Ekaterina Litau

Ekaterina Yakovlevna Litau (; born April 4, 1979, Leningrad) is a scholar, professor, specialist in the theory of entrepreneurship, Doctor of Science in Economics.

Education Ekaterina Yakovlevna Litau was born on April 4, 1979, in Leningrad (Saint Petersburg).

In 2002, she graduated from the Faculty of Law of Saint Petersburg State University receiving a Master's degree in Economics in the specialty “Accounting, Analysis, and Audit” from the Higher School of Economics in Saint Petersburg. She completed her studies at the Faculty of Finance and Credit of the Saint Petersburg State University of Economics and Finance. In 2014, she defended her Ph.D. (Candidate of Science) in Economics. Thesis: “Theoretical and Methodological Principles in the Management of Developing Entrepreneurial Projects”. In 2021, she was awarded the degree of Doctor of Science in Economics (habilitation degree). Postdoctoral research and thesis: “Developing of the Entrepreneurial Humanistic Paradigm in the Innovation Economy”.

Career From 2010 to 2015, she worked as a lecturer at the Department of Business Analysis of the Saint Petersburg State University of Economics then from 2014 to 2019, she was Associate Professor at the Department of International Finance and Accounting at the Saint Petersburg University of Management Technologies and Economics, with from 2016 to 2023 a joint appointment as Associate Professor at the Faculty of Technological Management and Innovations at ITMO University. Since 2023, she has been Professor of the Department of Socio-Economic Systems Management at the Saint Petersburg University of Management Technologies and Economics.

Scientific activity Main research areas Litau's research interests include: Theory of entrepreneurship. Modern models for managing developing entrepreneurial projects. Cognitive aspects of the formation of entrepreneurial structures. Aesthetic and ethical factors in the development of successful entrepreneurial projects. Entrepreneurial aesthetics. Entrepreneurial intelligence. Litau has been an invited speaker at international conferences:

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