Marina Weck

Marina Weck
Häme University of Applied Sciences

Doctor of Science (Technology)

About

46
Publications
13,325
Reads
How we measure 'reads'
A 'read' is counted each time someone views a publication summary (such as the title, abstract, and list of authors), clicks on a figure, or views or downloads the full-text. Learn more
144
Citations
Introduction
Marina Weck DSc (Tech) works as Principal Research Scientist at the HAMK Smart Research Unit of Häme University of Applied Sciences. Her key research interests include risks and trust in international business relationships, trust in digital environment and technology, technology acceptance and uptake, the age-friendly smart living environment and digital assistive technology, the cilcular economy, and circular business models.

Publications

Publications (46)
Article
Purpose – This study was developed in response to the need to develop age-friendly smart living environments (SLEs) due to the complex demands placed on society by the ageing of the population. It sought to analyse the potential that knowledge visualisation offers collaborative decision making applied to the development of a multiple criteria frame...
Article
Full-text available
The modern labor market faces complex challenges stemming from various factors, such as demographic shifts, the far-reaching impacts of digital and technological evolution, changing job profiles, and job losses due to automation and the green-economy transition. As labor market challenges escalate, it becomes increasingly vital for public employmen...
Conference Paper
Full-text available
Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) are unlikely to be achieved without the active role of governments and the effective utilization of modern technologies by public administration. However, the alignment between government technology (GovTech) and SDGs is not well established in academic literature. Accordingly, the objective of this paper is to...
Conference Paper
Full-text available
The circular economy (CE) is widely acknowledged as a highly promising and powerful alternative to the linear economy, representing one of the most significant advancements toward sustainability. Accelerating the transition to the CE requires the adoption of new circular business models (CBMs) by small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs), given the...
Conference Paper
Full-text available
Data are a strategic asset for organizations in both the private and public sectors that spans multiple domains and sectoral boundaries. For innovation ecosystems, the ability to frictionlessly exchange data across borders between stakeholders for better decision-making, predictive capability, and automation represents a competitive advantage in th...
Preprint
Full-text available
p>As the size of the silver generation grows, the demographic shift poses both challenges and opportunities in embracing innovation and technology. This study delves into the challenges and barriers faced by the silver generation when using digital platforms. It focuses on a collective intelligence platform, the Digital Silver Hub, and two age grou...
Preprint
Full-text available
p>As the size of the silver generation grows, the demographic shift poses both challenges and opportunities in embracing innovation and technology. This study delves into the challenges and barriers faced by the silver generation when using digital platforms. It focuses on a collective intelligence platform, the Digital Silver Hub, and two age grou...
Conference Paper
Full-text available
In the current increasingly competitive and technologically advanced market, significant opportunities to develop service innovations can be realized by utilizing data-driven decision-making (DDDM), which has been widely recognized as an effective means of making decisions that are more informed and based on evidence. Service innovation (SI) ground...
Conference Paper
Full-text available
This paper explores the challenges of today’s labor market service provision in the EU, where, based on our expertise, insufficient scientific inquiry has been conducted. As there are many different focus points and factors to consider in the modern turbulent labor market, we identify the main challenges along with a list of existing scientific dis...
Conference Paper
Full-text available
The silver economy is heavily reliant on technical advancements and Information and Communication Technology (ICT) due to the changing demographics and increases in the older population. There have been quite a lot of initiatives by several public and private bodies to tackle the challenges of the silver economy by involving technological innovatio...
Conference Paper
Full-text available
This article aims to contribute to a better understanding of the role of open science and its impact on knowledge management in the open innovation environment. The main premise of open innovation in the Europe Commission’s vision for Europe is to open the innovation process to all stakeholders from academia, business, government, and society. Owin...
Conference Paper
Full-text available
Smart Mobility Hub (SMH) is a transport node that provides smart transportation and logistics services for a particular area, such as city, city block or municipality, depending on its intended mission. Utilization of very latest digital and communication technologies makes a Mobility Hub (MH) smart. Smart mobility services benefit from technologie...
Article
Full-text available
In recent decades, Europe has experienced a major societal challenge-the aging of the human population. The Finnish government has responded to this challenge by focusing on individually tailored services that enable older adults to live independently and comfortably at home for longer with the help of digital assistive technology. This paper prese...
Article
This article seeks to contribute to the existing body of knowledge management systems (KMS) literature by using cognitive mapping and demonstrating its usefulness in terms of context analysis for identifying the knowledge needs of multiple stakeholders and the appropriate characteristics of a KMS technology solution. Empirical data were collected t...
Article
Full-text available
Rapidly aging societies are exerting pressure on the public and private sectors to provide e-services as integral parts of age-friendly smart living environments (SLEs). It is also recognized that interoperable cross-border e-services can reduce this societal challenge, particularly in more ‘individualistic’ countries in Northern and Western Europe...
Article
Full-text available
Rapidly aging societies are exerting pressure on the public and private sectors to provide e-services as integral parts of age-friendly smart living environments (SLEs). It is also recognized that interoperable cross-border eservices can reduce this societal challenge, particularly in more ‘individualistic’ countries in Northern and Western Europe...
Conference Paper
Full-text available
This paper describes e-Tilat use case which is Seniotek company’s new product. The use case describes application of Data Driven Business Model (DDBM) in product development and business operations for the new e-Tilat product. The research question is: Is it possible for a small SME to achieve business advantage by applying DDBM and can it bring tr...
Conference Paper
Full-text available
Population aging is a major societal challenge worldwide, and the Baltic Sea region is no exception. This challenge has increased interest in successful aging through digital assistive technology (DAT). This paper seeks to shed more light on the potential impact of DAT on successful aging by offering deeper insight into the needs and expectations o...
Conference Paper
Full-text available
The aim of this paper is to explore and describe, how a methodology for collecting and reviewing tools and methods on open innovation, can integrate and operationalize stakeholders involved in processes of open innovation development. The authors originally did this through the realization of an open innovation toolkit with a scope of use applying...
Conference Paper
Full-text available
The paper examines technological and organizational complexity related to cross-border data exchange and communication among public entities, private sector and seniors on the platform called Silver Hub. We need to look at challenges raised while designing architecture and business cases supporting service provision within the silver economy domain...
Chapter
This chapter aims to contribute to a better understanding of how sustainable development (SD) can be supported in the building of age-friendly smart living environments (SLEs) to meet the needs of an increasingly ageing population. The proposed holistic analysis framework enables regional stakeholders engaged in building age-friendly SLEs to analys...
Conference Paper
Full-text available
The use of assistive technology to promote successful ageing is considered critical in that it strengthens governments' efforts across the world in facing the challenge of meeting the needs of growing ageing populations. This paper presents the findings of an empirically driven multiple case study on the dynamics of the silver economy market in the...
Conference Paper
Full-text available
This work-in-progress study reviews co-designing processes through the lens of possibility-driven design (PDD). A knowledge management model (KMM) is co-designed by facilitating the development work of senior and regional innovation actors who share ideas, experience and information in the development of smart products and services for an age-frien...
Conference Paper
Full-text available
An age-friendly smart living environment (SLE) is a common target of governments and businesses worldwide that enable seniors to continue living a comfortable, independent, and active life outside of any institutional care settings. A critical factor for building such SLEs is effective knowledge management (KM) that supports innovation actors to sc...
Article
The ageing of society is a worldwide phenomenon, particularly in industrialised countries, like Finland. To tackle the challenges of swiftly rising healthcare and social welfare costs and a new type of demand for related services, digital assistive technology solutions have emerged in recent years. Through qualitative semi-structured interviews con...
Article
The ageing of society is a worldwide phenomenon, particularly in industrialised countries, like Finland. To tackle the challenges of swiftly rising healthcare and social welfare costs and a new type of demand for related services, digital assistive technology solutions have emerged in recent years. Through qualitative semi-structured interviews con...
Conference Paper
Full-text available
This paper represents a "work in progress" report of empirical study on the attitudes of ageing people towards digital assistive technology solutions as potential tools to improve their health and wellbeing with the emphasis on potential learning barriers. The study was carried out among older adults aged 60 and over in the areas of South Finland u...
Conference Paper
The changing age structure of the population, with its growing number of ageing people, is a worldwide phenomenon among industrialized countries, and Finland is not an exception. This has implications for swiftly rising healthcare and social welfare costs, but also for a new type of demand in related services, and thus creates business opportunitie...
Conference Paper
Full-text available
The changing age structure of population, with its growing number of ageing people, is a worldwide phenomenon among industrialized countries, and Finland is not an exception. This has implications for swiftly rising healthcare and social welfare costs, but also for new type of demand in related services, and thus creates business opportunities for...
Chapter
The changing age structure of population, with its growing number of ageing people, is a worldwide phenomenon among industrialized countries, and Finland is not an exception. This has implications for swiftly rising healthcare and social welfare costs, but also for new type of demand in related services, and thus creates business opportunities for...
Article
Full-text available
This article focuses on the practices and solutions currently being used to recycle energy and nutrients in the supply and sewage management of municipalities, agricultural land and livestock farming in the selected target countries. It is based on the results of a survey carried out as part of the CIRCLE project: “New Opportunities for Energy and...
Preprint
Despite the continuing increase in international business over the last few decades and a general recognition that trust is a key attribute of successful cooperation, our understanding regarding trust development and risks in the context of intercultural business relationships remains limited. Thus, the primary aim of this research is to contribute...
Thesis
Full-text available
Despite the continuing increase in international business over the last few decades and a general recognition that trust is a key attribute of successful cooperation, our understanding regarding trust development and risks in the context of intercultural business relationships remains limited. Thus, the primary aim of this research is to contribute...
Article
Full-text available
Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to reveal how trust develops between partner firms in the context of intercultural business relationships and how understanding of the business culture of a partner firm and adaptation to it can be a driving force for the beginning and maintaining of trust development with that partner. Design/methodology/appr...
Conference Paper
Full-text available
The importance of trust in establishing and sustaining long-term business relationships has been convincingly stressed in the academic literature. Trust is seen as even more critical in inter-cultural business relationships between firms across national borders as these relationships imply greater uncertainty and risks originated essentially from d...
Conference Paper
Full-text available
Although the global financial crisis that emerged in September 2008 has caused a dramatic fall in business activities of Finnish companies in Russia, the Russian market is still remaining attractive, and building successful relationships with the local reliable partners became an increasingly important strategy for many of Finnish construction comp...
Conference Paper
Full-text available
Although the global financial crisis emerged in September 2008 has caused a dramatic fall in business activities of Finnish companies in Russia, the Russian market is still remaining attractive and building successful relationships with the local reliable partners became an increasingly important strategy for many of Finnish construction companies...
Book
Full-text available
This report presents main results of an international network profiling project that was carried out as a co-operation project with HAMK University of Applied Sciences and VTT during 2006-2007. Particularly, three management patterns and evaluation tools are present: 1. Risk Analysis for Business Operations in Russia, 2. Quick Test of Network and 3...

Network

Cited By