Practice perspectives
- Representatives from our industrial partners will offer practice perspectives via impulse lectures and a scene-setting panel to open the conference. Juha Kytölä, Director of R&D and Engineering at Wärtsilä, CTO of the year 2023, will share his perspective in the opening session in an interview with our keynote speakers.
Opening and closing keynote speakers
- Gary Knight, Willamette University, President, Academy of International Business
- Helen Lawton Smith, CIMR, Birkbeck University of London, UK;
- Darren Dalcher, Lancaster University Management School, Lancaster University UK; will offer closing remarks to the conference
Plenary speakers and confirmed contributors:
- Filippo di Pietro, Facultad de Ciencias Económicas y Empresariales, Universidad de Sevilla, Spain, & Kevin Campbell, Stirling Business School, Scotland, “Factors affecting the pace of transition to low carbon energy systems”
- Jie Wu, University of Aberdeen, Africa-Asia Centre for Sustainability, “Innovation Strategies for New Capabilities and Sustainability in the Digital Age”
- Jouni K Juntunen, University of Vaasa, InnoLab, “Configuring partnership portfolios for enhanced ESG performance: A QCA analysis”
- Martin Meyer, University of Vaasa, InnoLab, “Absorptive capacity for international talent – towards a research agenda”
- Tomasz Mroczkowski, American University, Kogod School of Business, “The Multipolar world economy of 2035”
- Tommi Lehtonen, University of Vaasa, School of Marketing & Communications and InnoLab, “Ethics of genetically modified biofuels”
- Anupam Dutta, University of Vaasa, InnoLab, School of Accounting & Finance, and InnoLab, “Climate risk and clean water investments: Implications for sustainable development”
- Zaheer Khan, University of Aberdeen & University of Vaasa, “Entrepreneurial ecosystems as boundary spanners in supporting internationalisation”
- Julio Serrano; Ausrine Šilenskytė, Rodrigo Rabetino, University of Vaasa, School of Management, “Addressing sustainability challenges by utilizing advanced technologies in the era of deglobalization”
In our last workshop…
Presenters at our last workshop included contributors from the University of Vaasa, as well as the following institutions:
- Centre for Innovation Management Research, Birkbeck, University of London
- Kogod School of Business, American University, Washington DC
- Africa-Asia Centre for Sustainability Research, University of Aberdeen, Scotland, UK
- Durham Business School, University of Durham, UK
- Florida Atlantic University, USA
- Kent Business School, University of Kent, UK
- Lancaster University Management School, UK
- SGH Warsaw School of Economics, Poland
- Stony Brook University & US National Science Foundation, USA
- University of Leeds Business School, USA
- University of South Florida, USA
- WiIlamette University, Salem, Oregon, USA
- Design Centre Muova, Vaasa University of Applied Sciences, Vaasa, Finland