Introduction

Katri-Liis Lepik is an associate professor and coordinator of the Master’s Programme in Social Entrepreneurship and a mentor in the Social Entrepreneurship Incubation Programmes. She leads several EU-funded projects on social innovation and entrepreneurship development and teaching and is the author of publications on the same topics. For example, she has led the COST network “Multidisciplinary Innovation for Societal Change” with 37 countries. She is also a social entrepreneur herself. Katri-Liis’s research focuses mainly on the public sector and social innovation, as well as social entrepreneurship, cross-sector collaboration and the role of co-creation.

Main tasks

Social entrepreneurship MA program coordinator

Lecturing and supervision of students

Research and development

Management of research and development projects

Areas of research

innovation / social innovation

entrepreneurship / social entrepreneurship

quadruple- helix cooperation models

living labs

user and citizen centred solutions and services, co-creation