Projects per year
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The Quantitative Science and Technology team is interested in exploring and exploiting novel and unconventional data to comprehend complex systemic Social, Technological and Economical challenges (innovation studies). The team works to test and validate new constructs and variables that have the potential to answer nascent questions in Science, Technology and Innovation studies.
While our team works with a variety of problems from economics, corporate strategy and sustainability, we share a common thread in combining data to understand the complexity of the issues we want to understand better. We share an interest towards technological change, advancement and exploring multidisciplinary nature of technologies. We try to understand what drives innovation and technological progress and what are the true outcomes of innovation. This work often centers on productivity, implications of technology to society, technological emergence and sustainable development transitions.
The current research questions we are ambitious to solve through our projects are:
- What are the novel big data approaches that allow us to better understand the developing nature of science and technology?
- How can we measure the emerging Data economy?
- How to better understand the changing nature of work and in particular changes in skill requirements.
- How can we identify unseen data and model the lost natural resources (globally approx. 40%) and their impact to the innovation systems?
- How can we find ways to improve the validity and increase the reliability of the big data utilization in innovation studies.
- What are the relevant applications of time series data in innovation studies?
- Why do R&D investments not translate anymore into productivity growth in Europe?
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Profiles
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Asta Bäck
- BA2A03 Quantitative Science and Technology Studies - Principal Scientist
Person: Senior Principal Scientists, Principal Scientists
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Matthias Deschryvere
- BA2A03 Quantitative Science and Technology Studies - Senior Scientist
Person: Senior Scientists
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Arash Hajikhani
- BA2A03 Quantitative Science and Technology Studies - Senior Scientist
Person: Senior Scientists
Projects
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GENDER STI: Gender Equality in Science, Technology and Innovation Bilateral and Multilateral Dialogues
Rilla, N., Hajikhani, A., Lima-Toivanen, M., Merisalo, M. & Sanchez Nieminen, G.
1/11/20 → 31/10/23
Project: EU project
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INNOSDG: Mapping Sustainable Development Activity; Its Evolution and Impact in Science, Technology, Innovation and Businesses
Hajikhani, A., Pihlajamaa, M., Suominen, A. & Pajula, T.
1/09/20 → 1/09/22
Project: Business Finland project
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VNK_T&K: R&D activities of companies and prerequisites and steps for achieving 4% R&D intensity
Suominen, A., Deschryvere, M. & Lehenkari, J.
1/06/20 → 30/06/21
Project: Consultancy
Research output
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An exploratory perspective to measure the emergence degree for a specific technology based on the philosophy of swarm intelligence
Li, M., Porter, A. L., Suominen, A., Burmaoglu, S. & Carley, S., May 2021, In: Technological Forecasting and Social Change. 166, 17 p., 120621.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Scientific › peer-review
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COVID-19 information disorder: six types of harmful information during the pandemic in Europe
Hansson, S., Orru, K., Torpan, S., Bäck, A., Kazemekaityte, A., Meyer, S. F., Ludvigsen, J., Savadori, L., Galvagni, A. & Pigrée, A., 2021, (Accepted/In press) In: Journal of Risk Research.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Scientific › peer-review
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Dataset on researcher's mobility by utilising bibliometric data: Case of Finland-based scholars for the duration of 2008-2018
Hajikhani, A. & Suominen, A., 1 Feb 2021, In: Data in Brief. 34, p. 106764 106764.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Scientific › peer-review
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Datasets
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SFINNO
van der Have, R. (Creator), Oksanen, J. (Creator), Rilla, N. (Creator), Mäkinen, I. (Creator), Saarinen, J. (Creator), Palmberg, C. (Creator) & Lemola, T. (Creator), VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland, 1990
Dataset
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The Science Map of Finland
Hajikhani, A. (Creator) & Suominen, A. (Creator), VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland, 1 Dec 2018
Dataset
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Finland's Knowledge Creators Mobility Data
Hajikhani, A. (Creator), VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland, 20 May 2020
Dataset
Activities
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Webinar: Circular economy society – building future co-innovation between Japan and Finland
Arho Suominen (Speaker)
27 Aug 2020Activity: Talk or presentation types › Conference presentation
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Invited talk at the Executive MBA course on the long-cycles of technological change
Arho Suominen (Speaker)
10 Jan 2020Activity: Talk or presentation types › Public or invited talk
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Invited talk on "Data Analytics in the Emerging Technology Adoption and Use" course
Arho Suominen (Speaker)
15 Jan 2020Activity: Talk or presentation types › Public or invited talk
Press / Media
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Kestävän kehityksen innovaatiot ovat sauma suomalaisten yritysten menestykseen!
Leena Pentikäinen & Mika Naumanen
8/01/20
1 Media contribution
Press/Media: Expert Comment