Dr Stephen Little has degrees in Architecture and Applied Psychology and a PhD in Design Research.He has been researching technology and organisations since leaving architectural practice in 1981 to undertake a PhD at the Department of Design Research, Royal College of Art, London. Currently he is supervising doctoral students at the Centre for Islamic Finance, University of Bolton (https://www.bolton.ac.uk).He is also Director of the Centre for Pan-African Studies at the Hume Institute for Postgraduate Studies, Lausanne (https://humelausanne ch).As Professor Extraordinaire he is collaborating with Professor Mammo Muchie (www.sarchi.org) on the development of entrepreneurship modules and a related incubator at Tshwane University of Technology, Gauteng.In March 2024 he delivered the initial presentation of a Strategic Management for Sustainability module for the MBA programne at Osiri University, a new online initiative (https://www.osiriuniversity.org).He developed extensive contacts in the Pacific Rim during ten years in Australia teaching information systems development and has co-edited books and journal issues covering the influence of the Asian economies in the twenty-first century, intelligent urban development and meta-governance. He worked on major studies on international manufacturing technology transfer and the diffusion of knowledge-based systems before returning to the U.K. in 1996. He continued his interest in Asia through the Asia Pacific Technology Network (www.aptn.website) which he chaired from 2005 to 2016.He was senior lecturer in knowledge management at the Open University Business School, UK from 1999 to 2013 and has held visiting posts at the Rotterdam School of Management and the University of Bolton where he researched the implications of cross-cultural knowledge flows in the global economy.Current interests include the contribution of major science projects to regional development, the role of place branding in the attraction of inward flows of investment and intellectual capital, regional development presented by the phenomenon of ‘hyperlocalism’.Specialties: Action research, cross-cultural research and e-collaboration; innovation and knowledge transfer; problem-based learning and distance learning;