Jouni K. Juntunen- PhD
- Professor (Full) at University of Vaasa
Jouni K. Juntunen
- PhD
- Professor (Full) at University of Vaasa
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Introduction
Jouni K. Juntunen is a Professor of Innovation Management at the University of Vaasa. His research focuses on crowd-based organizing in the development of sustainability innovations, and he ia subproject PI for the Academy of Finland funded DigiDecarbon consortium and WP leader for EU Horizon project HOCLOOP. He is a responsible teacher of the Open and User Innovation teaching module at University of Vaasa.
Current institution
Additional affiliations
February 2018 - present
Position
- Professor
Description
- Teaching: Energy Business and Innovation (master students)
February 2018 - present
Position
- Professor
Description
- Socio-Technical transitions Towards Sustainability (master students, the course held in Tongji University, Shanghai)
January 2016 - January 2018
Aalto University School of Business, Helsinki, Finland
Position
- PostDoc Position
Description
- CEMS Business Project Academic tutor for a student group (sustainability impact assesment of an ICT company)
Education
August 2009 - November 2014
Aalto University School of Business
Field of study
- Organization and Management
August 1991 - January 1996
Publications
Publications (45)
Citizen users play important roles in the acceleration phase of energy transitions, during which small-scale renewable energy technologies (S-RET) become taken up more widely. From users’ perspective, turning the early, and typically slow, proliferation into a more rapid and widespread diffusion requires not only the adoption of S-RET but also the...
Sustainability is a key driver of innovation for products, services, and business models. Sustainability innovations are aimed at improving the environmental, social, and economic performance of the innovated solution. Given the complexity of many sustainability challenges, leading innovators may seek to boost their innovation capacity by tapping i...
The global energy system has a long way to go to meet international climate goals, and significant investment in renewable energy is required to accelerate the energy transition (IRENA, 2016, 2019). We examine how firm-and country-specific conditions in the electric utility sector impact foreign direct investment (FDI) in renewables. Using a unique...
The COVID-19 pandemic has impacted our societies with unprecedented magnitude. Various social rules and technological solutions have been designed to limit the spread of the virus. We have seen that governments have chosen very different approaches in utilizing mobile tracing software products to control the pandemic. We utilize fuzzy set qualitati...
Collective and citizen-driven activities for energy transition have been thriving globally in recent decades. Community energy innovation (CEI) developed through hands-on engagement with materials has garnered increasing attention from the interdisciplinary energy research community. The recent scholarly discussion has highlighted the role of mater...
The detailed studies of adoption and user activities indicate that continuous alterations accompany the proliferation of new technology, yet diffusion theory and system change-oriented frameworks portray the spread of technologies across a social or sociotechnical system with relatively few changes. To better reconcile the two orientations, we intr...
Solar energy can play an important role in meeting global energy needs in a sustainable and environmentally friendly manner. However, despite solar energy's accelerated growth in recent years, its level of diffusion is highly uneven when looked at on a global scale. The solar photovoltaic (PV) companies involved in the sales of PV systems are centr...
Energy communities hold a promise of increasing public acceptance of renewable energy by offering decentralization and democratization to offer cleaner and more flexible energy systems through self-generation, demand response, and storage. The energy community can be seen as an organization and actor in a larger ecosystem of actors to coordinate in...
Entrepreneurs need to mobilize funds, but they do so under considerable uncertainty about resource holders’ preferences, leading often to fundraising attempts that perform below entrepreneurs’ aspirations. Past research has offered contrasting theorizing and evidence for why entrepreneurs then make changes to their product offering during such atte...
District heating systems in European, Chinese, and Russian cities predominantly rely on fossil fuels. However, achieving full decarbonization demands a radical shift. This article delves into how decarbonization can be expedited specifically within Finland’s district-heating networks. The focus lies on key investors—companies vested in district hea...
The energy sector has traditionally relied upon large-scale centralized facilities, owned and operated by big investors, municipalities, or state-owned businesses. The local energy community concept emerged to challenge the dominant operating logic of the industry. These new types of collective energy-related initiatives are increasingly starting t...
Energy transitions are in many respects past the early exploration stages and moving towards the urgently needed mass market take-up. We examine the Finnish energy transition regarding how solutions-heat-pumps, deep retrofits and new district-wide solutions-that have demonstrated economic benefits and reasonable payback times have faced slow uptake...
Autonomy is often cited as a key aspect of energy systems. Previous academic literature on energy autonomy has predominantly approached it from a technological perspective, and conceptualized it as self-sufficiency of energy production. In addition to self-sufficiency, autonomous energy users and communities often aim to create energy systems that...
To date, a major portion of sustainability transition research has relied on retrospective methods to generate encompassing macro-level views of transitions. However, such methods may have considerable impacts on the insights generated in the study of intermediation, action and agency by actors on the micro-level of transitions. In this article, we...
Energy retrofits in households are an important means of reducing energy consumption and mitigating climate change. However, energy retrofit rates have generally been lower than expected. As a key reason behind non-adoption, the complexity of energy retrofits can be challenging for adopters to handle. In this article, we study how suppliers and ret...
Comprehensive energy retrofits by households and housing companies have been recognised as important means for emission reductions. However, the diffusion of comprehensive energy retrofits has not been as fluent as expected. In this article, we study the Finnish energy retrofit market and comprehensive energy retrofit acquisition process through pa...
and Keywords There have been many attempts to include citizens as more active players in the proliferation of renewable energy technologies. However, the roles that citizen users play in renewables proliferation are not limited to adoption, but include technological domestication, innovation, and market creation. This chapter first reviews innovati...
This article addresses the investment gap in renewable energy sources identified by several authors. Examining the case of a country, Finland, which introduced policy measures to diversify its renewable energy portfolio, we analyse the development of investments in renewable heat and power in response to new policy measures and contextual factors d...
Research on sustainable practices has attracted increasing interest as a way to understand energy demand and transitions towards sustainability. In this paper we elaborate on how practice theories can inform the discussion of experimentation. Practice theory suggests that the everyday life of people appears recalcitrant. Practices are robust, resil...
Consumers are no longer mere adopters of small-scale renewable energy technologies (S-RETs) such as solar, pellet and heat-pump technologies. Prosumers create new technology solutions, collaborate with other consumers, and share their ideas, knowledge and inventions with peers in online communities they have formed. These activities by consumers su...
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In the energy sector, the end-user role is changing from passive consumer to active co- provider with decentralized technologies. This enables new forms of collaboration and active engagement with technology. This thesis examines energy prosumers' active engagement with renewable micro-generation technologies and draws from and contributes primaril...
Users play an increasingly important role in product and service innovation. Finding the right users can require substantial search effort. Network searches are increasingly popular in searching for rare lead users. In these searches, implicit and inexact referrals have been found to comprise a substantial number of network referrals; numbers as hi...
This article compares climate impacts of two heat-pump systems for domestic heating, that is, energy consumption for space heating of a residential building. Using a life cycle approach, the study compared the energy use and greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions of direct electric heating, a conventional air-source heat pump, and a novel ground-source air...
The sociology of consumption uses the domestication framework to examine adaptation processes in which technology becomes part of everyday life. This study applies the domestication framework to renewable decentralized energy technologies (DET). Drawing on interviews and Internet material from household and summer-cottage inhabitants using DETs in...
The relationship between urban form and greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions has been studied extensively during the last two decades. The prevailing paradigm arising from these studies is that a dense or compact urban form would best enable low-carbon living. However, the vast majority of these studies have actually concentrated on transportation and/or...
An extensive body of literature demonstrates how higher density leads to more efficient energy use and lower greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from transport and housing. However, our current understanding seems to be limited on the relationships between the urban form and the GHG emissions, namely how the urban form affects the lifestyles and thus th...
While climate and energy policy voice concerns about citizen's lack of improving their houses and heating systems, some citizens by far exceed the expectations. Our research on heat pumps revealed over a hundred inventions by citizen users in Finland alone, despite the technology being in many respects uninviting to modify. Users' capacity to carry...
The new millennium has marked an increasing interest in citizens as energy end-users. While much hope has been placed on more active energy users, it has remained less clear what citizens can and are willing to do. We charted user inventions in heat pump and wood pellet burning systems in Finland in years 2005–2012. In total we found 192 inventions...
Housing and different buildings cause roughly one third of direct greenhouse gas emissions in Finland. The so called 20-20-20 targets set by the European Union encourage seeking efficient paths towards improved energy efficiency and thus reduced greenhouse gas emissions in all sectors. Residential building stock simulations on a national level are...
"Local climate action has recently gained attention as a complement to international and national climate policy. Within socio-technical transitions, local experiments (niches) are important initiators of change (Raven et al. 2008). Transition management views “local experiments” as central in a societal learning process for sustainability (Kemp et...
A thorough understanding of the user is crucial in technological design and development. The domestication framework has been used in sociology of consumption to open up technology adaptation processes where technology becomes part of the everyday life of people. This study applies domestication framework for air heat pumps, solar thermal collector...
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Questions (2)
A business phenomena / practice of disposing unsold new product before even usage starts has gained attention lately. Clothing giants like H&M and Burberry have been burning new clothes. Burberry though, promised to abandon this practice. Similarly, Amazon (in Germany) has found to destroy returned unused goods. This unsustainable practice seems to be rather widely used. Is there any academic literature, including interesting empirics, case studies, theorising that has been done to research this phenomena?
Is there any proper way to create a bidirectional fussy set outcome for QCA analysis? Lets say outcome can be for example loss or profit (company creating loss or profit). With crisp set you could mark loss as 0 and outcome with profit as 1. How about taking into account magnitude of loss or profit and going into fsqca? 0 would be extreme big loss and 1 would be extreme large profit and loss and profit can take value between 0 to 1 (after calibration). Basically you would calibrate profits between 0.5-1 and losses between 0-0.5. Is logically ok to create this type of outcome variable? Can you point to any publications where this has been done?
