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Senior lecturer, Institute of Strategy and
International Business, Helsinki University of Technology
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Communities of practice, institutional entrepreneurs and the effectiveness of innovation policy action
An empirical study of national technology program activities and the unfolding of innovation strategies in four emerging technological domains in Finland
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SUMMARY
This research focuses on the dynamics of systems of innovations and on the effectiveness of policy measures in advancing the functioning of such systems. My main interest is in deepening existing understanding of how institutional change follows technological change in systems of innovation. National technology programs represent a policy intervention, the intent of which is to facilitate institutional change in industrial systems, for example, by taking up emerging technological opportunities. This context has been chosen for my PhD study in order to study inertial forces and facilitating elements that underlie institutional change in industrial-technological systems. I employ a multiple embedded case study design, which focuses on four emerging
technological domains and related collaborative activities between research, industry, and government in Finland during 1994-2005.
CASES
- Functional foods – Food industry
- Modular steel construction – Steel construction industry
- Electronic publishing and printing – Paper and graphic arts industry
- Health care technologies – Health care sector
TIME:2004-2007
FUNDING
Tekes, Likesivistysrahasto, Svenska Tekniska Vetenskapsakademien i Finland and Academy of Finland (FCIBR)
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Constituencies for technology design formulation and outsourcing in big science
SUMMARY
A comparative case study of institutional logics and governance of missions and instrument building in CERN and ESA
TIME:2006-
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Emerging logics and agency in “necessary” organizational and institutional change situations – A case study of the merger process of three Universities in Helsinki area
SUMMARY
This research project focuses on the relationship between structuring of organizational and institutional change to the emergence of logics and agency around the merger process of three universities in Helsinki area. Especially we want to study; 1) how the emergence of the issue “merger of the three universities” developed from the initial idea and its articulation to formal decision to progress with the merger; 2) how agency and interest emerge around the idea and progression of the merger; and 3) which are the mechanisms and interactions that integrate agency and issue and, consequently, form a novel structure and provide the path and subsequent evolution of the new university.
TIME 2008-2010
FUNDING
Ministery of Education
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