Alex Coad is a Professor at Waseda Business School (Waseda University, Tokyo, Japan), and is interested in the areas of firm growth, firm performance, entrepreneurship, and innovation policy. Alex has published about 100 articles in international peer-reviewed journals. According to Google Scholar, Alex has over 13'000 citations and an H-index over 50. Alex is an Editor at the journals 'Research Policy' (Financial Times Top 50 list of journals for Business Schools) and 'Small Business Economics', and Associate Editor at 'Industrial and Corporate Change'.