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Miia
Martinsuo
Professor, Industrial Engineering
Professor, D. Tech.
Industrial Engineering and Management, especially Innovation and Project Management

Contact

+358 29 450 3431
+358 50 473 8818

Areas of expertise

Project organizing
Project portfolio management
Program management
Change programs and projects
Managing strategic change
Strateginen muutos
Innovation management
Process innovations
Manufacturing innovations
New product and service development
Industrial services
Servitization

Biography

As professor focused on innovation and project management, my research and teaching concentrate on industrial and knowledge-intensive firms and how they organize and steer their project business and innovation activities. I studied industrial engineering and management at Helsinki University of Technology and got my doctoral degree 1999. Before University of Turku, I gained over 20 years of academic experience as researcher at Helsinki University of Technology and as professor at Tampere University of Technology / Tampere University, in various research, teaching, leadership and administrative roles. Also, I have 9 years of industrial experience particularly in organization and process development in the metal and engineering industry. I am DIMECC-Fellow and EURAM (European Academy of Management) Fellow and act as associate editor at International Journal of Project Management.

Teaching

I teach at all academic levels: bachelor's, master's, doctoral, and continuing education. While my current focus is on teaching project and innovation management, I also have experience in teaching industrial service management, research methods (especially qualitative methods), individual and group assignments, and doctoral seminars. I have a strong background in thesis supervision and leading and developing doctoral education and doctoral programs.

Research

My research interests include: selecting and steering innovation project portfolios; program organizing of strategic change; front-end, autonomy, and control of projects; managing manufacturing and process innovations; and organizing and transformation of industrial service business. I focus on collaborative research with industrial and knowledge-intensive firms, through qualitative or mixed-methods research designs. I engage actively in international cooperation both in research projects and publishing research results.

Publications

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Going downstream in a project-based firm (2019)

International Journal of Project Management
Momeni K, Martinsuo M
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