| Title | Preface |
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| DOI | https://doi.org/10.4102/aosis.2025.BK527.00 |
| Landing page | https://books.aosis.co.za/index.php/ob/catalog/book/527 |
| License | https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ |
| Copyright | Natanya Meyer, Marius Venter & Niel Kruger (eds.). Licensee: AOSIS (Pty) Ltd. The moral right of the editors and authors has been asserted. |
| Publisher | AOSIS |
| Language | English (Original) |
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Marius Venter is the director of CENLED at the University of Johannesburg, South Africa. He is responsible for creating a new career path in local economic development (LED). He has successfully completed projects worth ZAR80m to date in LED and entrepreneurship. His achievements include setting up a professional body (Economic Development Council of South Africa [EDCSA]), developing 20 short learning programmes, and a Master’s and a PhD degree programme in LED. Venter is also the director of PASCAL International Observatory Africa, researching various LED-related topics.
Natanya Meyer is a professor in the Department of Business Management in the College of Business and Economics, University of Johannesburg, South Africa. She is part of the DHET-NRF SARChI Entrepreneurship Education Chair. Her research focuses on entrepreneurial and economic-related topics as well as tourism studies. She has been a member of the South Africa Global Entrepreneurship Monitor team since 2022. Meyer holds a Y2 rating from the South African National Research Foundation(NRF). She is an editor, an editorial board member, a scientific committee member, and a reviewer for several national and international journals.
Niel Kruger is an independent researcher associated with the DHET-NRF SARChI in Entrepreneurship Education in the Department of Business Management at the University of Johannesburg, South Africa. He earned his PhD in Risk Management from North-West University (NWU), South Africa. He was a former post-doctoral research fellow at the University of Johannesburg, and a recipient of the full NWU Master’s scholarship and full NWU PhD scholarship awarded by NWU in 2016 and 2018, respectively. He has contributed to academic publishing as an associate editor for the GiLE Journal of Soft Skills Development and senior assistant editor for the Journal of Contemporary Management. Kruger has also served as an advisory board member for the GiLE Journal of Soft Skills Management and worked in technology transfer at UJ INV, facilitating academic research commercialisation. He has published 11 academic articles, and supervised several Master’s students.