Tatiana Iakovleva

• PhD
• Pofessor at University of Stavanger

Creativity is an essential factor determining whether small and medium-sized enterprises survive during times of crisis. The current study aims to examine determinants of creativity using a serial mediational model, developed and tested on 246 workers employed in Norwegian small and medium-sized enterprises, applying structural equation modelling....

This article delves into the critical role of responsible innovation within social enterprises, framing it as a cornerstone for sustainable and equitable progress. It scrutinizes how blending business acumen with a commitment to social good can drive transformative changes, despite the inherent challenges posed by aligning ethical imperatives with...

Innovation studies have shown a growing interest in collaborative approaches, particularly user co-creation within innovation spaces. This qualitative study delves into the intricate dynamics of user involvement in fostering user-centric innovation within living labs. Through interviews with 22 informants across 14 countries from 2021 to 2022, this...

This qualitative study among 591 business students from four European countries investigated crosscountry differences in the kind of barriers people perceive to business start-up. In line with institutional theory, the most important perceived barriers in all countries related to regulative structures (lack of money) and cognitive conditions (lack...

Background Care coordination is crucial to ensure the health of individuals with serious mental illness. The aim of this study was to describe and analyze an inclusive innovation process for coordinating municipal health and care services for individuals with serious mental illness. Methods We conducted café dialogues with professionals and servic...

This study examines the influence of a university’s environment on the entrepreneurial intentions and activities of its faculty and students. Focusing on a medium-sized, relatively young university in Norway, the research investigates how university context (UC), defined through Scott’s three-dimensional framework (regulative, normative, and cognit...

Background Care coordination is crucial to ensure and improve the health of individuals with mental illness. This study aimed to describe and analyze an inclusive innovation process that could contribute to the responsible coordination of municipal health and care services. Method Café dialogues were performed to explore the perspectives of profes...

The potential contribution which users can make to innovation is well-documented and there is growing recognition of the important role user innovations play at the front end of innovation. Their contribution is not only in generating new insights and ideas at this early stage but also in enabling smoother and wider diffusion since user-led innovat...

Although digital innovation is increasingly important for all types of firms, studies of the drivers of digital innovation rarely cover all sectors. Furthermore, organisational and individual factors are often overlooked. To address these gaps, we use data from a purpose-built cross-industry survey of 1,201 firms in Norway to examine how various ty...

Digital innovations integrated with Responsible innovation (RI) offer great potential to address complex societal challenges in the healthcare and welfare sector but depend on how well firms can manage the innovation process to ensure socially desirable solutions. However, there is a lack of empirical studies examining whether RI principles can be...

How can entrepreneurs protect their wellbeing during a crisis? Does engaging agility (namely, opportunity agility and planning agility) in response to adversity help entrepreneurs safeguard their wellbeing? Activated by adversity, agility may function as a specific resilience mechanism enabling positive adaption to crisis. We studied 3,162 entrepre...

The increasing adaptation of digitalisation has engendered numerous venture ideas and entrepreneurial opportunities. Many of these ideas bear the potential to address grand societal challenges. However, perceived opportunities can be elusive, especially in the context of complex problems. Opportunity confidence (OC) can be essential to venture crea...

Responsible innovation is an important consideration for digital health innovation. This study explores the responsible innovation processes of digital health innovators, and the reinforcement of responsible innovation practices. Using semi-structured qualitative interviews followed by a thematic analysis and narrative enquiry, we understand the li...

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In this chapter, we debate the current view on university-regional engagements and suggest a renewed theoretical framework based on four main elements-macro, meso, micro dimensions, as well as a meta-dimension of temporality that cuts across all levels. The macro environment is typically defined as pertaining to public policies, culture, laws, and...

This chapter introduces the main logic of this volume, which starts from the grassroots level of universities' "everyday" engagements, looking at the manifold ways in which university knowledge agents build connections with multiple regional partners across the public and private sectors, and civic society more generally. Roles, functions and norma...

There is an ongoing debate in the literature about a “third mission” for universities. Examples of successful academic spin-offs have led to a widespread policy of encouraging collaboration between the academic and commercial worlds. However, the commercialization of research based innovations often suggests a conflict of interest to academics....

The study of universities’ role in regional engagement has traditionally been focusing on exceptional cases. This book presents a reconceptualision which embraces its underlying complexity, and proposes a roadmap for a renewed research agenda. Starting from the grassroots level of universities’ "everyday" engagements, the book delves into the manif...

Purpose Individuals with serious mental illness (SMI) might require coordinated health services to meet their healthcare needs. The overall aim of this study was to describe the perspectives of professionals (registered nurses, medical doctors, social educators, and social workers) on care coordination and measures to ensure proper and coordinated...

An increased knowledge of innovation depends on high-quality research. However, what aspects of innovation impact positive outcomes for different actors? New insights call for the development of research methodology to be used to explore and investigate the phenomenon of innovation, i.e., processes and outcomes. In this paper, our aims are to a) de...

Employees’ work-related well-being has become one of the most significant interests of researchers and organizations due to the COVID-19 pandemic. This study examines how job characteristics such as mental load and team support, and technology-related factors such as perceived ease of use, perceived usefulness, and technology acceptance, impact emp...

In this SI we invite theoretical and especially empirical contributions that focus on themes including: - The usefulness of the responsible innovation concept - How firms organize their entrepreneurial and innovation process to ensure responsible outcomes - Responsible commercialization/ implementation of innovation - How to incorporate responsibi...

Background: Food insecurity is a global public health challenge, affecting predominately the most vulnerable people in society, including older adults. For this population, eHealth interventions represent an opportunity for promoting healthy lifestyle habits, thus mitigating the consequences of food insecurity. However, before their widespread diss...

The paper presents a novel theoretical framework to analyse the emergence and growth of industrial clusters. The framework focuses on the role of change agency for the modification of assets that initiate cluster development, which may also impact regional industrial restructuring. The authors distinguish between agency and assets at firm level and...

Small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs including the selfemployed) account for 90% of businesses globally and provide 70% of employment worldwide. These businesses, typically entrepreneur led, are threatened by the Covid-19 pandemic, meaning that millions of jobs are at risk. This report presents insights from a global study conducted during the...

Innovation involves creating value from ideas, but this raises the question of for whom is the value created [...]

Despite the recognition of the importance of stakeholder inclusion into decisions about new solutions offered to society, responsible innovation (RI) has stalled at the point of articulating a process of governance with a strongly normative loading, without clear practical guidelines toward implementation practices. The principles of RI direct us t...

BACKGROUND Food insecurity is a global public health problem. It has been anticipated that the economic recession triggered by the COVID-19 pandemic will promote an unparalleled crisis of food insecurity, affecting mainly the most vulnerable people in society, such as the elderly population. For this population, health-related behavior change is a...

Background Food insecurity is a global public health challenge, affecting predominately the most vulnerable people in society, including older adults. For this population, eHealth interventions represent an opportunity for promoting healthy lifestyle habits, thus mitigating the consequences of food insecurity. However, before their widespread disse...

Despite the recognition of the importance of stakeholder inclusion into decisions about new solutions offered to society, responsible innovation (RI) has stalled at the point of articulating a process of governance with a strongly normative loading, without clear practical guidelines toward implementation practices. The principles of RI direct us t...

Present paper describes the process of the development of responsible innovations on the firm level on the example of a case from a in healthcare sector in Norway. The rapid global diffusion of information and communication technologies has greatly improved access to knowledge. At the same time, communication is cheap, information is a commodity, a...

Open innovation has received increasingly attention in scientific research (Chesbrough 2002; van de Vrande et al. 2009). It showed to be a fruitful strategy to employ in highly dynamic and changing environment (Chesbrough 2003a, b). Since its emergence, evidence to support open innovation model was taken mainly from the so-called ‘high technology’...

The participation of multiple stakeholders in the innovation process is one of the assumptions of Responsible Innovation (RI). This partnership aims to broaden visions, in order to generate debate and engagement. The present study’s aim, based on a meta-synthesis, is to evaluate how stakeholder participation in RI takes place. Thus, qualitative cas...

The search for responsible innovation establishes the management of (external) stakeholders' interests as a way to minimize uncertainty and maintain or develop a competitive advantage. For inclusion to be leverage, dynamic capabilities are required. This paper analyzed how dynamic capabilities leverage the inclusion of stakeholders in the innovatio...

Iakovleva, T. (2019) "Toward an inclusive, entrepreneurial and economically sustainable future for developing and Central Eastern European Countries", Forum Scientiae Oeconomia, Vol 7(1), 5-8.

As more people strive to live longer, healthier and more active lifestyles, healthcare concerns increase and so does the costs. Research reveals that healthcare costs and spending often rise at rates exceeding inflation, and they are expected to increase in the future. Keehan et al. (2017) estimates that aggregate health care spending in the United...

Responsible innovation (RI) has received increased attention from policymakers and academics as a solution to grand challenges and is viewed as the main driver for innovation. The United Nations has suggested 17 Sustainable Development Goals and responsible innovation can be seen as a tool that allows the movement of society towards reducing inequa...

Based on an explorative case study of a privately owned Norwegian firm within medical industry, this chapter addresses the question of how do business organizations pursue responsible innovation in business development and create positive social impact. Through analysis of purpose, process and outcomes of innovation from responsibility point of vie...

While innovation should be about socioeconomic transformation of society, concerns have been raised about its negative externalities including growing disparities within and between regions. Arguably, Responsible Research and Innovation (RRI) offers a potential solution to address these concerns. However, in theory, its conceptualization and o...

This paper contributes to the sustainability debate by analyzing the inclusion dimension in the responsible research and innovation (RRI) process. RRI is claimed to be an important tool for addressing global challenges and achieving sustainable development goals. While stakeholder involvement is considered to be imperative for the RRI process, ther...

Purpose This paper focuses on the motivation of females to start businesses in developed and emerging economies. Although the issues related to the motivation of entrepreneurs have been widely studied, there are a few studies focusing on the differences in women’s entrepreneurial motivation in countries with different levels of market economy deve...

Open innovation has received increasingly attention in scientific research (Chesbrough, 2002; Vrande et al., 2009). It showed to be a fruitful strategy to employ in highly dynamic and changing environment (Chesbrough, 2003). Since its emergence, evidence to support open innovation model was taken mainly from the so-called 'high technology' industri...

Purpose How university context (UC) enhances students’ entrepreneurial intentions and opportunity recognition is an emerging topic. It is known that students learn, not only from educational programmes, but also from the context in which they are embedded. The purpose of this paper is to investigate the effect of such context on student’s entrepre...

Innovasjon Norge argumenterer i sin strategiplan «Drømmeløftet» (2015) for et sterkere søkelys på spin-off-etableringer, det vil si de etablerte bedriftenes parallell til entreprenørskap. I noen tilfeller ligger de etablerte bedriftenes innovative ideer så langt utenfor bedriftens virkeområde at ledelsen legger dem i en skuff. Innovasjon Norge argu...

The present paper focuses on motivation of female entrepreneurs to start their business. Although motivation of entrepreneurs has been widely studied (Hisrich et al., Journal of Entrepreneurship and Small Business, 3(2), 207–221, 2006; Sarri and Trihopoulou, Women in Management Review, 20(1), 24–36, 2005), studies are often routed in male-dominated...

This study analyzes the role of triple-helix collaboration in two regions—Øresund, the Danish-Swedish cross-border region, and the Moscow region. We focus on the role of the university in stimulating clean technology (cleantech) entrepreneurship. Implementation of cleantech usually assumes an improvement of environmental performance at a lower cost...

The idea of establishing a university in Stavanger was introduced in 1965. Yet in spite of strong internal support, it took a long struggle – academically, politically, and financially – to realize the university’s launch in 2005. Local economic pressure steered the focus towards the energy industry; and while the Stavanger economy is strong, an un...

Despite previous research identifying many of the antecedents associated with entrepreneurial behavior, little systematic research examines the role that personal influences beyond socio-cultural factors influence entrepreneurial behavior. In specific, we need a better, richer understanding of how personal influences are related to a nascent entrep...

paper presented on Babson conference 2006

paper presented in 2005 on teh Babson Conference

This research presents an examination of familial influence on strategic entrepreneurial behaviors within a transitional economic context. Utilizing a large sample of women-led family businesses, the study investigates the relationships between risk-taking propensity, entrepreneurial intensity, and opportunity recognition of the entrepreneur and th...

This qualitative study among 591 business students from four European countries investigated cross-country differences in the kind of barriers people perceive to business start-up. In line with institutional theory, the most important perceived barriers in all countries related to regulative structures (lack of money) and cognitive conditions (lack...

Whether or not entrepreneurs are born or made is a highly debated topic. Although positive effects of entrepreneurial education are often hypothesised, recent empirical studies provide quite contradicting results (Souitaris et al., 2007). While entrepreneurial education becomes more and more common, in some educational institutions it proves to for...

This qualitative study among 591 business students from four European countries investigated crosscountry differences in the kind of barriers people perceive to business start-up. In line with institutional theory, the most important perceived barriers in all countries related to regulative structures (lack of money) and cognitive conditions (lack...

In the present paper, we apply the theory of planned behaviour and personal initiative taking literature to explore the entrepreneurial intentions of 266 female and 161 male respondents in Russia and Ukraine. Our findings show that the intensity of entrepreneurial intentions reported by Ukrainian students is higher than those reported by their Russ...

Purpose – This paper studies female entrepreneurship in two post-Soviet countries – Russia and Ukraine. Employing institutional theory, the research aims to investigate the entrepreneurial environment, particularly government support programmes and the availability of financial resources, with a focus on women entrepreneurs. Design/methodology/app...

The scope of entrepreneurship programs offered by academia has expanded significantly in many areas around Europe, Asia, North America, Australia, and New Zealand (Gartner and Vesper 1994). With reference to the theory of planned behavior and the literature on entrepreneurship education, research has confirmed that students taking entrepreneurship...

Development of regional innovation system (RIS) and its role in regional development is a debated research topic. Most of the theoretical and empirical works are traditionally focused on RIS situated within a national context and applies institutional theory. Recently the application of RIS concept was debated in relation to cross-border settings....

The paper presents software for simulation and optimization elaborated by a Norwegian firm. This tool is applied by an international corporation which consists of ship designers, suppliers of equipment, and R&D suppliers during their collaborating projects with shipowners. This tool allows a better coordination between participants of the design pr...

Iakovleva, T., Gundry, L. and Kickul, J. (2012) "Marina Kretova and Deonis: Entrepreneurial Growth in the Russian Context", In D. Karif eds. Female entrepreneurship: The new venture creation, Routledge NY., pp. 133-138.

This study investigates the product development process of two small firms in the Norwegian software industry. A firm's ability to mobilize its capabilities and align them dynamically with the changing environment is of vital importance as the firm constantly innovates to survive and create its own competitive advantage. While literature has addres...

This study focuses on sustainable business development in protected areas in northern Norway and northwest Russia. We used an institutional profile model with three dimensions—regulatory, cognitive, and normative—to study the countries’ institutional profiles. Qualitative interviews were conducted with tourism operators, non-government organization...

In the present paper main streams of research in the field of entrepreneurship are identified and discussed. The purpose is to find out what theoretical perspectives could be used to build a framework for explaining performance in small and medium enterprises. Strengths and weaknesses of population ecology, behavioural, resource-based and strategic...

The growth of the number of women-led enterprises has contributed to the global economy. However, the growth has outpaced the research and understanding of which factors influence the performance and development of individual firms. Our results reveal that social capital influences entrepreneurial perceptions of legitimacy competence and financial...

How are innovations taken to market? Both theoretically and empirically, the process of commercialization has received scant attention. This study investigates the early commercialization process of three innovative firms in the Norwegian petroleum industry. The authors argue that the role of strategic choice is important for the processes these fi...

Purpose – This study proposes to use the Theory of Planned Behaviour to predict entrepreneurial intentions among students in five developing and nine developed countries. The purpose is to investigate whether entrepreneurial intention and its antecedents differ between developing and developed countries, and to test the theory in the two groups of...

Despite the fact that entrepreneurship scholars have developed numerous typologies to describe alternative perspectives of entrepreneurship, there is still a lack of consensus regarding how to characterize entrepreneurship (Lumpkin and Dess 1996). This lack of consensus has impeded progress towards building and testing broader theories of entrepren...

This paper proposes a framework for studying the roles of entrepreneurial orientation, financial and social capital acquisition and opportunity recognition and their influence on performance expectations on a large sample of women-led family and non-family owned businesses in Russia. Based on our findings, it is possible to conclude that the abilit...

The present research investigates whether the Theory of Planned Behaviour (TPB) (Ajzen, 1991) and the model of the entrepreneurial event (Shapero and Sokol, 1982) can be integrated into one model of entrepreneurial intentions, and clarifies the differences between different types of entrepreneurial intentions. The model is tested using data from 32...