Anu Kurvinen

• Senior Lecturer at LAB University of Applied Sciences

The development of modern manufacturing technologies such as additive manufacturing and other laser-based manufacturing technologies have increased their usage, especially in engineering education. Education must correspond to different applications of these technologies to ensure the quality of their usage in the manufacturing industry. Laser-base...

Digitalization is changing the industry. As this change accelerates its speed, it also requires a transformation process where knowledge transfer between industry and research institutes play a significant role. There is a need to be more fluent, flexible, and efficient in order to get the latest research results into industrial implementation as q...

This article is a part of developing Experimental Development Ecosystem (EDE). EDE is a framework including researchers from University of Applied Sciences and a Technological University, students from both institutes, team entrepreneurs and lecturers, local enterprises and local cities. Learner-centric methods utilized with team entrepreneurs and...

The background of the article lies in South Eastern Finland, in Lappeenranta, where an active University campus has attracted a group of ICT startups as well as SME’s in the field to collaboration. The novel education approach also has another remarkable role as a developer and source of innovation. An experimental development ecosystem (EDE), wher...