Research Challenge of Business, Economic and Social Renewal
Center for Knowledge and Innovation Research (CKIR)’s 15 Years Celebration Workshop August 20-21, 2014 Aalto University School of Business, Helsinki, Finland
CKIR celebrated its 15 years of operation with the annual workshop on August 20-21, 2014. True to its tradition, the workshop brought together researchers and practitioners from different fields of research to share the latest insights and research results in the area of economic, business and societal renewal. The workshop addressed questions regarding the role of firms and public agencies in the societal renewal, and means to cope with the ongoing major transformations, caused by advances in technology development, globalization and demographic shifts.
The workshop was organized at Aalto University School of Business Töölö campus and was attended by 100 people. The agenda included key notes addressing the complexity issues and potential solutions, as well as panel discussions focusing on specific areas of study, namely smart cities, technological developments and new explorative research methodologies.
The talks emphasized the need to deepen our visioning capacity through better understanding of the ongoing societal transformations and their impacts to the different layers of society. We should create meanings that resonate with the values of people. The key notes further called for increased experimentation and faster move to piloting phase, and thus to accelerate the development and adaptation of new concepts, business models and technologies. With the magnitude of the challenges and changes today, we will need to join our forces and integrate the different resources, develop our orchestration capabilities and new research tools and methods, even infrastructures, and learn from the past experiments.
A detailed report of the workshop can be read here.
A gallery of pictures from the workshop is available here.
We look forward to seeing you again next year in CKIR workshop 2015!
Professor Seija Kulkki, the Founding Director of CKIR & Dr. Petra Turkama, Director, CKIR
Center for Knowledge and Innovation Research (CKIR)
Aalto University School of Business
Workshop program
CKIR-workshop-2014-program-final.pdf
Wednesday, August 20, 2014
8:30-9:00 Coffee and registration
Opening Words:
9:00-9:10 Opening Words
Dean Ingmar Björkman, Aalto University School of Business
9:10-9:20 Welcome and Introduction to the Agenda
Dr. Petra Turkama & Professor Seija Kulkki, CKIR, Aalto University School of Business
9:20-10:00 How to Unleash the Knowledge Potential of a Nation?
Professor (Emeritus) Ikujiro Nonaka from Hitotsubashi University, Tokyo, Japan
10:00-10:30 Societal Transformation through Addressing the Wicked Problems
Dr. Mikko Kosonen, President of the Finnish Innovation Fund (Sitra)
10:30-11:00 Governance Challenge of Complexity.
Professor (Emeritus) Yves L. Doz, Strategic Management and the Solvay Chaired Professor of Technological Innovation, INSEAD, France
11:00-11:30 Panel: Strategies for Organising ourselves for the Future
Facilitated discussion by Professor Kulkki with Professor Nonaka, Dr. Kosonen, Professor Doz
11:30-12:00 Coffee
12:00-12:30 How to Facilitate Industrial Renewal?
Dr. Timo Hämäläinen, Senior Research Fellow, Finnish Innovation Fund (Sitra)
12:30-13:00 Increased Prosperity Using the Gift of Complementary Problems
Dr. Bruce W. Ferguson, Head, Institute Center for Innovation and Entrepreneurship, Professor of Practice, Engineering Systems and Management, Masdar Institute, Abu Dhabi, The United Arab Emirates
13:00-14:00 Lunch
14:00-14:30 Open Innovation 2.0 and the European Innovation System
Mr. Bror Salmelin, Adviser for Innovation Systems, Directorate General for Communication, Networks, Content and Technology (DG: Connect), European Commission
14:30-15:00 The Black Swan Startup: Understanding Successful Entrepreneurship in Unsuspected Places
Dr. Sami Mahroum, Academic & Executive Director, INSEAD Innovation and Policy Initiative, Insead, Abu Dhabi, The United Arab Emirates
15:00-16:30 Panel: The Challenge of Firms and Society
Facilitated discussion by Dr. Turkama with Dr. Hämäläinen, Mr. Salmelin, Dr. Ferguson, Dr. Mahroum, Ms. Pia Erkinheimo
16:30-18:30 Cocktails and Networking
Thursday, August 21, 2014
8:30-10:00 Interactive Panel on Cities for Solving Societal Challenges
Chair: Dr. Petra Turkama, CKIR, Aalto University
Key Note: Cities for New Human-centric Socio-Economic Model? Dr. Alvaro Oliveira, CEO, Alfamicro
Cities - the Challenge and the Solution, Mr. Jarmo Eskelinen, CEO, Forum Virium Helsinki and Chair, ENoLL
Cities and the Role of Universities in Solving Societal Challenges? Dr. Tuija Hirvikoski, Vice President, Laurea University for Applied Sciences
The Role of Society in Solving the Grand Challenges of Our Time, Mr. Oras Tynkkynen, the Committee of the Future, the Parliament of Finland
The thematic panel on cities for solving societal challenges may challenge the role of cities, locally and globally, in contributing to human-centric, smart, all-inclusive and sustainable growth and job creation through solving major societal challenges of our time. The cities – locally and as part of global city networks - are places of life where societal challenges such as health, demographic change and wellbeing, food security, secure, clean, renewable and efficient energy, green housing, smart, green and integrated transport, inclusive, innovative and secure societies, clean air, water and climate action, resource efficiency, poverty, immigration, unemployment and many other societal problems may be met and solved. The cities may – by adopting the policy of focusing on solving societal challenges of our time – turn out to be sources for new social and economic dynamism that balances the shortcomings of urbanization and even ‘fills the gaps’ of financial market and corporate driven global economy. Cities may – over years to come – create the foundations towards human-centric and sustainable socio-economic model which aims at wellbeing and quality of life. However, do the cities have the role and means for this? How should we organize for this development? Who takes the lead?
10:00-11:45 Panel on Human, Economic, and Social Impacts of Technology
Chair: Professor Erkki Ormala, Aalto University School of Business
Key Note: About the New Challenges of Technology in Social and Economic Development? Mr. Pekka Ala-Pietilä Chair of Working group on ICT (the Finnish ICT Industry 2020) and the Chair of the Boards of Solidium
Comments of Mr. Bror Salmelin, Adviser for Innovation Systems, Directorate General for Communication, Networks, Content and Technology (DG: Connect), European Commission
The Corporate View on the Role of Technology in the Ongoing Socio-techno-economic Development? Mr. Glen Koskela, Fujitsu
Metals and Engineering Industry Renewal Connects Academics and Practitioners, Mr. Harri Kulmala, CEO, FIMECC, Ltd
Some Ideas About Development Around Future Internet and Platform technologies, Mr. Ilkka Lakaniemi, CKIR, Aalto University
The thematic panel discusses the human, economic and social impacts of technologies such as ICT, metals, wellbeing, energy and others that are also penetrated and embedded in human, social and institutional life.
The panel also discusses the new value creation strategies and modes of operations of industries. There are new strategies emerging from the innovative application of advanced technologies. The industry is changing in unprecedented pace, and the companies and policy makers must continuously look for the next big thing. Digitalization, industrial internet and servitization are the latest trends shaping the industry through new value creation models, customer-driven innovations and shortening of business cycles. The solutions and offering are becoming increasingly complex and networked, which has led to the industry to increasingly apply operational and management models from faster moving, knowledge intensive sectors. This includes introduction of joint technology platforms and the use of data from installed base (big data) for new value creation.
11:45-12:00 Coffee
12:00-13:30 Panel on Research Methodologies for Experimentation and Transformation in Social, Management and Organizational Studies.
Chair: Professor Seija Kulkki, Aalto University School of Business
Addressing the Wicked Problems – the Methodological Choices of Social Work Practice Research, Professor Mirja Satka and Professor Ilse Julkunen, Social Work Practice Research, Department of Social Research, University of Helsinki
Social Physics and Big Data in Innovation Research, Professor Antti Hautamäki, University of Jyväskylä
Human-centric Technologies - Designing for What it Means to be Human, Professor Timo Saari, Tampere University of Technology
Designing Systems and Services Capable of Adapting to Human Emotion and Motivation,Dr. Niklas Ravaja, Aalto University School of Business, Professor, University of Helsinki
With the research methodological panel, we aim at discussion of the state of the art in research methodologies that are ‘inclusive’, engaging and for experimentation and transformation; they may be action or participative methods, interactive methods such as the dialogical methods or design methods (even urban and service design methods) and methods for prototyping (rapid prototyping or prototyping for ‘low volume’ production’) close to real life phenomenon. We address the nature of research methodologies in social, management and organization sciences from the viewpoint of: how do the research and research methodologies contribute to innovation, change, experimentation and transformation? Thematic Panels consist of opening key notes (30) min) and short (10 min.) thematic key notes and research presentations. After individual contributions we have a panel discussion where also the participants of the workshop may join.
13:30-13:50 Concluding Remarks and Call for Action
13:50-14:30 Networking lunch