Keyword: Entrepreneurship

The DESI2 project helping renewal in education and the social and health care sector

The Academy of Finland has granted over 750 000 euros to the University of Eastern Finland and the University of Turku to pursue the Academic Entrepreneurship as a social process (ACE) research project. The four-year project studies academic entrepreneurship and entrepreneurship education and training in the transformation of universities, that are marked by financial pressure and the growing importance of societal impact.

Annual Global Entrepreneurship Monitor (GEM) Finnish 2015 Report has been published. The national GEM study introduces the state-of-the-art figures of the emerging, newand established entrepreneurship in Finland. In addition, conditions that enhance or hinder new business creation, i.e entrepreneurial framework conditions, are assessed and compared in national and global level in the report.

​New study shows that entrepreneurs who are passionate about inventing and developing their ventures are more likely to engage in bricolage and, combined, the affective state of passion and the “make do with scarce resources” behaviors of bricolage help entrepreneurs keep their businesses going.

The SWiPE - Smart Work in Platform Economy consortium led by Professor Anne Kovalainen (TSE Entrepreneurship) has been selected by the Strategic Research Council of the Academy of Finland to participate in the “Skilled Employees – Successful Labour Market” call. The consortium, directed from the University of Turku, was granted 1 526 000 euro by the Academy of Finland to pursue the project.