Previously, Olga was Assistant Professor in the Graduate School of Business and Law at the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology. She is affiliated with the Centre for Management Science at Mines ParisTech PSL Research University, France.

Her work is related to several areas: innovation and technology management, strategic management of design, open & radical innovation and digital transformation.

She is a member of the French Digital Council (CNNUM). She holds several patents and her work was published in the leading technology and innovation management journals including Research Policy, Technological Forecasting and Social Change, Journal of Business and Industrial Marketing, and R&D Management among others.

Olga Kokshagina has led scientific coordination activities of ISPIM (2014 - 2018) where she had to manage the review process and scientific panel for ISPIM events. She co-leads an International Society for Professional Innovation Management (ISPIM) Special interest group on Methods & Skills for Industry. She has more than ten years of professional work experience in innovation management, strategy and design consultancy. Olga is co-author of The Radical Innovation Playbook published by De Gruyter.