in International Economics from Unisinos (2012). He is currently a member of the International Economic Integration Research Group and is a member of the supervisory board of the Associação Nacional dos Centros de Pós-Graduação em Economia (ANPEC). He has experience and interest in the following areas: International Trade, Econometrics, Trade Policy and Foreign Direct Investment (IED).

Professor at the Economics Program, Unisinos University, Brazil. Ph.D. in Economics from the Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS - Brazil) with publications in international journals, A1 and A2. He is a Research Fellow at the National Council for Scientific and Technological Development (CNPq). He is currently the Coordinator of the Competitiveness and International Economics Research Group, developing research in partnership with public and private institutions in Brazil.

Professor and researcher at Universidade do Vale do Rio dos Sinos - Unisinos. PhD in Applied Economics by the Graduate Program of the Department of Rural Economics at Universidade Federal de Viçosa - UFV. Master?s in applied economics by the Graduate Program in Applied Economics at Universidade Federal do Rio Grande - FURG (2016). Bachelor?s in economics from Universidade Federal do Rio Grande - FURG (2011). Technician in accounting management area (2004). MBA specialist in Agribusiness Management (2013) from Universidade Federal do Paraná - UFPR. Professional experience in the field of Economic Regulation, Public Policy, Education Economics, Labor Economics, International Economics, Environmental and Natural Resources Economics, Rural Economics and Economic Growth and Development.

Rafael Kunst is a professor and Researcher at the Applied Computing Graduate Program of the University of Vale do Rio dos Sinos (Unisinos), Brazil, where he is also a member of the Software Innovation Laboratory – SOFTWARELAB. He is also an ad-hoc consultant for the Brazilian Ministry of Education. He holds a Ph. D. and an M.Sc. degree in Computer Science both received from the Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS). His current research interests involve next-generation mobile communications, such as 5G and 6G, military communications, Industry 4.0, smart cities, Internet of Things, and the application of Big Data Analytics and Machine Learning to optimize telecommunications. He has extensive experience as a consultant, coordinating and participating in projects with companies from Brazil and abroad. In 2020 he was a visiting professor at the IBM Watson IoT Center - Munich, Germany.

Degree in Economic Sciences from the Federal University of Santa Maria (1990), Master in Rural Economics from the Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul (1995) and a PhD in Economics from the Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul (1999). He works at the University of Vale do Rio dos Sinos, where he was Deputy Coordinator of the Graduation of the Economic Sciences course, Coordinator of the Economics PPG, Coordinator of the Accounting Sciences PPG and Director of the Economic Sciences Center. He currently teaches at the undergraduate course in Economic Sciences, at the PPG in Economics and at the PPG in Accounting Sciences and is the leader of the Research Group entitled: Markets and Competitiveness of Higher Education Institutions. He has experience in the field of Rural Economy, Microeconomics and Quantitative Methods, working mainly on the following topics: Costs, Organizational Performance Evaluation, Institutional Competitiveness Analysis and Higher Education Market based on Applied Microeconomics and Behavioral Economics.