Praveen Gupta is a corporate executive and a thought leader in excellence and innovation for achieving sustained profitable growth. He has authored many books on innovation, including Business Innovation in the 21st Century and Global Innovation Science Handbook. He was the founding editor-in-chief of the International Journal of Innovation Science. Praveen also published the Startup Edge newsletter for the TIE organization in Silicon Valley. Gupta has taught Innovation classes at the University of Illinois at Chicago, the Illinois Institute of Technology in Chicago, and San Jose State University, San Jose, CA. He graduated from Illinois Institute of Technology (IIT), Roorkee, and Illinois Institute of Technology (IIT), Chicago.