Several regional technology and innovation strategy documents have been written covering every region within Finland in recent years. However, the approaches, methods and semantics used in those documents vary considerably. This variation has made it difficult to compare them with each other....

The emphasis of Finnish innovation policy has very much been on promoting actions that can be labelled as science--technology--innovation mode of innovation, which is based on the production and use of codified scientific and technical knowledge. However, recent research has emphasized also the...

Several regional technology and innovation strategy documents have been written covering every region within Finland in recent years. However, the approaches, methods and semantics used in those documents vary considerably. This variation has made it difficult to compare them with each other....

Purpose – Studies with a user approach in a public service context are still rare, making the contribution of this study worthwhile. This paper aims to present a case of facilitating innovativeness by involving stakeholder groups in the development of service production in the public sector....

This paper delineates how systemic innovations coevolve with organisations in the context of home care and describes the dynamics in shared innovation activities when information technology (IT) systems are developed for such services. Innovation literature is presented from the system...

The article discusses the case of Finnish universities and polytechnics in re-defining their roles in regional development and especially in regional innovation environment. The so-called third task of universities, together with the regional relevance of polytechnics, has been a central topic...

Scholars researching innovation are unanimous about the huge innovation potential in combining different fields of knowledge. Structural holes in innovation networks are especially fruitful in fostering new ideas and innovations. One problem in utilizing the innovation potential in structural...