Francisco J. López-Martín is Professor of Business Management at University of Granada (Spain). His expertise is related with the analysis of the innovation, and with the study of the family business. He has participated as researcher on environmental projects with public funding to analyze and implement strategic actions reinforcing the innovation and the entrepreneurship of firms, such as corporate determinants and consequences of the generation of patented environmental innovation on the energy industry and the social and technological networks in the generation of knowledge and in the innovation of andalusian firms.