The Impact of Digitalization on US Business Competitiveness

Mirko Presser is an Associate Professor and Deputy Director of the Centre for company Development at Aarhus University, where he does research and lectures on digital technologies, technology company development, innovation, and sustainability. He has over 15 years of expertise in research and innovation, having worked in both industry and academia on large-scale international initiatives involving the Internet of Things (IoT), data analytics, and 5G. He is the vice president of the IoT Forum and one of Europe's most prominent IoT experts. Mats Magnusson is a Professor of Product Innovation Engineering at KTH Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm and a Permanent Visiting Professor at LUISS School of Business and Management in Rome. He has previously been a Visiting Professor at Aalborg University and the University of Bologna, as well as a visiting researcher at Ritsumeikan University.

He also serves as President of the Continuous Innovation Network and senior advisor to the journal Creativity and Innovation Management.

Mats holds a PhD in Innovation Engineering and Management, an MSc in Industrial Engineering and Management from Chalmers University of Technology, and a BA in Japanese from the University of Gothenburg. His research, teaching, and consulting activities focus on the strategic and organizational aspects of innovation, and he has published extensively on these topics in journals such as Organization Studies, Research Policy, Journal of Product Innovation Management, MIT Sloan Management Review, and Long Range Planning. Saku J. Mäkinen is Vice Dean of Research and Professor of Industrial Management at Tampere University of Technology (TUT), Finland. He has previously worked at CERN, Geneva (2014-2016), Columbia University, New York (2011-12), the National University of Singapore (2000-2002), and the Australian Graduate School of Management, University of New South Wales, Sydney (1996). Mäkinen works at the interface of technology and innovation management (TIM) and strategic management, often in close partnership with industry. His research has been published in leading international journals such as Technological Forecasting and Social Change, Journal of Product Innovation Management, Technovation, IEEE Transactions on Engineering Management, Journal of Cleaner Production, Resources, Conservation and Recycling, and Advances in Strategic Management. He has held various editorial positions, including editor-in-chief of the CERN IdeaSquare Journal of Experimental Innovation since 2015, Department Editor (Emerging Technologies) of the IEEE Transactions on Engineering Management since 2018,

Associate Editor of the IJITM (International Journal of Innovation and Technology Management) since 2011

and Member of the editorial board of Technological Forecasting & Social Change. Frank McGroarty, Professor of Computational Finance and Investment Analytics and Director of the Centre for Digital Finance at the University of Southampton in the United Kingdom, conducts research at the intersection of business and computer science, with a focus on real-world commercial and policy issues. Frank worked as a fund manager in London for 13 years before starting at the University of Southampton. David Paper is a professor in the Management Information Systems Department of Utah State University's Jon M. Huntsman School. He has several refereed publications in journals such as Organizational Research Methods, Communica

tions of the ACM, Information & Management, Decision Support Systems, Journal of Information Technology Cases and Applications, Communications of the AIS, Long Range Planning, Creativity and Innovation, Accounting Management and Information Technologies, Journal of Managerial Issues, Business Process Management Journal, and Journal of Computer Information Systems. He formerly worked at Texas Instruments, DLS Inc., and the Phoenix Small Business Administration. He has provided consultancy services for IBM, AT&T, Octel Communications Corporation, the Utah Department of Transportation, and the Space Dynamics Laboratory. His academic and research interests include data science, process management, database management, e-commerce, business process reengineering, and organizational change.

Ulla A. Saari is a Postdoctoral Researcher at the Center for Innovation and Technology Research (CITER)

the Laboratory of Industrial and Information Management at Tampere University of Technology (TUT) in Finland. She has a DrTech degree in Industrial Engineering and Management from TUT and an MA in Languages and Social Sciences from the University of Helsinki. Her current research interests include sustainability, environmental stewardship, stakeholder management, entrepreneurship, and business ecosystems. She has 20 years of experience in the high-tech business, holding several senior manager positions in international organizations. Johan Simonsson is Director of Service Offer at Husqvarna Construction Products. He earned a Master of Science in Electronic Business Systems and Technologies from Golden Gate University in San Francisco and is currently pursuing an Industrial PhD in Product Innovation Engineering at KTH Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm, with a focus on digital business model innovation. Patrik Ström is an associate professor of economic geography at the University of Gothenburg's Centre for International Business Studies and Department of Business Administration. He earned a PhD in Business Administration from Roskilde University and Econ. Doctor of Economic Geography from the University of Gothenburg. His research has been on the globalization and competitiveness of the knowledge-intensive service industries in Europe and Asia. Ström is the President of the European Association for Research on Services (RESER). He was also a member of the EU Commission's High Level Group for Business Services.