Publication Authors: Nina Helander

Nina Helander, Krishna Venkitachalam, Hannele Väyrynen

Efficiency and value creation for citizens, communities, and societies are becoming increasingly important for the public sector. Public sector is continuously seeking for innovative ways to create and provide services, and despite acknowledging the key role of knowledge in innovation processes, the relationship between publicly available knowledge and innovation is still poorly understood. A more […]

IN: Proceedings IFKAD 2025: Knowledge Futures: AI, Technology, and the New Business Paradigm
351-357
Heidi Salokangas, Nina Helander, Heli Aramo-Immonen, Kaisa Sorsa, Susanna Monseau, Krishna Venkitachalam

The EU Strategy for Sustainable and Circular Textiles outlines a comprehensive approach to promoting sustainability in the industry, including the use of recycled and renewable materials, circular business models, the uptake of sustainable innovations, and the reliability of sustainability knowledge. Literature suggests that the promotion of sustainability knowledge spillover within the textile industry can have […]

IN: Proceedings IFKAD 2024 – Translating Knowledge into Innovation Dynamics
935-948
Krishna Venkitachalam, Nina Helander, Anik Bal

The solution to modern society’s wicked problems lies in collaborative efforts that extend beyond traditional boundaries of public, private and plural sectors, i.e. in hybrid organizational settings. For example, tackling societal problems, a collaborative knowledge sharing strategy can be shaped in the form of a Knowledge Management (KM) strategy that can enable to gain competitive […]

IN: Proceedings IFKAD 2024 – Translating Knowledge into Innovation Dynamics
949-955
Heidi Salokangas, Nina Helander, Heli Aramo-Immonen, Kaisa Sorsa, Krishna Venkitachalam

The EU Strategy for Sustainable and Circular Textiles outlines a comprehensive approach to promoting sustainability in the industry, including the use of recycled and renewable materials, circular business models, the uptake of sustainable innovations, and the reliability of sustainability knowledge. Literature suggests that promotion of sustainability knowledge spillover within the textile industry can have an […]

IN: Proceedings IFKAD 2023 – Managing Knowledge for Sustainability
1379-1394
Kaisa Sorsa, Heidi Salokangas, Salvatore Ammirato, Alberto Felicetti, Heli Aramo-Immonen, Nina Helander

In this paper we explore: What are definitions for legal innovation and regulatory innovation? in the context of the whole lifecycle of regulation. We use systematic literature review (SLR) method. The lifecycle of regulation consists of law drafting, law implementation, monitoring, and sanction of law in act. Definitions of legal/regulatory innovations (LRIs) are interpreted and […]

IN: Proceedings IFKAD 2023 – Managing Knowledge for Sustainability
1395-1409
Nina Helander, Krishna Venkitachalam

This paper is a work-in-progress study that focus on the role of KM strategies in the context of sustainable smart cities. Drawing on the previous literature on smart cities and KM strategy concepts, the aim of this paper is to propose a conceptual model to examine the enablers and barriers of KM strategies of codification […]

IN: Proceedings IFKAD 2023 – Managing Knowledge for Sustainability
275-283
Milla Ratia, Jussi Myllärniemi, Nina Helander

As a part of industrial revolution 4.0, digitalization has a major impact on organizational profitability and competitiveness (Viale and Zouari 2020). Digitalization is one of the biggest challenges organizations have been recently facing. Causing also organizations to respond to digitalization differently. Information technology plays a significant role in digitalizing organizational processes, also different automation solutions […]

IN: Proceedings IFKAD 2021 – Managing Knowledge in Uncertain Times
1810-1824
Reetta Kinnunen, Aki Jääskeläinen, Virpi Sillanpää, Nina Helander, Krishna Venkitachalam

In modern society, municipalities and cities are accountable for various societal service missions. In addition, cities and municipalities are expected to take a responsible role in solving the wicked problems such as climate change and ageing of population, coupled with sudden challenges, like the COVID-19 virus, together with the government. This kind of development has […]

IN: Proceedings IFKAD 2020 – Knowledge in Digital Age
1442-1459
Tommi Koistinen, Nina Helander, Tommi Mikkonen

The main objective of this study is to create a systematic map of the existing state-of-the-art research on service provider incentive models and incentive functions in digital business ecosystems that promote collaborative value co-creation. The chosen research method is the systematic mapping study. The classification of publications revealed eight main categories of interest: 1) Incentives […]

IN: Proceedings IFKAD 2020 – Knowledge in Digital Age
991-1005
Vilma Vuori, Nina Helander

The lack of appropriate knowledge management practices for networks has consistently been found to be the most critical failure factor of inter-organisational collaboration. Identifying the typical barriers in network-level knowledge sharing is essential for developing expedient knowledge management practices for networks. This paper contributes to the issue by examining what kind of knowledge management practices […]

IN: Proceedings IFKAD 2019 – Knowledge Ecosystems and Growth
2026-2034