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    • Blueprint for a training program on business opportunity recognition in SDGs 

      Harmaala, Minna-Maari; Harilainen, Hanna
      AMK-lehti / UAS Journal : 1 (Ammattikorkeakoulujen rehtorineuvosto Arene ry, 2020)
      As a part of a larger research and development project, we aim to create a training program for both businesses and higher education institutions on effective business opportunity recognition in the United Nations’ Sustainable ...
    • International Opportunities through Accelerator Networks: A Study of Startups Becoming Embedded in Edtech Context 

      Kairikko, Anette. (2020)
      This thesis examines edtech startups in the Finnish context. It focusses on the role of accelerator networks as embedding mechanisms for internationalising startups. The topic is pertinent because the role of accelerators ...
    • Millenials experiences of meaningful and engaging work – a study conducted at Finnish ICT and Social- and Health Care organizations 

      Isacsson, Annica; Heinilä, Henna; Raatikainen, Eija; Simola-Alha, Nina; Järvensivu, Anu (Premiss förlag, 2020)
      The social- and health care and the ICT-sectors will within the next 15 years have a shortage in staff. The retention is a problem among millennials. It is important to study how to engage recently graduated employees at ...
    • Dialog Modelling Experiments with Finnish One-to-One Chat Data 

      Kauttonen, Janne; Aunimo, Lili (Springer, 2020)
      We analyzed two conversational corpora in Finnish: A public library question-answering (QA) data and a private medical chat dataẆe developed response retrieval (ranking) models using TF-IDF, StarSpace, ESIM and BERT methods. ...
    • Adoption of Digital Collaborative Networking Platforms in Companies: A Study of Twitter Usage in Finland 

      Hallikainen, Heli; Aunimo, Lili (Springer Verlag, 2020)
      Digital collaborative networking platforms have become increasingly important for companies. They are widely used for communication and co-creation with customers, suppliers and other actors in companies’ value chains. ...
    • Interactive value formation: Drivers and outcomes from Airbnb guests’ perspectives 

      Sthapit, Erose; Björk, Peter
      Scandinavian Journal of Hospitality and Tourism : 3.10.2020 (Taylor & Francis, 2020)
      This study explores interactive value formation, particularly the Received 5 May 2020 underlying drivers of three value outcomes in the Airbnb context: Accepted 22 September co-creation, co-destruction and co-recovery. The ...
    • Facets of Mobile Lifelong Learning Services 

      Dirin, Amir; Laine, Teemu; Nieminen, Marko (SCITEPRESS Science And Technology Publications, 2020)
      In the era of digital services and digital connectivity, a massive amount of knowledge has become available and accessible all the time and for all ages. This mandates significant structural changes in the ways in which ...
    • Experiences with implementing the Living Lab concept in rural Tanzania 

      Habiyakare, Evariste; Heikkanen, Sakariina; Räihä, Kalle (Laurea ammattikorkeakoulu, 2020)
      The Living Lab (LL) concept is a widely used tool, especially in developed countries. Living Labs are a good way to establishing an open collaborative innovation among different stakeholders in real-life settings. The aim ...
    • Digitalizing Teaching Processes – How to Create Usable Data with Minimal Effort 

      Kauppinen, Raine; Lagstedt, Altti; Lindstedt, Juha (European University Information Systems, 2020)
      Having enough timely and correct data is essential for decision making, and information systems (IS) are largely used to collect that data. However, the traditional form-based solutions do not always produce adequate data. ...
    • Tell me more: How salespeople encourage customer disclosure 

      Niemi, Jarkko; Pullins, Ellen (Emerald, 2020)
      This paper explores salesperson-customer interactions to identify actual behaviors that result in enhanced customer disclosure and classify them as disclosure tactics, and to explore whether certain tactics are more likely ...
    • Innovations in Restaurants, Hotels and Venues 

      Moilanen, Teemu; Ambartsumova, Elizaveta; MoreiraKares, Elina; Muilu, Tuomo; Nguyen, Nguyen; Borgenström, Peppi (Haaga-Helia University of Applied Sciences, 2020)
      Corona crisis has hit restaurants, hotels and attractions hard. Thousands of managers and entrepreneurs suddenly find themselves looking for innovative ideas that would help their business to recover and at the same time ...
    • Digital disruption: experiences of Finnish eCommerce companies´ development 

      Mäki, Marko; Toivola, Tuija (Lappeenrannan teknillinen yliopisto, 2020)
      The aim of this paper was to contribute to the expansion of the eCommerce (eCom) operations of small and medium sized companies (SMEs) in Finland to global markets. We also wanted to investigate and reflect on our experiences ...
    • STUDENTS’ PERCEPTION OF GROWTH AND SCALABILITY OF STARTUP IDEAS 

      Mubaraz, Syed; Luomakoski, Jari; Khan, Rakhshanda; Heikkilä, Jutta (IATED, International Association of Technology, Education and Development, 2020)
      This study deals with the development of startup ideas, created in three entrepreneurial hackathons. We present a case of two similar interactive workshops, which took place after these three entrepreneurial hackathons. ...
    • CITYZER Observation Network and Data Delivery System 

      Schmidt, Walter; Harri, Ari-Matti; Nousiainen, Timo; Hohti, Harri; Johansson, Lasse; Ojanperä, Olli; Viitala, Erkki; Niemi, Jarkko; Turpeinen, Jani; Saukko, Erkka; Rönkkö, Topi; Lahti, Pekka (Copernicus Publ., 2020)
      CITYZER develops new digital services and prod-ucts to support decision-making processes related to weatherand air quality in cities. This includes, for example, earlywarnings and forecasts (0–24 h), which ...
    • An outcome of expert-oriented digitalization of university processes 

      Lagstedt, Altti; Lindstedt, Juha P.; Kauppinen, Raine (Springer Science and Business Media, 2020)
      Digitalization challenges the way in which business processes are seen. The potential for enhancement is even recognized in business areas that traditionally have little to do with IT. Even though universities have ...
    • Is cultural taste in Finland acquired from mother, father or both 

      Suominen, Seppo (The International Institute for Science, Technology and Education, 2020)
      The main goal of this paper is to address the importance of parental cultural taste in explaining cultural participation among older adults in Finland. The study considers the intergenerational transfer hypothesis and asks: ...
    • Tourists’ motivations, emotions and memorable local food experiences 

      Sthapit, Erose; Kumaran, P. Senthil; Björk, Peter (Cognizant LLC,, 2020)
      This study aimed to explore tourists’ general local food preferences, whether tasting local food was one of their major motivations for undertaking a recent trip, the emotions they associated with the experience, and what ...
    • A Conceptualization of the Senses, Emotions, and Memories in Memorable Tourism Experiences 

      Pedro, Rui Mendonça; Mendes, Julio; Matos, Nelson de; Ascenção, Mário Passos (IGI Global, 2020)
      This chapter explores a conceptualization of the elements that create a memorable tourism experience – senses, emotions, and memories. A comprehensive and coherent theoretical model is established to explain the complexities ...
    • Predictive modeling for trustworthiness and other subjective text properties in online nutrition and health communication 

      Kauttonen, Janne; Hannukainen, Jenni; Tikka, Pia; Suomala, Jyrki (Public Library of Science, 2020)
      While the internet has democratized and accelerated content creation and sharing, it has also made people more vulnerable to manipulation and misinformation. Also, the received information can be distorted by psychological ...
    • Personalizing the Learning Process With Wihi 

      Lindstedt, Juha; Kauppinen, Raine; Lagstedt, Altti (University of Maribor, University Press, 2020)
      Societies are changing rapidly because of automation and digitalization, but local and global business environments are also becoming more volatile. Changing societies also place requirements on education: the ...