Vítor Hugo Santos Ferreira received his PhD in 2010 from the University of Lisbon (ISEG) in Entrepreneurship and Innovation, focusing on the dynamics of regional innovation and catching-up. He has a Master's degree in Economics and Management of Science, Technology and Innovation from the University of Lisbon (ISEG) (2006) and developed his Master's thesis on the "Moulds Sector in Portugal Vs China: Strategies, Skills and Innovation".

He is a professor at the Polytechnic Institute of Leiria since 2002, where he teaches Advanced Strategy, Innovation Management, Entrepreneurship, Creativity and Innovation, Knowledge Management, Games Markets and Multimedia UCs.  Between 2012 and 2014 he was Coordinator of the Master of Management Control and is a member of the scientific committee of the International Business Master of IPLeiria since 2014. Over the years he has collaborated with some European business schools in Finland, the Netherlands, Hungary and France and is a visiting professor at the University of Feevale and Coimbra Business School. He has supervised more than 20 entrepreneurial projects and guided 30 Master's dissertations in the areas of Strategy, Innovation, International Business and Knowledge Management.  He was responsible for the creation of the "entrepreneurial engineering" award. He is a trainer in the area of entrepreneurship in programmes linked to Poliempreende. Since 2013 he has developed extensive work in Supporting the business sector, in the study of entrepreneurship phenomena and in the implementation of investment projects in higher education/industry (QREN, P2020, Framework Programme). He is a researcher and member of the scientific council of the Centre for the Rapid and Sustainable Development of Products (CDRsp), a research unit of IPLeiria. He was co-responsible for several important studies, such as the "comparison of the Portuguese mould industry with the Chinese one", the "Assessment of the education needs of the Leria Region", the "assessment of a hydrogen-based industry in South Africa" and the "Internal Pine Forest Region as a System of Innovation". He is the author of many published scientific papers, Chair of GBATA (Global Business and Technology Association) and of the European Conference on Knowledege Management and reviewer in many conferences and different journals. 

He has worked as a consultant on entrepreneurship and innovation projects for many business associations (Nerlei, Aciso, Airo), where he has also worked as a trainer for entrepreneurs and executives. He was a founding partner of the start-up Look an Go.

Since 2013 he has been Executive Director of D.Dinis Business School, responsible for the management and strategy of this entity. He is responsible for the scientific and teaching courses in Entrepreneurship, the Postgraduate Diploma in Innovation Management, the General Management Program (in partnership with ISCTE), the Mini-MBA and the Management course for SMEs. He is a guest columnist for "Jornal de Leiria" and "o Molde" magazine. He is a founding member of the Eurafitar Innovation Association and a founding member of the accelerator StartUp Leiria.

He has been a guest speaker at more than 20 events in the last 3 years and organizer of several national and international conferences.