Yhteistyöpartnerit - Industrial & International Partners - Samarbetspartners

ABB
Nature of collaboration: ABB Operations Development Group: ASDN project, joint seminar lectures/occasions, students employed, source of research funding. ABB Motors: M.Sc. theses, production/product development, source of empirical data (e.g. Make-to-Order/Make-to-Stock case data) PhD-projects: Katja Rajaniemi (2005), Natalia Kitaygorodskaya (2008), Petri Kärki, Satu Koivisto and Eero Halmelinna.

Wärtsilä
Nature of collaboration: ShipPower/Powerplant/Service: joint research projects (Modulemetrics, together with Wärtsilä's Commonality Team), source of research funding, M.Sc. theses. PhD-projects: Ahm Shamsuzzoha (2010), Helena Haapio.

Vacon
Nature of collaboration: common projects (ASDN calculation module "how to compute logistical costs before product development"), source of research funding, M.Sc. theses

Kone
Nature of collaboration: common research in Technology management (Ph.D. Kari Hakkarainen), Technology Roadmap -development projects, source of research funding, M.Sc. theses. PhD-projects: Katri Rekola (2006).

Wapice Ltd
Nature of collaboration: Research and development of Summium Sales configurator (www.summium.com), a system used by industrial manufacturing companies for mass customisation. Joint co-operation in research programmes CATER and NetChallenge.

Merinova
Nature of collaboration: joint projects, joint funding (e.g. Better Products in Time (BIT) – project), one professor previously a member of Merinova’s board.

Cleen Oy - The strategic centre for science, technology and innovation of the Finnish energy and environment cluster
Nature of collaboration: three research project initiatives (1) Sustainable fuel chain (2) Production of sustainable fuels from organic waste streams of process industries (3) Carbon neutral energy production: wind energy.

The City of Vaasa/ The Technical Bureau
Nature of collaboration: research/consulting in connection to logistics & transport, city planning, cleaning services, growth strategy, etc. PhD-projects: Päivi Haapalainen (2007).

The Finnish Defence Forces
Nature of collaboration: joint research and –projects on leadership and operations management (e.g. Transformational Leadership). PhD-projects: Henry Sivusuo (2006).

Etelä-Pohjanmaan Korkeakouluyhdistys
Nature of collaboration: EPANET-professorships, Prof. Petri Helo, Logistics Systems Research group.

Kasetsart University, Bangkok, Thailand
Nature of Collaboration: Joint research in nearly all research group areas, a long-standing annual exchange of teachers on Master’s and Doctoral levels.

University of Twente, Netherlands
Nature of Collaboration: A research programme "Patterns in NPD" in common since 2002, also joint arrangements for the EIASM Doctoral Summer School on Technology Management.

University of Trieste, Italy
Nature of Collaboration: A row of joint research projects in Quality management in public organisations (continuously since 2001), co-editorship of the Journal of Workplace Learning (Emerald) since vol. 19 (2007).

Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
Nature of Collaboration: Joint projects, applications and publications, researcher exchange.

Technical University of Kosice, Slovakia
Nature of Collaboration: Joint publications (e.g. 3 books, joint journal articles and conference papers), guest lecturing, joint research within manufacturing strategies and industrial logistics, knowledge/ technology transfers between university and industry. One of our professors was awarded the Honorary Doctorate of the Technical University of Kosice in 2009 for his achievements in research co-operation.

Georgia Institute of Technology, USA
Nature of Collaboration: Joint project applications and publications since 2008, researcher exchange initiated 2009.

University of Johannesburg: South Africa
Nature of Collaboration: Joint theoretical and field research, exchange of views of applicability of the research findings of one African country to another (Ghana, Zambia, Nigeria, South Africa).

North Western Polytechnic University, Xi'an, China
Nature of Collaboration: Joint publications (joint journal and conference papers), guest lecturing, joint research within manufacturing strategies and industrial logistics, knowledge/technology transfers between University and industry.

Technische Universität München, Germany
Nature of Collaboration: Joint forest research and conference paper writing, application for the Nissi International Fellowship for a TUM researcher submitted and accepted (will come to conduct collaborative research for four months during 2010-2011).

Universdad Pablo de Olavide, Spain
Nature of Collaboration: Joint research programme (funded by Junta de Castilla y leaon) on technology acceptance since 2008; participation at Pablo de Olavide´s PhD programme from Vaasa annually; 2010 second fully-paid guest professorship (6 months) from Vaasa at UPO.

MUOVA/The Aalto University
Nature of Collaboration: Several joint projects throughout the years. Currently ongoing "Better Products in Time” (BIT) for the Finnish boat industry.

University of Oulu
Nature of Collaboration: Joint projects in operations /service strategies e.g. market entries to USA, China, (CHISU project), docentships (teaching), University industry-knowledge/technology transfers.

Hanken School of Economics
Nature of Collaboration: Joint ventures especially in the area of logistics, common projects applications and joint international publications with the researchers from HSE.

University of Jyväskylä: School of Business and Economics
Nature of Collaboration: Research co-operation (a) in the Food Chain CSR research group and (b) in the ForEthics research group.

MTT Agrifood Research Finland
Nature of Collaboration: Research co-operation in the Food Chain CSR research group and joint journal articles and conference publications. One of our Ph.D. students, supervised by our Associate Professor of Sustainable Business, works as a project researcher at the MTT.

University of Helsinki: Department of Forest Economics
Nature of Collaboration: Research network co-operation between our ForEthics research group and their CSR-Forest research group.

National Consumer Research Centre
Nature of Collaboration: Research co-operation in the Food Chain CSR research group.

VTT: Technical Research Centre of Finland
Nature of Collaboration: Research project co-operations (e.g. MLOG -project), joint funding applications.

Maanpuolustuskorkeakoulu (Defence Forces School of Higher Education)
Nature of Collaboration: Joint projects, docentship teaching, operations/service strategies and transformational leadership.

Tampere University of Technology
Nature of Collaboration: Joint projects in operations strategies (e.g. ERISK, 4M,) joint PhD workshops during a couple of years.