Vanessa Ratten is Associate Professor of Entrepreneurship and Innovation at La Trobe University. She is Program Director of the Entrepreneurship and Innovation subjects and teaches Corporate Venturing and Managing Innovation. She has published seven sole-authored books including Sport Entrepreneurship: Developing and Sustaining an Entrepreneurial Sports Culture (Springer). She has also edited more than twenty books including Entrepreneurship and the Community: A Multidisciplinary Perspective on Creativity, Social Challenges, and Business (Springer).