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Marikka
Heikkilä
Research Director, Centre for Collaborative Research (CCR)
D.Sc. (Econ)
Marikka leads a research group focused on Business renewal. The research theme includes topics such as digital transformation, innovation and business models, and collaboration in business networks.

Contact

+358 29 450 2194
+358 50 440 2882
Rehtorinpellonkatu 3
20500
Turku

Links

https://fi.linkedin.com/in/marikkaheikkila
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Areas of expertise

Industrial Innovation;
Business Models;
Networked Business
Business ecosystems;
Maritime;
Qualitative Research;

Biography

D.Sc. (Econ)  Marikka Heikkilä is Research Director, Industrial Innovation Studies at the School of Economics, Centre for Collaborative Research (CCR). She has an interest in maritime business, business models and business model innovation, and collaboration and coordination in business networks, especially with regard to information systems and services. 

She has 20+ years of experience on joint research projects between companies and universities.  Most recently she was leading ecosystem and business models research in a consortium consisting of more than 20 maritime companies and research institutes.

She has authored numerous scientific articles, the most recent ones appearing in the journal of Small Business and Enterprise Development, European Management review, and Electronic Markets. 
Academic background:
  • D.Sc. (Econ.), Faculty of Information Technology, University of Jyväskylä 2010 
  • M.Lic (Econ.), Helsinki School of Economics 1996 
  • M.Sc. (Econ.), Helsinki School of Economics 1990

Research

Industrial Innovation studies including topics such as

  • Innovation of business models and operations, enabled by digitalisation, robotization, data, smart specialisation etc.
  • Management and collaboration
  • Ecosystems, platform economy
  • Change from product to service orientation

Publications

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Sea4Value – Future Fairway Navigation (2023)

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