Eduardo Manuel de Almeida Leite

Higher school of Technology and Management

Penteada University Campus , Floor -1

eduardo.leite@staff.uma.pt

(+351) 291 705 180 / 5180

"I have made a ceaseless effort not to ridicule, not to bewail, not to scorn human actions, but to understand them." Baruch Spinoza, "Tractatus Politicus" (1677)

Biographical Notes

Eduardo de Almeida Leite (PhD) is Vice-President of the School of Technology and Management at the University of Madeira and an Honorary Researcher at the School of Law, University of Aberdeen (United Kingdom). His academic and research work sits at the intersection of Management, Entrepreneurship, Innovation, and Law, with particular emphasis on how entrepreneurial ecosystems evolve through institutional dynamics and regulatory frameworks. He has participated in 13 European consortia, including three Horizon Europe projects, contributing to the mobilisation of over ?20 million in competitive funding and strengthening collaboration between academia, industry, and the public sector. He publishes in Q1/Q2 peer-reviewed journals and is the author of Entrepreneurial Becoming (McGraw Hill, 2026), with a foreword by David B. Audretsch. He founded and leads OSEAN, promoting the integration of research, doctoral training, and territorial innovation, with a particular focus on entrepreneurship ecosystems in Europe?s outermost regions.

Publications

Complexities of Public Corruption and Abuse of Power: Social Impacts and Critical Analysis, Leite, E., Journal of Economic Issues, 2026

Editorial-Entrepreneurship beyond boundaries: Towards a relational entrepreneurship perspective, Leite, E., Journal of Entrepreneurial Researchers, 2026

Editorial-Understanding before celebrating: Entrepreneurship beyond imitation, certainty, and comfort, Leite, E., Journal of Entrepreneurial Researchers, 2026

Entrepreneurial Becoming: Symbolic Emergence, Narrative Identity and Strategic Inflections, Leite, E., 978-844-86514-6-6, McGraw Hill, 2026

Entrepreneurial intention and competency profiles of higher education students: A gender analysis, Sardinha, L.; Leite, E.; de Campanella, S.; Sousa, D.; Lourenço, T., 978-3-032-09074-4, Springer, 2026

Pedagogical Innovation in Entrepreneurship: Teaching Resilience Through the Lessons of Failure, Leite, E. M. de A.; Kariv, D., International Journal of Entrepreneurship and Small Business, 2026

Rethinking tourism entrepreneurship: Regeneration, inclusion and local agency, Silva, J. T. S.; Leite, E. M. d. A., SN Business & Economics, 2026

Surviving the start: Mapping the causal architecture of new venture endurance, Correia, R.; de Almeida Leite, E. M.; da Costa, R. L., Journal of Modelling in Management, 2026

The dialectics of creative destruction and uncreative construction: A biomimicry-based approach to sustainable innovation in entrepreneurship, Graça, A.; Leite, E., Journal of Entrepreneurial Researchers, 2026

Critical assets and value networks in resilient innovation ecosystems in the EU Outermost Regions, Schwabe, O.; Leite, E.; Lopez, J. D.; Addi, K.; & Almeida, N., 23rd CIB World Building Congress (WBC2025), West Lafayette, 2025

Academic Qualifications

PhD in Gestão, 2013, Universidade de Trás-os-Montes e Alto Douro

Current Duties

Director of the Degree in - diretor.dgh.1c@mail.uma.pt

Director of the Post-Graduation in - diretor.eis.pg@mail.uma.pt

Membro of the Assembly of the Escola Superior de Tecnologias e Gestão

Member of the Polytechnic Pedagogical Council

Membro do Conselho Técnico-Científico of the Escola Superior de Tecnologias e Gestão

Vice-Presidente of the Escola Superior de Tecnologias e Gestão