RESEARCH
 Emergence of technological fields and new industries |
| Rationales of technology and innovation policy |
| Technology and innovation strategy |
| Institutional entrepreneurship and awareness |
| Social-network dynamics in innovation |
| Play in organizational action |
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INSTITUTIONAL EXPERTISE
| Expertise in facilitating field and industry wide technological shifts: Shaping strategies and managing transitions: identifying productive strategies, institutional change strategies, and legitimizing change. |
| Innovation policy expertise: National and transnational (Nordic and European) innovation, technology, and science program logics and governance, big science logics and governance. |
Domain specific expertise: Functional foods – Finnish food industry;
Modular steel construction – Steel construction industry in Finland;
Electronic publishing and printing – Paper and graphic arts industry in
Finland; Well-being technologies – Health care sector in Finland; European
Space Agency; Finnish National System of Innovation; CERN; The Finnish university reform. |
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| RECENT PAPERS AND PUBLICATIONS |
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Gustafsson, R. & Autio, E. Towards a Failure Trichotomy in Knowledge Exploration and Exploitation, - Paper presented at Academy of Management 2007 in Philadelphia
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Gustafsson, R. & Autio, E. The Role of Institutional Entrepreneurs and Policy Intervention for Enabling Paradigmatic Change, Academy of Management Annual Meeting, Atlanta, August 14-16, 2006
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Autio, E., Kanninen, S. & Gustafsson, R. 2008. First- and Second-Order Additionality and Learning Outcomes in Collaborative R&D Programs, Research Policy, 37(1).
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| Gustafsson, R. 2010. Awareness, Institutional Entrepreneurship and Contradictions in Emerging Technological Fields, Helsinki University of Technology, Department of Industrial Engineering and Management, Doctoral Dissertation Series 2010/1 |
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