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He also had a 1 year study internship in George Washington Univ. (Washington, DC) and an internship in the International Centre for Studies in Creativity at Buffalo State College (Buffalo, NY). Both internships were in the field of creativity and innovation management. Mr. Dubina was certified on “Innovation and Creativity: How to Improve Performance and Foster Growth” by the American Management Association.
Professional Experience Igor has more than 15 years of experience in research and teaching creativity and innovation management, organizational culture and climate assessment, techniques of creative problem solving, and decision-making strategies. He published more than 70 papers in these fields, including 2 monographs and 5 textbooks in Russian, as well as more than 10 papers in English in international journals and monographs. He is a frequent speaker at many international conferences on creativity and innovation held in China, Egypt, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Russia, Singapore, Ukraine and the USA.
Since 1999, Mr. Dubina has been working as an Associate Professor and Associate Dean in the School of Business and Management at Altai State University (Russia). He teaches courses on:
• Creative Problem Solving in Business (including TRIZ),
• Creativity and Innovation Management,
• Statistical Methods and Software (SPSS, STATISTICA, WINSTEPS),
• Socio-Economic Measurement,
• Analytical Models in Economics and Management,
• Game Theory and Its Economic and Management Applications.
Igor is a laureate of the 2006, 2007 and 2008 National Textbook Contest and a prize-winner of 2006 and 2007 Altai State University Professor Contest. He got more than 20 grants for research and training programs from many American, European and Russian Organisations, including the US Department of State, World Bank, Soros Foundation, Ford Foundation, Central European University, Russian Fund for Humanities, Russian National Training Foundation. On demand of the Government of Altai Region, he developed a method for the measurement of organizational climate for creativity and innovation. By the moment, this method was applied in 9 Russian government and private companies. Recently, this method is also being tested in companies of Singapore and China.
EDUCATION
Ph.D. (Kandidat nauk) in Social Sciences, Omsk State University, Omsk, Russia
Diploma in Economics (MSc), Altai State Agricultural University, Barnaul, Russia
Diploma with honors in Electronic Engineering (BSc), Concentration in Computer Simulation, Altai State University, Barnaul, Russia
Research Program in Social and Organizational Learning, George Washington University, Washington, DC
POSITIONS HELD
Associate Professor of Economic Information Systems (September 1999 – present)
Economics Faculty, Altai State University
Post-doctorate Research Scholar (November 2007 – present)
Department of Theoretical Cybernetics and Applied Mathematics, Altai State University
Visiting Research Scholar (August 2004 – July 2005)
Department of Management Science, George Washington University, USA
Associate Dean on research and international cooperation (May 2001 – August 2008)
Economics Faculty, Altai State University, Russia
Senior Officer (June 1996 - August 1999)
Information Technologies Department, Altai Regional Tax Service
Lecturer (September 1995 - August 1999)
Department of Philosophy and Methodology of Science, Altai State University
Research Assistant (September 1993 – August 1995)
Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Cybernetics, Altai State University
Research Assistant (September 1991 – August 1993)
Center of Data Processing, Altai State University
TEACHING EXPERIENCE / COURSES TAUGHT
• Games Theory in Economics
• Analytical Models in Economics and Management
• Creative Problem Solving in Business
• Creativity and Innovation Management
• Computer Simulation Methods
• Decision and Risk Analysis / Palisade Decision Tools, Lumeaut
• Statistical Methods and Software in Socio-Economic Research / SPSS, STATISTICA, SAS
FELLOWSHIPS AND GRANTS
• Russian National Fund for Humanities (Russia), 2000, 2006, 2008
• Post-Doctorate Research Fellowship, Barnaul City Administration (2008)
• American Creativity Association & Singapore Management University (2008)
• Local Initiative Grant Program, US Department of State (USA), 2006
• Soros Foundation & Central European University (Hungary), 1997, 2006
• Ford Foundation (USA), 2005 - 2006
• Dimitris and Maria Delivanis Foundation (Greece), 2006
• Junior Faculty Development Program (USA), 2004 – 2005
• World Bank (USA) & National Training Foundation (Russia), 2001-2003
LANGUAGES
Russian (native); English (advanced); German, French, Ukrainian (basic)
AWARDS AND HONORS
• National Education Support Foundation Award (2008)
• Laureate of the I National Textbook Contest on communication sciences and education (2007)
• Laureate of the XIV National Textbook Contest on mathematical methods and software (2006)
• Prize-winner of the 2006 and 2007 Altai State University Professor Contest
• Academic title of Docent in Economic Information Systems and Mathematical Models (2003)
PUBLICATIONS AND CONFERENCES
More than 60 papers and 20 conferences on creativity and innovation management, mathematic and computer simulation of socioeconomic systems, and research methodology (a list is attached).
List of main publications and conference presentations
Main publications in English
Dubina, I.N. (2007) “Optimally managing creativity in organizations”, in Carayannis, E.G. and
Chanaron, J.J. (Eds.) Managing Creative and Innovative People: The Art, Science and Craft of
Fostering Creativity, Triggering Invention and Catalyzing Innovation. London, Praeger Publishers, pp. 143-169.
Dubina, I.N. (2006) “Optimising creativity management: problems and principles”, Int. Journal of
Management and Decision Making. Vol. 7, No. 6, pp. 677-691.
Dubina, I.N. (2006) “Measurement in creativity management: why and how to measure intangibles”,
International Journal of Knowledge, Culture and Change Management, Vol.6, No. 6, pp. 149-155.
Dubina, I.N. (2006) “A conception of optimally managing creativity”, Information Technologies in
Science, Education and Business. Vol. 33, No.1, pp. 322-324.
Dubina, I.N. (2005) “A study of applying the analytic hierarchy process to the measurement of creative
climate”, Information Technologies in Science, Education and Business. Vol. 32, No. 1, pp. 70-72.
Dubina, I.N. (2005) “Managing creativity: theoretical approaches to employees’ creativity development
and regulation”, Int. Journal of Management Concepts and Philosophy, Vol. 1, No. 4, pp. 334-
349.
Main publications in Russian
Monographs and textbooks
Dubina, I.N. (2009) Mathematical and Statistical Methods in Social and Economic Sciences. Moscow,
Finances & Statistics.
Dubina, I.N. (2009) Creativity Management in Innovation Economy. Moscow, Academia Publish.
House.
Dubina, I.N. (2008) Fundamentals of Game Theory and Its Economic Applications. Barnaul, Altai Univ.
Press.
Dubina, I.N. (2007) Creative Problem Solving in Management and Business. Barnaul, Altai University
Press.
Dubina, I.N. (2006) Mathematical Principles of Empirical Social and Economic Research. Barnaul,
Altai Univ. Press.
Dubina, I.N. and Oshkalo, V.V. (2005) Global Information Resources for Economists, Barnaul, Altai
Univ. Press.
Dubina, I.N. (2000) Creativity as a Phenomenon of Social Communications, Novosibirsk, Russian
Acad. of Sci. Publish. House.
Articles
Dubina, I.N. (2008) “Stimulating innovation by means of organizational climate improvement”, Human
Recourse Management Journal, No. 24, pp.75-78.
Dubina, I.N. (2007) “Principles and methods of the assessment of organizational climate for creativity
and innovation”, Journal of Innovation, No. 4, pp.31-34.
Dubina, I.N. and Umpleby, S.A. (2005) “Applying methods of total management quality to
improvement teaching and research work in a university”, in Managing Universities and
International Cooperation, Omsk, Omsk Pedagogical Univ. Press, 2005, pp. 63-71.
Dubina, I.N. (2003) “Creative decision support systems: principles, functions and applications”, in
Information Economy and Dynamics of Transition Processes. Barnaul: Altai Univ. Press, pp. 254-
263.
Dubina, I.N. (2002) “Creativity in the practice of the contemporary business”, Altai State University
Bulletin, No. 2, pp. 63-71.
Dubina, I.N. (2002) “The problem of employees’ creativity management in social and economic
systems”, in Economics and Information: Theory, Models and Technologies. Barnaul, Altai Univ.
Press, pp. 121-126.
Presentations at international conferences (in English)
• “Developing and testing a new instrument for assessing organizational climate for creativity and
innovation in Russian companies”, 2008 American Creativity Association International
Conference (Singapore, February 2008).
• “New approaches to measurements in creativity management: Towards mathematically
meaningful measurement instruments for effectively managing employee creativity”,
International Symposium on Creation and Innovation for Sustainable Development (Beijing,
China, August 2006).
• “Developing distance teaching courses: problems and conclusions”, JFDP Alumni Impact on
their Communities: Within and Outside the Walls of Academe, International Conference
(Moscow, Russia, 2006).
• “Agenda setting and improvement monitoring in a university department”, the 12th Annual
International Deming Research Seminar (New York, USA, February 2006) (with Stuart
Umpleby).
• “Applying quality improvement priority matrix for strategic decision-making in a university”,
The 16th AUDEM Annual Conference (Yalta, Ukraine, October 2005).
• “Employees’ creativity development optimization as an element of creativity management”, The
20th Annual Washington Consortium Schools of Business Research Forum (Washington,
DC, USA, 2004)
• “Employee creativity in the contemporary economy”, The 16th CEDIMES International
Workshop on Emergent Economies (Alexandria, Egypt, March 2004).
• “The trends and problems of the development of economic and management theories of
creativity”, The Problems of Science, Education and Stable Social and Economic Development
in the Beginning of the 21st Century (Chymkent, Kazakhstan, October 2003).
• “The assessment of creativity potential and its influence on work performance”, The XXI
Annual International Conference on Information Technologies (Gurzuf, Ukraine, May 2004).
• “The perspectives of creativity training in economic education”, Continuous Economic
Education Workshop (Oldenburg, Germany, May 2002).
• “The problem of optimal investment in creativity”, Russian-American Workshop on Natural and
Social Co-Evolution (Novosibirsk, Russia, September, 2002).
