Leading Minds of CKIR
Seija Kulkki is the Founding Director (1999-2010) of CKIR
Currently, she is a Visiting Scholar at Scancor (Scandinavian Consortium for Organizational Research) at Stanford University, USA.
During 2011, PhD Kulkki conducts research for a book with Professor Ikujiro Nonaka from Hitotsubashi University, Tokyo under a working title: Knowledge Creation and Innovation in Ecosystems: Challenge of Strategy and Structure. Based on wide international empirical data, the study proposes that organizations undergo major strategic and structural transformation due to the interaction dynamics of the open innovation in ecosystems. This incorporates managing and organizing for shared strategic goals and actions towards changes in production and consumption patterns; this may result in new market and industry creation. This may also incorporate new modes of social enterprising and public-private partnerships. The book discusses the knowledge-based theories of a firm in relation to the theories of innovation and innovation ecosystems in the context of institutional and organization theory development by among others Professors James G. March, Richard W. Scott and Walter W. Powell from Stanford University.
During 2011, she also elaborates with Professor Yves Doz from INSEAD on experimentative research designs for theory building which benefits of richness of empirical data and experimentation with leaders, social networks, firms, developer communities and others in real-life contexts. The working title is: Experimentative Research Designs in Social and Management Sciences: Insights versus Verification.
PhD Kulkki got the doctorate degree from the Helsinki School of Economics in 1997. During the fall 1997, she was an invited Research Associate by Timken Professor of Global Innovation and Technology, Yves Doz at INSEAD, Fontainebleau, France. In 1998, she was an invited Visiting Researcher at the Institute of Innovation Research (IIR) at the Hitotsubashi University in Tokyo, Japan in cooperation with Professor Ikujiro Nonaka, the School of Knowledge Science, Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (JAIST) in Hokuriku, Japan. In 1999-2000, PhD Seija Kulkki was a Visiting Scholar at Scancor (Scandinavian Consortium for Organizational Research) at Stanford University, USA.
Petra Turkama is the Director of CKIR.
She is also heading a research team focusing on systemic innovation through humancentric, demand and user-driven open innovation ecosystems. Her main research interest is Information Technology Management, Systemic Innovation and Knowledge Networks, which she is conducting in several national and European Commission funded research projects.
Niklas Ravaja is Director of Research in CKIR
Dr. Niklas Ravaja is Professor of Social Psychology of Information and Communication Technologies (ICT, University of Helsinki).
He received his Ph.D. (Psychology) from the University of Helsinki in 1996. He is specialized in the research on mediated and non-mediated social interaction; interaction of humans with ICT, media, and services; and affective and psychophysiological processes during message processing and decision making.
He holds strong expertise in research methodology. He has directed various large-scale international and national research projects and authored or co-authored over 130 scientific publications, including 65 peer-reviewed articles in international journals.
Dr. Ravaja is Associate Editor of Journal of Media Psychology and a member of the Editorial Board of Media Psychology.
