Nhien Nguyen is a senior researcher at Nordland Research Institute. She is also the Associate Editor of The Learning Organization journal (Emerald). She was a member of the Norwegian Research School in Innovation (NORSI), a visiting fellow of Stanford University (SCANCOR program), MIT Sloan School of Management (MBA program), and cross-registrant with Harvard Business School (MBA program). Her varied work experience includes positions as a sales and marketing specialist at Samsung Electronics and as a teaching assistant and research fellow at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Department of Industrial Economics and Technology Management. She has been involved in several research projects focusing on innovation strategies, both at the organizational level and the national/regional policy level.