Advisory Board
Dr Olli Mertanen, Chair
Doctor of technology Olli Mertanen is the Vice president of Turku University of Applied Sciences. He has been employed by Turku University of Applied Sciences or its predecessors since year 1986. Before that he made a career in the growing telecommunication industry and business where he was employed f.ex. by Oy L. M. Eriksson and Oy Philips Ab. During his career he has been engaged in many positions of trust and membership in local and international associations and enterprises. He has been awarded a couple of local and international prices. He is an active promoter of entrepreneurship as well in Turku region as in whole South-west Finland.
www.turkuamk.fi
Dr Thomas Baaken
Professor, Science Marketing, Münster University of Applied Sciences, Germany
Thomas Baaken (PhD, Diploma in Business Management) holds a position as a Tenure Professor in Technology Marketing (www.fh-muenster.de/fb9/personen/lehrende/baaken) at the Münster University of Applied Sciences in Germany. His research lies in the areas of Science-to-Business (S-to-B) Marketing, Business-to-Business (B-to-B) Marketing and Software Marketing.
1998-2003 he held the position of the Vice President Research and Development including Technology Transfer at his University. In 2002 Thomas Baaken established the cooperative Science-to-Business Marketing Research Centre (www.science-marketing.com), funded by the German Government and the European Commission. Actual research is focussed on creating new models in how to market research and sciences, establishing innovative instruments and processes.
In 2003/04 he visited as Guest Professor in “Technology Transfer & Management and Science Marketing” the Education Centre for Innovation and Commercialisation (ECIC) (www.ecic.adelaide.edu.au) at The University of Adelaide in Australia.
Dr Baaken is actively involved in ProTon Europe (www.protoneurope.org) as a member of the steering group and heading the WP “Interaction with Industry” section.
Thomas Baaken was invited to 18 different countries around the world to present this approach within over 100 presentations and conference contributions. His record of print publications also covers more than 100 positions.His PhD was awarded by the Freie Universität Berlin.
Mr Sakari Kuvaja
Director, FINPIN
Dr Matti Lähdeniemi
Ph.D., Adj.Prof.
Dean of Technology and Maritime Faculty
Vice President
Satakunta University of Applied Sciences
Graduated (Ph.D. in Physics) at University of Turku. Adj. prof. of Tampere University of Technology and University of Turku. Special R&D fields; automation, image processing, total quality management, knowledge transfer and entrepreneurship. Consulting tutor of numerous industrial projects. Publications (about 140) and lectures (industry, conferences) from above topics. Project manager, research manager or university professor in different industrial and academic R&D-projects in Finland, Sweden, Germany and Japan.
www.samk.fi
Mr Sean MacEntee
Incubation Centre Manager, Novation, Regional Development Centre, Dundalk Institute of Technology, Ireland
ww2.dkit.ie
Dr Tõnis Mets
Associate Professor, Head of Centre for Entrepreneurship, University of Tartu, Estonia
Tõnis Mets is an associate professor of International Business and head of the Centre for Entrepreneurship at University of Tartu, Estonia, since 2003. He has been management consultant in own company ALO OÜ, entrepreneur, engineer and manager of different high-tech companies in Estonia. He holds degrees from Tallinn Technical University (engineer of electronics) and Ph.D. (Technical Sciences, diagnostics of mechanisms) from St. Petersburg Agricultural University since 1987. He is an author of 15 inventions from early 1980-ies. His main research interests are in the field of entrepreneurship, knowledge management, organizational learning and innovation. As consultant and team leader has been engaged in Economic and Human Resources Development Project carried by European Union PHARE-programme; participated the working group of survey-audit about teaching of entrepreneurship in the European transition countries for OECD LEED. E-mail: Tonis.Mets(at)mtk.ut.ee.
www.evk.ut.ee
Dr Miroslav Rebernik
Professor, Maribor University
Dr Miroslav Rebernik is professor of Business Economics and Entrepreneurship. He is the Head of the Department for Entrepreneurship and Business Economics, Head of Entrepreneurship Studies at the Faculty of Economics and Business, and director of the Institute for Entrepreneurship and Small Business Management. He is experienced researcher and project leader. Currently he is leading the Global Entrepreneurship Monitor research for Slovenia and since 1999 running the Slovenian Entrepreneurship Observatory. Profesor Rebernik has a vaste experience in Entrepreneurship and Small Business Management research and has published extensively in international and national journals. His bibliography contains over 500 bibliographic units, participated at more than 60 national and international conferences, has published 7 books and contribute 9 chapters in 6 books published in Slovenia, Austria, England and USA, edited 3 national and 7 international conference proceedings, and chaired two national and 7 international conferences.
www.uni-mb.si
Dr Simo Saurio
Managing Director, CI City Image Ltd, Finland
Dr Peter van der Sijde
University of Twente, the Netherlands
www.utwente.nl/en
Ms Suzana Temkov
Director, EUROPEN, Germany
www.europen.info