Pasi Juvonen

Pasi Juvonen
  • Doctor of Science (Eng.)
  • RDI Director at LAB University of Applied Sciences

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Current institution
LAB University of Applied Sciences
Current position
  • RDI Director
Additional affiliations
September 1996 - present
Saimaa University of Applied Sciences
Position
  • Team Coach

Publications

Publications (29)
Conference Paper
This study made a snapshot to a team learning and team entrepreneurship (TLE) study path that has been employed in a Finnish Higher Education Institute (HEI) for almost fifteen years. The TLE’s spinoff, a Labtic study path was also studied, and its situation was evaluated. The objective for the study was to explore how the TLE and the Labtic have b...
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This article presents results of an ongoing study where the strategic development of a Finnish Higher education institute (HEI) has been studied during its change process towards becoming the innovation university of working life. The objective of the study was to gain insights what kind of discussion activating interviewees imagination might raise...
Article
Higher education institutes (HEIs) have sought efficiency through mergers and consolidations. These bigger units have been studied regarding organizational culture, performance and efficiency but rarely from an individual perspective. In this study, we focus on a micro-level examination of how the people of the merging organizations make sense of t...
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In Finland, there have been several mergers among Higher Education Institutes (HEI’s) during last decades. This article focuses to analyse the development path of the latest, where two former HEI’s were merged into one since beginning of 2020. This study investigates how the HEI is currently building a culture that supports innovation. Data for th...
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Objective: The objective of the study is to recognize and discuss both success factors and pitfalls in enabling the adaptation and learning of a Finnish HEI from its first years of existence. Phenomenon: The Finnish HEI studied is a big specialist organization with over 500 employees. Its operations have been arranged into five units and four focu...
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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...
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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...
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This team learning and team entre-preneurship model of education has been deployed at the Bachelor’s level in the degree programmes of IT and Business Administration (BA). In BA studies the students who take part in team learning have specialized in marketing since 2009 at the Saimaa University of Applied Sciences (SUAS). The model called ICT entre...
Conference Paper
This team learning and team entrepreneurship model of education has been deployed at the Bachelor’s level in the degree programmes of IT and Business Administration (BA). In BA studies the students who take part in team learning have specialized in marketing since 2009 at the Saimaa University of Applied Sciences (SUAS). The model called ICT entrep...
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The purpose of the research was to clarify the effect of differences in motivational mindset on collaboration in a virtual research organisation. The research was implemented as an action research of one project case. The main result of the research was that differences in mindsets make research collaboration challenging if the differences are not...
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Tässä kirjan luvussa tarkastellaan käytännöllisten esimerkkien avulla digitaalisten korujen innvointia nopeasti ja kokeilevasti kehittäen. Lopuksi pohditaan nopeaa ja kokeilevaa kehittämistä isommassa kuvassa.
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Speed, uncertainty and complexity are increasing in the business world all the time. When knowledge and skills become quickly irrelevant, new challenges are set for information technology (IT) education. Meta-learning skills – learning how to learn rapidly - and innovation skills have become more essential than single technologies or other specific...
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Icaros is an information technology (IT) cooperative that was originally owned by 11 IT degree programme students of Saimaa University of Applied Sciences. This article describes experiences and challenges of team building of these students who are called ‘teampreneurs’ during their first year as team entrepreneurs. The findings provided here are b...
Conference Paper
This article describes experiences from developing and utilizing team learning and entrepreneurship environment (TLE) in information technology bachelor education in a Finnish University of Applied Sciences. In this study eleven ICT students (called teampreneurs) and their studying during the first year was observed. Our aim was to identify the mai...
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Entrepreneurship has a tremendous impact on the economic development of a country. As can be expected, many public policies foster the development of self- entrepreneurship in times of unemployment, praise the creation of firms and con- sider the willingness to start new ventures as a sign of good fortune. Are those behaviours inherent to a human b...
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This chapter presents results of a study, in which the literature related to organizational learning (OL) and learning organization (LO) also in disciplines outside information systems (IS) was studied. The results of the literature review were classified based on the proposed framework. Based on the framework, organizations tend to learn from dire...
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The prospects of locally operating small software firms have lately been dimmed by the processes of globalisation, Information Technology (IT) outsourcing and offshore software development. In this study, the current situation of the small local software firms serving the globally operating forest industry in south-east Finland is analysed. The ana...
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This chapter presents the results of a research project, in which the current situation related to the information systems (IS) outsourcing practices in four Finnish information systems development organizations was evaluated. The evaluation was based on employees' own perceptions, and it consisted of analyzing the current IS outsourcing practices...
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This paper presents the results of a research project, in which the situation of local software organizations operating with global industrial customers were examined. The prospects of locally operating software organizations have been lately dimmed by the processes of globalization, IT outsourcing, and offshore software development. The current si...
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We suggest to study learning software organizations in three projects; one to analyse the current situation for local software and system houses, one to study improvement and learning through examining knowledge flows, and a third to study the impact of a large-scale interaction process: Open Space Technology to share domain knowledge.
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This chapter reports results from a study that aims to analyze and compare the literature related to custom IS, packaged, and open source software organizational cultures, and their systems development practices. The comparative analysis is performed using a framework for organizational culture as lenses to the literature. Our study suggests that t...

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