Mário Franco is an Associate Professor of Entrepreneurship and small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) Administration at the Department of Management and Economics, Universidade da Beira Interior (UBI), Portugal. He received his PhD in Management from UBI in 2002. In 1997, he was a doctoral candidate and participated in the European Doctoral Programme in Entrepreneurship and Small Business Management in Barcelona (Spain) and Vaxjo (Sweden). He holds a MA in Management from the UBI and a BA in Management from the same university. His research focuses on entrepreneurship, strategic alliances, inter-organizational networks, innovation, sustainability and business creation. He has authored (or co-authored) more than 200 articles, 20 books and about 42 chapters, including publications in the Long Range Planning, Management Decision, R&D Management, Journal of Environmental Management, Journal of Management & Organization, Journal of Engineering and Technology Management, International Entrepreneurship and Management Journal, Journal of Business & Industrial Marketing, European Journal of Innovation Management, Service Business, Review of Managerial Science, Cities, Journal Cleaner Production, among other. He has also supervised sixty master dissertations, 12 doctoral thesis and has acted as a reviewer/evaluator for more than 30 international scientific journals. He is also a member of a Research Unit (CEFAGE-UBI) and currently involved in several research projects on SMEs.