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Toni
Ahlqvist

Docent, Department of Geography and Geology
Research Director, Finland Futures Research Centre (FFRC)
Professor

Contact

+358 29 450 4697
+358 40 573 7398
Rehtorinpellonkatu 3
20500
Turku

Areas of expertise

Futures Studies
Technology Foresight
Human Geography
Regional Development and Policy
Economic Geography
Political Geography

Biography

Professor Toni Ahlqvist is Research Director of Futures Research at the Finland Futures Research Centre, University of Turku. He is an Adjunct Professor of Economic Geography and Technological Transformations at the University of Turku.

Research

Toni Ahlqvist is a Professor and Research Director of Futures Research at the Finland Futures Research Centre, Turku School of Economics, University of Turku. His research focuses on futures studies, strategic foresight, spatial planning, and spatial political economy. He has led numerous research projects that have covered, e.g., construction and use of futures knowledge in organizations and regions, societal antagonisms of emerging technologies, future generations in law-making, and futures of various industrial domains, such as game industry, maritime logistics, pharmaceutical industry and forest industry. He has published in such scientific journals as Technological Forecasting & Social Change, Futures, International Journal of Urban & Regional Research, Antipode, New Political Economy, Geopolitics, Geografiska Annaler A, Space & Polity, Technology Analysis & Strategic Management, European Planning Studies, Foresight, Journal of Futures Studies, Fennia and Science & Public Policy.

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