Arho Suominen

VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland | vtt · Innovations, Economy, and Policy

This study analyses immaterial property rights related organizational processes in public research organizations. The study investigates the structural barriers limiting intellectual property rights development and commercialization. In addition, the study focuses on how different types of public research organizations, namely universities, researc...

Although for a long time policy has emphasized the role of intellectual property rights as a growth agent facilitating innovation, the literature has called into question this relationship. Critical studies have focused on studying policy frames and protection modes that could transform the intellectual property rights system to be more beneficial....

This article presents data on companies' innovative behavior measured at the firm-level based on web scraped firm-level data derived from medium-high and high-technology companies in the European Union and the United Kingdom. The data are retrieved from individual company websites and contains in total data on 96,921 companies. The data provide inf...

The Delphi approach is a central method in technological forecasting. It has been used in thousands of scholarly works and extensively outside academia, often in relatively narrowly scoped case studies. With the notable exception of Japan and a few other countries, broad Delphi studies run in the context of national-level policy planning are seldom...

The sustainable development goals (SDGs) are a blueprint for achieving a better and more sustainable future for all by defining priorities and aspirations for 2030. This paper attempts to expand on the United Nations SDGs definition by leveraging the interrelationship between science and technology. We utilize SDG classification of scientific publi...

This paper demonstrates a method to transform and link textual information scraped from companies' websites to the scientific body of knowledge. The method illustrates the benefit of Natural Language Processing (NLP) in creating links between established economic classification systems with novel and agile constructs that new data sources enable. T...

The use of online job advertisement has made them an important source of quantitative information about the innovation system. This data offers significant opportunities to study trends, transitions in the job markets and skill demands. In this study, we have utilized the job ads data of a major Finnish job market platform to investigate the emerge...

This paper employs the motivational trichotomy of financial rewards, reputational rewards, and intrinsic satisfaction (gold, ribbon, and puzzle) to analyze the role of motivation in the context of research and technology organizations. This research is based on a case study that used an online questionnaire survey of 421 scientists from a large mul...

Finland has been setting research and development (R&D) intensity targets for almost 50 years. This paper explores the Finnish national policy experience in fostering public and private investments in R&D. Three key insights are the following: a) a systemic and integrated policy approach needs an impactful co-ordination and governance mechanism; b)...

Software Product Management (SPM) is a relatively young research area which aims to understand how to productise a software product or a service as well as how to align it with the organisation's strategy. While the research of an academic discipline of SPM started to emerge as yearly as 1990s, the most impactful works have been published during 20...

This paper employs the motivational trichotomy of financial rewards, reputa-tional rewards and intrinsic satisfaction (Gold, Ribbon and Puzzle) to analyze the role of motivation in the context of Research and Technology Organizations. This study is based on a case study based on an online questionnaire survey of 421 scientists from a large multi-te...

en The use of big data and data analytics are slowly emerging in public policy-making, and there are calls for systematic reviews and research agendas focusing on the impacts that big data and analytics have on policy processes. This paper examines the nascent field of big data and data analytics in public policy by reviewing the literature with bi...

How to evaluate or measure the emergence degree or level for a specific technology is rarely discussed in the prior studies, and it should be a valuable issue for the relevant areas on technology forecasting, foresight, and technological strategies for macro and micro economies, particularly for those emerging economies who are chasing the technolo...

Description of the BIGPROD platform used to web crawl over 180 000 companies

Presentation on the early analysis of BIGPROD results for Data Science consultation.

Presenatation on the BIGPROD data platform

International Conference on Software Business (ICSOB), one of the first software-intensive business specific conference series, was founded in 2010 and during the last decade, it has each year hosted tens of studies addressing various aspects of doing business with software products and services. As the conference has remained rather similar, it ac...

Scientific discoveries are the result of global collaboration and often the multidisciplinary nature of collaborations. A core element of these successful collaborations will materialise through a researcher's mobility in location and disciplinary focus. Researchers experience numerous opportunities to practice locational mobility throughout their...

Policy brief aiming to introduce project objectives and spark discussions also introducing the preliminary achievements and ongoing actions.

Abstract. International Conference on Software Business (ICSOB), one of the first software-intensive business specific conference series, was founded in 2010 and during the last decade, it has each year hosted tens of studies addressing various aspects of doing business with software products and services. As the conference has remained rather simi...

White paper fokusoi autonomisiin järjestelmiin ja liiketoiminnan muutokseen

Scientometric methods have long been used to identify technological trajectories, but we have seldom seen reproducible methods that allow for the identification of a technological emergence in a set of documents. This study evaluates the use of three different reproducible approaches for identifying the emergence of technological novelties in scien...

Linkages between science and technology have been extensively studied using nonpatent literature citations or author-inventor matching. These methods suffer from limitations, such as the lack of citations to relevant documents or challenges with the disambiguation of author–inventor linkages. To mitigate these limitations, this paper uses Latent Di...

Originally published online by CEUR Workshop Proceedings (CEUR-WS.org, ISSN 1613-0073).

Purpose The ecosystem perspective on innovation and business has emerged as the secret sauce of innovative organizations. While its theoretical foundations are premised on innovation system literature, the broad adoption of the ecosystem concept has resulted in conceptual ambiguity. The purpose of this paper is to tackle the ambiguous use of innova...

Cluster of research publications as seen in the article A bibliometric review on innovation systems and ecosystems: a research agenda in the European Journal of Innovation Management

The analysis of a scientist's decision to conduct research in a specific scientific field is an interesting way to trace the emergence of a new technology. The growth of a research community in size and persistence is an important indicator of a new scientific field's vitality. Using a case study on triboelectric nanogenerator (TENG) technology, th...

Originally published online by CEUR Workshop Proceedings (CEUR-WS.org, ISSN 1613-0073).

Studying new venture success and failure is central to understanding the dynamics of new venture persistence. Investments, would they be subsidies, venture capital or shareholder investments, are seen as a statement of venture quality, but also as a tool for rapid growth. This study is a exploratory study that focus on creating understanding on if...

Despite the calls for a broader methodological base, the technology management and the forecasting literature remain short of studies synthesising quantitative and qualitative methods. This paper addresses this gap by employing a mixed method approach to study the case of Taxol, a revolutionary drug developed to fight ovarian and breast cancer. The...

“Disruptive technology & disruptive innovation“ have been of scholarly interest for years, but there is still a need to better understand the nature of disruptions and their relationship to emerging technology processes. This paper pursues these issues by analyzing the interplay of technological emergence, disruption, and innovation. Applying bibli...

The field of non-biological ecosystem studies is riddled with different kind of ecosystems, connections and relations of which are rarely discussed. For example, the field of software ecosystems is influenced by both natural and business ecosystems, as studies have identified a strong inspiration from both. In this study, we survey the ecosystem li...

The platform economy is disrupting innovation while presenting both opportunities and challenges for startups. Platforms support value creation between multiple participant groups, and this operationalization of an ecosystem’s value co-creation represents the “core interaction” of a platform. This article focuses on that core interaction and studie...

Entrepreneurship and start-ups have become modern hype terms. Especially, software start-ups have gathered a lot of interest due to a few successful examples, and the potential scalability of new business. A plethora of accelerators, events and communities has been found as well as new research agendas announced to boost and study the new phenomeno...

A board of directors is a supreme organism of a modern company. Often, a single board member has a place in several companies’ management teams This is called a board interlock and its impact on a single board member, companies and the economics on the whole has been studied for decades. However, there is a lack of understanding how software compan...

A board of directors is a supreme organism of a modern company. Often, a single board member has a place in several companies’ management teams. This is called a board interlock and its impact on a single board member, companies and the economics on the whole has been studied for decades. However, there is a lack of understanding how software compa...

Joining or leaving a platform ecosystem is a crucial strategic decision for a software producing organization. Multi-homing is strategy where a company participate more than one platform ecosystem. A decision to multi-home entails considerable impact for companies, as entering into a new ecosystem always requires investments in, e.g., developing, m...

Patent data has been an obvious choice for analysis leading to strategic technology intelligence, yet, the recent proliferation of machine learning text analysis methods is changing the status of traditional patent data analysis methods and approaches. This article discusses the benefits and constraints of machine learning approaches in industry le...

Delineating the emergence of nanotechnologies that offer new functionalities is an important element in an anticipatory approach to the governance of nanotechnology and its potential impacts. This paper examines the transition to next generation active nanotechnologies which incorporate functions that respond to the environment or systems concepts...

This study structures the ecosystem literature by using a bibliometrical approach by analysing theoretical roots of ecosystem studies. Several disciplines, such as innovation, management and software studies have established own streams in the ecosystem research. This paper reports the results of analysing 601 articles from the Thomson Reuters Web...

This study structures the ecosystem literature by using a bibliometrical approach in analysing theoretical roots of ecosystem studies. Several disciplines, such as innovation, management and software studies have established own streams in the ecosystem research. This paper reports the results of analysing 601 articles from the Thomson Reuters Web...

A clear indication of the change in the software application business has been seen in the emergence of new mobile device related ecosystems. We have seen these new mobile application ecosystems, such as Google’s Android ecosystem and Apple’s ecosystem, having had significant success in getting existing software companies as well as new start-up ve...

This study examines the current status and future projections of cyber security competence in Finland. Cyber security competence refers to research, development and innovations relating to cyber security. The report analyses the cyber security research of Finnish businesses, universities and research institutions, cyber security education, innovati...

Abstract: The purpose of this paper is to study the evolution of emerging technological paths in the automotive industry. Worldwide patent data from the years 1990-2010 was collected and utilized to define the technological life cycles of the electric and fuel cell vehicle technologies. The novelty of our study is practicing the patent analysis app...

Having a large number of applications in the marketplace is considered a critical success factor for software ecosystems. The number of applications has been claimed to determine which ecosystems holds the greatest competitive advantage and will eventually dominate the market. This paper investigates the influence of developer multi-homing (i.e., p...

The delineation of coordinates is fundamental for the cartography of science, and accurate and credible classification of scientific knowledge presents a persistent challenge in this regard. We present a map of Finnish science based on unsupervised-learning classification, and discuss the advantages and disadvantages of this approach vis-à-vis thos...

A large number of applications in the marketplace has been considered a critical factor in determining which mobile ecosystem holds the competitive advantage and eventually gains a dominant position in the market. This paper investigates the influence of developer multi-homing (i.e., participating in more than one ecosystem) in three leading mobile...

The complexity technologies require that companies have in-depth knowledge of the nature and effect of knowledge - its depth and breadth. Companies need to master expanding technological knowledge bases creating tensions for MOT. We examine how big data in patent landscaping creates insights into MOT. Using big data to manage Competitive Technical...

The health of a software ecosystem is argued to be a key indicator of well-being, longevity and performance of a network of companies. In this paper, we address what scientific literature actually means with the concept of ‘ecosystem health’ by selecting relevant articles with systematic literature review. Based on the final set of 38 papers, we fo...

Business and academic research frequently highlights the power of electronic word of mouth, relying on the knowledge that online customer ratings and reviews influence consumer decision making. Numerous studies in different disciplines have been conducted to examine the effectiveness of electronic word of mouth communication. Previously, typically...

Poster presented at Global Techmining Conference 2014- Leiden, Netherlands Abstract: The relevance, reliability and accuracy of patent data is the main issue in creating information for effective decision making. This research is proposing a way to increase accuracy of automated patent classification (APC) system that utilizes both structured and...

Applying distance-to-frontier analysis, we have used 2.9 million patents and population data to assess whether the relative capacity of world countries and major regions to create new knowledge and technology has become globally more equal or less equal between 1990 and 2010. We show with the Gini coefficient that the global distribution of invento...

Applying distance-to-frontier analysis, we have used 2.9 million patents and population data to assess whether the relative capacity of world countries and major regions to create new knowledge and technology has become globally more equal or less equal between 1990 and 2010. We show with the Gini coefficient that the global distribution of invento...

Applying distance-to-frontier analysis, we have used 2.9 million patents and population data to assess whether the relative capacity of world countries and major regions to create new knowledge and technology has become globally more equal or less equal between 1990 and 2010. We show with the Gini coefficient that the global distribution of invento...

Finland, as a country with significant parts located beyond the polar circle, has some intrinsic expertise on Arctic issues and technologies. In order to really benefit from the Arctic competencies calls for long term research activities and the development of competencies. This report is an outcome of an expert process (2013–2014), which aimed at...

The integration of national research systems is one of the central objectives of European research policies. Yet the epistemic objectives of this project have been poorly defined, and scant attention has been paid to whether political, social and financial integration of the European Research Area (ERA) is accompanied by epistemic integration. We d...

Mobile application stores have revolutionised the dynamics of mobile ecosystems. Research onmobile application ecosystems has been significantlydriven by data that is focused on the visualisation of an ecosystem's dynamics. This is a valuable step towards understanding the nature of the ecosystems, but it is limited in its explanatory power.Thus, a...