Research Team

Entre has longstanding experience on policy relevant research focusing on entrepreneurship, innovation and work as well as on ecosystems and networks. PI, Professor Jarna Heinonen, the Head of the Department of Management and Entrepreneurship, has over 25 years of expertise from policy-oriented and academic research in entrepreneurship, particularly in small and family businesses and the blurring boundaries between waged work and entrepreneurship.

More importantly, during the last 5 years the Entre team has studied creative economies particularly from the perspectives of business and innovation in the H2020 research project Developing Inclusive and Sustainable Creative Economies (www.disce.eu). The Entre team has many-sided and complementary methodological expertise (both qualitative and quantitative approaches) for generating knowledge on the creative ecosystems and their bottom-up needs and related policies.

The team works closely with Adj. Prof. Arja Lemmetyinen (Pori Campus) which feeds in with expertise in network management, value co-creation in networks, place branding and destination, and brand management. Furthermore, she has wide experience in studying creative ecosystem, most importantly in Pori region to which it is also well connected with extensive regional, national and international networks The Pori Campus team worked closely with the Entre team in the DISCE research project.