Fitxa persona

Throughout her professional life, Lola has worked on entrepreneurship both from a professional and academic point of view. On the one hand, she has had her own innovative company, has created and managed several startups associations and has worked as a strategy consultant for entrepreneurs and SMEs. Lola has mentored entrepreneurs since 2004 and still does, in different institutions.

At the academic and research level, she is a full professor at the Faculty of Economics at the University of Valencia (UV), guest lecturer at other universities and teaches in English and Spanish. She is currently researching sustainable entrepreneurship from 4 perspectives of sustainability: ecological, social, cultural and economic. She is the director of the ROCK-EU Research Group (Research on Opportunities, Capabilities, and Knowledge in Entrepreneurial Universities) and the consolidated teaching innovation group in entrepreneurship and innovation ‘ROCK-ing the brick’. Her doctoral thesis on university entrepreneurship won an award from the Social Council of the Polytechnic University of Valencia and another from Valencia City Council for the doctoral thesis with the greatest impact on the city of Valencia.

She has a background in European projects management since 2001. Since 2015 she has managed several European projects on entrepreneurship aimed at tackling the climate emergency within the European initiative EIT Climate KIC. She currently belongs to the European Forthem Alliance, participates in various European projects and leads a cooperation project to promote entrepreneurship in Ethiopia.

Lola is the academic head of UVemprén, the entrepreneurship support area at the UV. She is the responsible for the entrepreneurs mentoring service of the University of Valencia and supports all the active entrepreneurs form different areas of knowledge. She has been the Vice-Dean of Entrepreneurship and Business Relations at the Faculty of Economics.

She is the Vice President for International Relations of AEDEM, the European Academy of Management and Business Economics and the Vice President of ASEDEC+I+A, the Spanish Association for Executive Development in Science + Innovation + Art.