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Matti Pihlajamaa
@mattipihlaj.bsky.social
Senior Scientist at VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland.
#Innovation, #Management, #Policy, and #Sustainability. 🇫🇮 🇬🇧
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Research Team Leader, Quantitative Science and Technology Studies
Are you interested in revealing future phenomena by utilising advanced data-analysis methods to create novel tools and information for strategic decision-making with superb colleagues who are top expe...
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September 29, 2025 at 4:53 AM
📌 Miten varmistua, etteivät suomalaiset innovaatiot jää vain kokeiluiksi? Kirjoitin @vtt.fi-kollega Ville Valovirran kanssa aiheesta Talouselämään.
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Suomen innovaatiot jäävät kuolemanlaaksoon – Keinoja auttamiseen olisi
Ilman toimivia markkinoita innovaatiot jäävät kokeiluiksi, mielipidekirjoittajat kirjoittavat.
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September 1, 2025 at 6:05 AM
🎉 Suurenmoinen @ecowelfare.fi-konsortiomme vietti Sastamalassa projektin päättäjäisiä.

Käynnistimme monitieteisen yhteistyön 2019 tavoitteena ymmärtää, miten hyvinvointivaltiot, jotka ovat menestystarinoita taloudellisilla ja sosiaalisilla mittareilla, voisivat toimia planeetan kantokyvyn rajoissa🌍
August 28, 2025 at 12:44 PM
Insightful reflection on how the increasing NATO spending may conflict with innovation policy objectives.

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The new NATO spending target will hamper Europe’s innovation policy
NATO's new 5 percent defence spending pledge is unlikely to help create a more autonomous, competitive and sustainable Europe.
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July 1, 2025 at 5:31 AM
💡 Can innovation policy drive the systemic change needed to solve the packaging problem?

In our new book chapter, we explore this through Finland’s food packaging sector.

@vtt.fi #innovationpolicy #sustainability #packaging #innovation #plastics
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Transformative Innovation Policies for Sustainable Food Packaging: Challenges and Opportunities
In recent years, food packaging in Finland has been targeted by various EU-level and national policy measures and regulations aimed at driving the sector towards more sustainable practices, products, ...
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May 27, 2025 at 9:54 AM
The Francesca Gina case at Harvard resulted in the revocation of her tenure and the end of her employment.
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In extremely rare move, Harvard revokes tenure and cuts ties with star business professor
An internal investigation had found that Harvard Business School professor Francesca Gino’s research on why people lie and cheat was based on falsified data.
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May 26, 2025 at 10:05 AM
I, too, praised this study when the preprint came out. Now it has been withdrawn following an internal review by MIT, and it appears there may be a strong case of research fraud.

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May 23, 2025 at 5:16 AM
🌍 How are nations using innovation policy to tackle sustainability challenges?

Despite growing attention, we still lack a clear picture of the policy mixes countries are using. A new study helps fill that gap 👇

#innovation #policy #stipolicy #sustaianbility
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Variations in innovation strategies for sustainable development: Sustainable innovation policy instrument mixes of ten small OECD countries across five sectors
Innovation plays an inevitable role in transforming our current modes of production and consumption towards sustainable development. Yet it is unclear…
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May 12, 2025 at 9:27 AM
🌍⚡Siirtymä vetytalouteen on monen agendalla, mutta miten huolehtia, että se tapahtuu oikeudenmukaisesti?

📺Monilahjakas @vtt.fi-tiimikaveri Essi Laitinen Laitinen oli juuri Huomenta Suomessa keskustelemassa vedyn hyväksyttävyydestä sekä uudesta biisistään Sielujen Soturi.
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#energia #kestävyys
May 9, 2025 at 5:11 AM
♀️♂️ 𝐈𝐧𝐯𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐨𝐫𝐬 𝐫𝐞𝐥𝐲 𝐦𝐨𝐫𝐞 𝐨𝐧 𝐫𝐞𝐬𝐞𝐚𝐫𝐜𝐡 𝐜𝐨𝐧𝐝𝐮𝐜𝐭𝐞𝐝 𝐛𝐲 𝐦𝐞𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐧 𝐛𝐲 𝐰𝐨𝐦𝐞𝐧.

📄 A new study in Administrative Science Quarterly by Michaël Bikard, Isabel Fernandez-Mateo & Ronak Mogra was widely shared when published – but I just had the chance to read it.
doi.org/10.1177/0001...
#gender #science #innovation
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May 6, 2025 at 8:14 AM
🌱 Kunnilla on keskeinen rooli kestävyysmurroksessa.
Silti kestävyyskysymykset jäivät muiden teemojen jalkoihin kunta- ja aluevaaleissa.
Kirjoitimme aiheesta Kuntalehteen – tässä pääkohdat. 📰👇
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#kestäväkehitys #kestävyys #kunnat
Kunnat kestävyysmurroksen ratkaisijoina | Kuntalehti
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May 5, 2025 at 5:42 AM
🚀 The Lean Startup approach took centre stage at the DRUID conference a few years ago: is it a breakthrough in entrepreneurship, or just old wine in a new bottle?
Now, a fresh publication summarizing the core ideas:
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
#leanstartup #entrepreneurship #innovation
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April 25, 2025 at 5:55 AM
🚀 New @vtt.fi article on corporate foresight out in Technological Forecasting & Social Change!

We explore how companies can organize foresight more effectively—and why many efforts struggle to gain traction.

👇🧵 #foresight #strategy #innovation #management

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Four archetypes of organizing corporate foresight at the intermediate maturity stage: A multiple case study
Systematizing corporate foresight and integrating it into decision-making is critical to harness its value. However, many companies face challenges du…
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April 3, 2025 at 9:39 AM
There are worse ways to start the day than receiving an acceptance letter for a paper that has been going through revision after revision for two years.
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March 25, 2025 at 6:07 AM
Reposted by Matti Pihlajamaa
Form follows function applies to #foresight too

How organizations structure their foresight activities determines how effectively they anticipate change and drive innovation.

Check out the blog from my @vtt.fi colleagues @mattipihlaj.bsky.social and Pauli Komonen
vtt.fi VTT @vtt.fi · Mar 17
Successful companies like KONE, ABB and Metsä Group often use one of these models to organise their foresight activities 🧭🔮

VTT's @mattipihlaj.bsky.social and Pauli Komonen introduce the four approaches to organising foresight 👇
www.vttresearch.com/en/news-and-...
March 17, 2025 at 7:53 PM
Reposted by Matti Pihlajamaa
Successful companies like KONE, ABB and Metsä Group often use one of these models to organise their foresight activities 🧭🔮

VTT's @mattipihlaj.bsky.social and Pauli Komonen introduce the four approaches to organising foresight 👇
www.vttresearch.com/en/news-and-...
March 17, 2025 at 2:10 PM
🔮 How should companies organize foresight? Many recognize its potential but struggle to structure it effectively. Without a clear approach, foresight risks having limited impact.

(Check out our new blog post with @vtt.fi colleague Pauli Komonen)
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#foresight
Future-proofing your business: Which foresight model fits your company? | VTT
Does your organization struggle to find the right way to organize foresight? Or are you in the early stages of initiating foresight activities, seeing the potential but not sure how to start? As a rel...
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March 17, 2025 at 7:30 AM
Reposted by Matti Pihlajamaa
Mikä tekee innovaatioista vastuullisia? Millainen on suomalaisen TKI-osaamisen taso vuonna 2025? Kuinka TKI tukee kestävyysmurrosta – vai tukeeko? Kristallipallossa keskustelemassa ovat ORSI-hankkeen Hanna Entsalo, @mattipihlaj.bsky.social ja Mika Nieminen!

#podcast #kristallipallo #TKI #innovaatio
Kristallipallo K5: Vastuullinen innovaatio
Mikä tekee innovaatioista vastuullisia? Millainen on suomalainen TKI-osaamisen taso vuonna 2025? Kuinka TKI tukee kestävyysmurrosta – vai tukeeko? Keskustelemassa ovat ORSI-hankkeen Hanna Entsalo, Mat
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March 14, 2025 at 6:40 AM
Miten tki-politiikka tukee kestävyysmurrosta – vai tukeeko?

ORSI-konsortiomme kuusivuotinen matka alkaa tulla päätökseen ja päätimme toteuttaa vielä yhden tuotantokauden Kristallipallo-podcastia.

🔗https://www.ecowelfare.fi/2025/03/14/kristallipallo-k5-vastuullinen-innovaatio/

@ecowelfare.fi
March 14, 2025 at 7:12 AM
🌍 Yesterday, we had the second meeting of the “Strategic Intelligence for Critical and Emerging Technologies for Transformative Change” project by the @oecd-ocde.bsky.social Science and Technology Policy Division.. I’m pleased to be part of the steering group.
March 6, 2025 at 9:30 AM
💡Kuulimme kansallisista TKI-toiminnan strategisista valinnoista. Luonnos sisältää kolme poikkileikkaavaa teemaa – riskinottokyky ja investoinnit, data ja resilienssi – sekä kolme temaattista painopistettä: murrosteknologiat ja puolustus, terveys ja hyvinvointi sekä ympäristö ja arktinen ulottuvuus.
March 2, 2025 at 1:19 PM
The US research system under siege
www.bmj.com/content/388/...
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February 19, 2025 at 1:54 PM
✅Tässä jutussa esitellään hyvä esimerkki siitä, miten muita maita tiukempi sääntely voi luoda edelläkävijämarkkinan ja antaa paikallisille yrityksille etumatkaa.
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February 17, 2025 at 10:18 AM
🌱Menikö sinulta viime viikon ORSI-seminaari "Kestävyyden strateginen johtaminen kunnissa" ohi?
🎬Älä hätäänny, saimme juuri tallenteen julki.

@ecowelfare.fi
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February 11, 2025 at 6:57 AM