Artem Kornetskyy

I am co-founder and Chair of the Board at the School of Mindful Entrepreneurship, an NGO running social and youth entrepreneurship programmes across Ukraine, and Associate Professor at Ukrainian Catholic University, where I designed and lead the Social Entrepreneurship course and the Business on the Frontlines course at UCU Business School.

I co-founded the Ukrainian Social Venture Fund and serve as a Field Editor of the Journal of Small Business and Enterprise Development (Emerald). I was a Fulbright Faculty Development Scholar at DePaul University and am currently a Fulbright Visiting Scholar at the University of Alabama at Birmingham.

• Co-founder and Chair of the Board School of Mindful Entrepreneurship, Kyiv — since 2018
• Associate Professor Ukrainian Catholic University, Lviv — since 2016
• Co-founder and Board Member Ukrainian Social Venture Fund, Kyiv — since 2020
• Field Editor Journal of Small Business and Enterprise Development, Emerald — since 2022
• Editorial Advisory Board Member Management Decision, Emerald — since 2015

• Social entrepreneurship theory
• Social entrepreneurial ecosystems
• Impact investing and venture philanthropy
• Youth and student entrepreneurship
• Small business development in transition economies

1. 2026 — Kornetskyy, A. Defining the nature of the social entrepreneurship ecosystem and its modeling. Achievements of the Economy: Prospects and Innovations, 30. doi:10.5281/zenodo.20644089
2. 2026 — Kornetskyy, A., & Zokhniuk, O. Typology and development of social entrepreneurship ecosystems: international experience and prospects for Ukraine. Efektyvna Ekonomika, 3. doi:10.32702/2307-2105.2026.3.149
3. 2025 — Kornetskyy, A. Entrepreneurial ecosystem as a multilevel system of socio-economic development. Management and Entrepreneurship: Trends of Development, 3(33), 194–201. doi:10.26661/2522-1566/2025-3/33
4. 2025 — Petrunenko, I., Chukhlib, A., Kornetskyy, A., Zlobin, D., & Vlasenko, T. Development of social entrepreneurship in Ukraine as a response to the socio-economic challenges of war. Pacific Business Review (International), 18(4), 182–197.
5. 2022 — Murphy, P. J., Kornetskyy, A., & Nixon, J. T. Delineating novel aspects of social enterprise theory. Social Enterprise Journal, 18(2), 364–382. doi:10.1108/SEJ-04-2021-0036
6. 2021 — Boychuk, Y., Kornetskyy, A., Kryzhanovska, L., Rozhdestvensky, A., & Stepanyuk, Y. Promprylad.Renovation: impact investing in emerging markets. Emerald Emerging Markets Case Studies, 11(2). doi:10.1108/EEMCS-04-2020-0114
7. 2018 — Murphy, P. J., Smothers, J., Novicevic, M. M., Humphreys, J. H., Roberts, F. B., & Kornetskyy, A. Social enterprise in antebellum America: the case of Nashoba (1824–1829). Journal of Management History, 24(1), 99–119. doi:10.1108/JMH-06-2017-0032 Emerald Literati Outstanding Paper Award, 2019

Full publication list on Google Scholar

• Social School Entrepreneurship: Your First Startup — textbook for students, parents and educators, 2020. Recommended by Ukraine’s Ministry of Education and Science.
• Social Entrepreneurship: Lecturer’s Handbook — editor and author of seven chapters, 2019.
• Regional Policy for Small Business Development: Modelling and Implementation — monograph, 2016.
• Social Entrepreneurship for NGOs — open online course, Prometheus, 2021.
• Social Entrepreneurship — open online course with Patrick J. Murphy, Prometheus, 2017.
• Social Entrepreneurship: Design Thinking and Uncertainty — open online course, VUM Online, 2017.

• 2026 — Start career guidance for young people early, Hromadske.
• 2021 — Business that hides its social side, and how to change that, Forbes Ukraine.
• 2021 — The social economy: where is the money?, VoxUkraine, with M. Yazvinska and V. Konopkin.
• 2018 — Why entrepreneurship should become social, TEDxMariupol.

• ORCID 0000-0003-1955-6167 Authoritative record of published work
• Google Scholar Citations and full publication list
• LinkedIn Current projects and talks
• kornetskiy@gmail.com For collaboration, reviewing and speaking requests