Paavo is Professor of Strategy & Innovation at School of Business and Management, LUT University, Finland.
His research focuses on collaborative innovation and organizational renewal, often framed via digitalization or sustainability. He is also interested in tensions and dualities in organizing across various contexts, including competition and collaboration (i.e. coopetition), knowledge sharing and protection, economic and social value creation, as well as exploration and exploitation.
At LUT, Paavo teaches courses on “Contemporary issues in strategic management and innovation” and “Sustainable strategy and business ethics”, as well as MBA and professional-level courses in digital strategy, ecosystem management, and business sustainability.
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In 2020, R&D Management journal celebrated 50 years of publication. Co-Editor Paavo Ritala conducted a comprehensive analysis of the journal’s past five decades and looked towards the future in the R&D management field.
Development of the circular economy is stalling, according to Benito Mignacca, University of Cassino and Southern Lazio. He argues that a lack of collaboration between key players is hindering the transition to more sustainable development and that greater adoption of open innovation strategies could increase the uptake of re-use initiatives.
The rapid digitisation of services during Covid now means that it is not possible to fully participate in the socioeconomic community without a smartphone, resulting in the disenfranchisement of sections of the population.
An exclusive range of sunglasses promoted at the 2020 Tomorrowland festival were produced from recycled bottles and created using 3D printers by Yuma Labs. The intersection between digital technologies and the circular economy is the theme for an R&D Management Special Issue.
Traditional organizations start to face diseconomies of scale, scope, and learning as they grow. You know the stuff. But AI allows the modern giga-platform companies to grow at unprecedented pace and the it seems that there are very little limits to scalability. Read the book to understand why!
R&D Management has announced its two new Co-Editors-in-Chief Alberto Di Minin and Paavo Ritala, they are supported by an editorial team with significant experience in both academic and commercial spheres of R&D and technology management.
Choosing the best conference papers from the R&D Management Symposium was a difficult job says Dr Lawrence Dooley, University of Cork, one of the judging panel that also included Prof Ellen Enkel University of Duisberg, Essen, Dr Letizia Mortara, University of Cambridge and Prof Paavo Ritala
The sustainability of the media industry is one of the issues that is of interest to Paavo Ritala, Professor of Strategy & Innovation at LUT University. The COVID-19 crisis has shown that information provider and ‘watch-dog’ are among the many roles that that media has. Paavo talks about his research interests and his current project #MediaContradictions.
Innovation for sustainability is a way for firms to improve their competitiveness while also facilitating the greater good – but both facilitating and constraining forces are at play for businesses to actually adopt such a role.
Paavo Ritala, reports from the 4th Annual World Open Innovation Conference and comments that we are moving towards better understanding of both micro and macro environments of open innovation.
