1992-1995:
Dortmund University, Germany:
First degree in business, economics, and sociology.

‘Northern Exposure’, Part 1…

1995-1996:
Uppsala University, Sweden:
• ERASMUS exchange program in Marketing
• Master thesis “Nanotechnology and its Industrial Applications”
(in cooperation with Low Temperature Lab at Helsinki University of Technology)

Britain & Encounters of the Third Kind…

1996-2002:
SPRU Science and Technology Policy Research, University of Sussex, Brighton, England:
Doctorate in Science and Technology Policy Studies.

1997- 2001:
Consultant – TECHNOPOLIS Innovation Policy Research Associates, Brighton.

‘Northern Exposure’, Part 2…

1997 - 1998:
Researcher – Research Policy Group, Department of Technology and Social Change, Linköping University, Sweden.

1999-2002:
Project Manager & Senior Researcher (since 2001) – Institute of Strategy and International Business,
Department of Industrial Engineering and Management, Helsinki University of Technology, Espoo.

An excursion into the Finnish wilderness…

2002- 2003:
Research Director – Suomen Yrittajaopisto Oy / Finnish Institute for Enterprise Management Ltd, Kauhava.

Triangulations…

2002 - 2004:
Senior Research Fellow – Steunpunt O&O Statistieken, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven (Belgium), research appointment (associate professorship) in the field of technometrics and patent analysis.

Since 2003:
Senior Research Fellow & Gatsby Fellow for Technology Transfer – SPRU Science and Technology Policy Research, University of Sussex, Brighton (United Kingdom).

Since 2004:
• Senior Researcher, Helsinki University of Technology,
Department of Industrial and Engineering Management,
Institute of Strategy and International Business.
• Visiting Researcher, Steunpunt O&O Statistieken, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven.

Since 2005:
‘Dosentti’/’Docent’ (‘Reader’) for Technology Transfer and Innovation Policy, Helsinki University of Technology, Department of Industrial and Engineering Management.