| Biography |
Ekaterina Turkina is associate professor at HEC Montreal and a research chair in Global Innovation Networks. Ekaterina is also an associate editor of Journal of Small Business and Entrepreneurship, as well as a member of International Advisory Board of International Journal of Productivity Management and Assessment Technologies. Her main research areas are social network analysis, innovation and inter-firm networks, industrial clusters and innovation ecosystems, international business and international entrepreneurship. She has published in top journals such as Journal of Business Venturing, Economic Geography Journal, Journal of Common Market Studies, Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications, International Journal of Information Management and others. She has written four books and was a recipient of several awards, including the Highly Commended Paper Award from the Journal of Enterprising Communities, Best Paper from the European Community Studies Association, and others. She was also a finalist for Alan Rugman Award that is given to most talented scientists in international business who are under 40 years old.
By her second education, Ekaterina is an artist. She specializes in oil and acrylic, but also paints in watercolor, mixed media and does digital art. She teaches in several Montreal art studios and participates in different local and international exhibitions.
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