Jatta Jännäri, Project Researcher, University of Turku

Jatta Jännäri works as a project researcher at Turku School of Economics in the Entrepreneurship’s unit. She finished her doctoral thesis on the Mediated Construction of an Ideal Gendered Manager and Employee. In the SWiPE research project, she researches the hybrids of expertise work and entrepreneurship. Jatta has recently examined the gendering of expertise work in … Continued

Antti-Jussi Tahvanainen, Research Director, ETLA

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Antti-Jussi Tahvanainen is a research director at ETLA the Research Institute of the Finnish Economy. He has many years of experience in research projects both at home and abroad and has taught business model design in the Aalto University entrepreneurship programme. He is also an entrepreneur and an executive of a charged with analysing the … Continued

Producer Day 2016

Producer Day 2016 is a national practitioner event for producers in arts and culture. The event is organised on the 14th of November at the National Museum in Helsinki. The theme of the event is the future of work from the perspective of the self-employed. Head of the SWiPE-Consortium, Professor Anne Kovalainen, will be speaking … Continued

An occupational health researcher in the platform economy wonderland

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Digital platforms, platform economy, crowdsourcing, uberisation… what??!! As an occupational health researcher, I’ve long studied working conditions, positive attitudes and wellbeing in different, but more or less traditional, occupations such as teaching, dental care, the fire service and the judiciary, as well as in organisations such as schools, day-care centres, factories and even parishes. The … Continued

Martti Kulvik, Research Manager, Etlatieto Ltd

Martti Kulvik works as a research manager at Etlatieto Ltd. In addition he has also worked in clinical positions in the neurological department of Helsinki University Central Hospital since 1994. Martti Kulvik has participated in numerous interdisciplinary research projects at home and internationally. Kulvik has a diverse knowledge of the economic and medical issues. From … Continued

Boosting SME competitiveness – Help from where?

Time 15.11.2016 at 8:30 to 13:15 Place Hotel Scandic Marski, Mannerheimintie 10, 00100, Helsinki Invitation PDF here Registration By 14.11 here   Finnish competitiveness is grounded in effective, profitable and job-creating employers. In addition to the government programme and core policy, the Työelämä 2020 (Working life 2020) project challenges employers to raise their game by … Continued

Jari Hakanen, Research Professor, FIOH

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Jari Hakanen is a Research Professor at the Finnish Institute of Occupational Health and is docent of social psychology at the University of Helsinki. He has previously worked as a research director at the University of Helsinki researcher collegium and as a researcher at STAKES (the National Institute for Health and Welfare). Jari also has … Continued

Annina Ropponen, Senior Researcher, FIOH

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Annina Ropponen is a Senior Researcher at the Finnish Institute of Occupational Health. She is also a Docent of public health at the University of Helsinki. She has previously held posts as a visiting researcher at Karolinska Institutet in Stockholm and as an Assistant Professor at the University of Kuopio. Annina Ropponen has been a … Continued

Entrepreneurship can be learned in universities

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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