Ekaterina Turkina, Associate Professor in the Department of Entrepreneurship and Innovation at HEC Montréal, CIRANO Researcher and Fellow, has been appointed Holder of the Chair in Global Innovation Networks at HEC Montréal.

This Chair will look at the relational aspects of businesses, more specifically issues relating to international inter-organizational networks.

The research work by Ekaterina Turkina and her team will focus on:

• analyses of different types of inter-organizational networks and their implications in terms of performance and innovation
• the effects of global business networks on geographic territories and locations
• methodological advances in the analysis of inter-organizational networks

The Chair’s research program includes creating and updating structured databases on inter-firm links.