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Robin Gustafsson holds a researcher position at the Institute of Strategy at Aalto University School of Science and Technology. He just completed his doctoral thesis on the topic “Awareness, Institutional entrepreneurship, and Contradictions in Emerging Technological fields”.
His work focuses primarily on emergence and institutional dynamics of technological fields and rationales and effectiveness analysis of technology and innovation policy. His research aims at exploring and deepening existing understanding of the emergence of awareness and institutional entrepreneurship in novel technological fields, and the contradictions that result from emergence. As a more general contribution, he aims at advancing understanding about emergence and socio-cognitive dynamics in novel technological fields. Towards this end, he is working with an institutional sociological approach to study the interplay between the micro and macro-level emergent properties in novel technological fields is outlined. He is exploring these processes by studying innovation networks, institutional entrepreneurship, and the social shaping of emergent technological fields. Specifically, he is interested in agency and interest and the role of institutional entrepreneurs in enabling paradigmatic change in technology fields.
Robin Gustafsson has worked previously in the Finnish National Technology Agency Tekes in the Impact Analysis Unit as the coordinator of technology program evaluation activity. This work included planning and organizing technology program evaluations, developing and managing feed-back and communication process of results in evaluations, participating in technology program concept and strategy development process. He also held several international assignments and memberships in the area of program evaluation. Former to this task he worked as a senior technology adviser in Tekes in the field of energy and environment technology where his tasks ranged from evaluation of company, university and research institute RTD projects, expert-consultation on EU RTD programs and participation in national technology strategy work in the area of energy and environment technology. He also had an overall coordination responsibility of the Water services 2001- technology program and of the Nordic cooperation in the energy research field and innovation cooperation activities in sustainable development.
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