As a part of my course into intrapreneurship and the entrepreneurial mindset I studied, together with my research colleague M.Sc. (edu) Hanna Laalo, how business students construct entrepreneurship. Our research paid particular attention to how students construct their self-image as entrepreneurs. During the course students participated in different entrepreneurial individual and group assignments as well … Continued
Jarna Heinonen is Professor of Entrepreneurship, Head of the Entrepreneurship unit and responsible for teaching in entrepreneurship at the Turku School of Economics, University of Turku. Jarna is also a visiting professor at Kingston University in the United Kingdom. She is a versatile and respected researcher, educator and head of research projects specialising in entrepreneurship, … Continued
When: 8.11.2016 from 12:30 to 15:00 Where: Radisson Blu Royal Hotel, Runeberginkatu 2, Helsinki Registration: By 31.10.2016 here More info: Here The sharing economy and platform mediated work are rapidly becoming more common in Finland. The phenomenon is expected to have a significant impact on firms, the labour market and to the way society … Continued
Digital platforms and the jobs that emerge in the platform economy are a core area of research in the SWiPE-project. These issues are also being actively taken up in public conversation. Indeed, change in working life and digital platforms that bring together work and workers were topics in the YLE A2 “pay gap-night” on the … Continued
A digital platform can be defined to be akin to a virtual marketplace where actors, not directly dependent on the platform supplier, meet and engage with one another. The phenomenon is as old as organised interaction between people. What is new now, is the way in which digitalisation through ever-present networked devices has “turbocharged” the … Continued
Petri works as an economist at the Avance Attorneys LTD and in addition, he is a senior fellow in ETLA and in ETLA’s research projects. He has had a varied career as a researcher both in Finland and abroad, publishing widely both in Finland and internationally. He defended his doctorate in 2000 at the Vanderbilt … Continued
Changes in working life and entrepreneurship in the platform economy are a central part of the SWiPE research project. The diversity of working life in the future underlines the importance of learning in work. Workers are expected to be able to continuously learn, adapt and adopt new skills and methods. SWiPE Researchers Eveliina Saari and … Continued
The multidisciplinary SWiPE research project looks at change in the economy and working life as well as the effects of the platform economy, new technology and digitalisation on work, entrepreneurship and economic growth. In their book chapter “Innovating is not of the spirit world – depicting a female inventor’s unique path with materiality-friendly gender concepts”, … Continued
Seppo Poutanen is a Senior researcher and Docent of Sociology at the University of Turku. In addition to his significant expertise in research and teaching in Finland he has a lot of international experience. Seppo has been a visiting researcher in a number of universities abroad. He has also worked as an Academy of Finland … Continued