{"id":64,"date":"2025-04-22T15:47:52","date_gmt":"2025-04-22T12:47:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.uwasa.fi\/sustainableinnovations\/?page_id=64"},"modified":"2025-04-22T15:47:57","modified_gmt":"2025-04-22T12:47:57","slug":"contributors-participants","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/sites.uwasa.fi\/sustainableinnovations\/contributors-participants\/","title":{"rendered":"Confirmed contributors &amp; participants"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Practice perspectives <\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Representatives from our industrial partners will offer practice perspectives via impulse lectures and a scene-setting panel to open the conference. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wartsila.com\/media\/news\/21-03-2023-wartsila-s-juha-kytola-named-as-chief-technology-officer-of-the-year-2023-3243641\"><em>Juha Kyt\u00f6l\u00e4, Director of R&amp;D and Engineering at W\u00e4rtsil\u00e4, CTO of the year 2023, <\/em><\/a>will share his perspective in the opening session in an interview with our keynote speakers.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong>Opening and closing keynote speakers <\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><em>Gary Knight<\/em>, Willamette University, President, Academy of International Business<\/li>\n<li><em>Helen Lawton Smith<\/em>, CIMR, Birkbeck University of London, UK;<\/li>\n<li><em>Darren Dalcher<\/em>, Lancaster University Management School, Lancaster University UK; will offer closing remarks to the conference<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong>Plenary speakers and confirmed contributors: \u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><em>Filippo di Pietro,<\/em> <em>Facultad de Ciencias Econ\u00f3micas y Empresariales, Universidad de Sevilla, Spain, &amp; Kevin Campbell, Stirling Business School, Scotland<\/em>, \u201cFactors affecting the pace of transition to low carbon energy systems\u201d<\/li>\n<li><em>Jie Wu,<\/em> <em>University of Aberdeen, Africa-Asia Centre for Sustainability,<\/em> \u201cInnovation Strategies for New Capabilities and Sustainability in the Digital Age\u201d<\/li>\n<li><em>Jouni K Juntunen<\/em>,<em> University of Vaasa, InnoLab<\/em>, \u201cConfiguring partnership portfolios for enhanced ESG performance: A QCA analysis\u201d<\/li>\n<li><em>Martin Meyer, University of Vaasa, InnoLab, \u201c<\/em>Absorptive capacity for international talent \u2013 towards a research agenda\u201d<\/li>\n<li><em>Tomasz Mroczkowski<\/em>, <em>American University, <\/em><em>Kogod School of Business, \u201c<\/em>The Multipolar world economy of 2035\u201d<\/li>\n<li><em>Tommi Lehtonen, University of Vaasa, School of Marketing &amp; Communications and InnoLab<\/em>, \u201cEthics of genetically modified biofuels\u201d<\/li>\n<li><em>Anupam Dutta, University of Vaasa, InnoLab<\/em>, School of Accounting &amp; Finance, and InnoLab, \u201cClimate risk and clean water investments: Implications for sustainable development\u201d<\/li>\n<li><em>Zaheer Khan,<\/em> <em>University of Aberdeen &amp; University of Vaasa,<\/em> \u201cEntrepreneurial ecosystems as boundary spanners in supporting internationalisation\u201d<\/li>\n<li><em>Julio Serrano; Ausrine \u0160ilenskyt\u0117, Rodrigo Rabetino, University of Vaasa, School of Management, \u201c<\/em>Addressing sustainability challenges by utilizing advanced technologies in the era of deglobalization\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h4><em>In our last workshop&#8230;<\/em><\/h4>\n<p>Presenters at our last workshop included contributors from the University of Vaasa, as well as the following institutions:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Centre for Innovation Management Research, Birkbeck, University of London<\/li>\n<li>Kogod School of Business, American University, Washington DC<\/li>\n<li>Africa-Asia Centre for Sustainability Research, University of Aberdeen, Scotland, UK<\/li>\n<li>Durham Business School, University of Durham, UK<\/li>\n<li>Florida Atlantic University, USA<\/li>\n<li>Kent Business School, University of Kent, UK<\/li>\n<li>Lancaster University Management School, UK<\/li>\n<li>SGH Warsaw School of Economics, Poland<\/li>\n<li>Stony Brook University &amp; US National Science Foundation, USA<\/li>\n<li>University of Leeds Business School, USA<\/li>\n<li>University of South Florida, USA<\/li>\n<li>WiIlamette University, Salem, Oregon, USA<\/li>\n<li>Design Centre Muova, Vaasa University of Applied Sciences, Vaasa, Finland<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Practice perspectives Representatives from our industrial partners will offer practice perspectives via impulse lectures and a scene-setting panel to open the conference. Juha Kyt\u00f6l\u00e4, Director of R&amp;D and Engineering at W\u00e4rtsil\u00e4, CTO of the year 2023, will share his perspective in the opening session in an interview with our keynote speakers. 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