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Development of Emerging Industries (DEI)
This project focuses on developing a better understanding of the development of emerging industries with a particular attention being paid to the micro and macro processes in the emergence of the demand and needs, the capabilities needed to address them, as well as the business ecosystems, business models, and other enabling conditions for new industries. The key research question of the project is: "What micro and macro processes influence the emergence of new industries?" From a pragmatic perspective, we also ask:"What actionable strategies and policies can practitioners and policy makers use to facilitate the emergence of new industries?" Addressing these questions of importance for the Finnish innovation policy and industry, we build on the latest research on the creation of new industries and an extensive existing research program at Helsinki University of Technology in this area.
Subtheme 1: Emergence of Technological Fields
In this subtheme, the key research question is “What micro and macro processes influence the emergence of technological fields?” The policy question we want to address here is “What are the failures in micro and macro level properties impeding emergence of novel technological fields and industries?” These questions are critical to address for better understanding how changes in logics of innovation (from technology push type to user centered innovation) and institutionalized roles of actors can be facilitated for enabling creation of new industries.
CASES
- Securities industry
- Nanotechnology field
- New/clean energy technologies and the metals and engineering industry
- Health care technologies field and the health care sector
TIME:2009-2010
FUNDING
The project is funded by Tekes the Finnish Funding Agency for Technology and Innovation and Helsinki Institute of Science and Technology (HIST). The project has started in 2009 and will last until the end of 2010.
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Constituencies for technology design formulation and outsourcing in big science - Institutionally or technologically determined?
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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Aalto University’: Sources, Forces and Challenges of Integrating Three Universities
Sub-project IV: Agency and discourse in institutional change
SUMMARY
The merger of the Helsinki University of Technology, Helsinki School of Economics and the Helsinki University of Art and Design into Aalto University is a complex process. In this research project, we view the unfolding of the university merger from several complementary perspectives and theoretical frameworks. The first phase of the cross-disciplinary research project, comprising scholars from the merging universitties, is scheduled for 2008-2010.
The sub-project focuses on the relationship between structuring of organizational and institutional change and the emergence of logics and agency around the merger process. The study focuses on the emergence of the initial merger idea and its articulation, how agency and interests emerge around the idea and progression of the merger, and which mechanisms and interactions provide the path for the evolution of the new university. Data from interviews with key decision-makers is produced in different time points, and document material pertaining to the merger process is collected. Both sets of data are analyzed with qualitative methods.
TIME 2008-2010
FUNDING
Ministery of Education
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