Michael Keller is a senior academic associate at the School of Engineering and Architecture of Fribourg (affiliated to the University of Applied Sciences and Arts Western Switzerland), where he is responsible for cross-regional innovation cooperation and currently leads international ventures on innovation funding, value chains, smart specialisation strategies and industrial transformation. As project leader of the Interreg Alpine Space projects S3-4AlpClusters and AlpLinkBioEco he has tackled innovation from a practical and international perspective for the last four years, contributing to entrepreneurial discovery processes in fields such as circular economy, bioeconomy and digitalisation.