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Teemu Santonen

Teemu Santonen
Principal lecturer, Laurea University of Applied Science

Dr Teemu Santonen holds a DSc (Econ.) degree in Information Systems Science. Since 2006 he has been acting as a principal lecturer at the Laurea University of Applied Sciences in Finland focusing on open innovation and Living Lab research. He has published over 80 scientific articles including 15 publications covering Living Lab methods, services, business models, innovation network orchestration and case studies. 

Santonen has coordinated and participated in numerous international/national Living Lab and open innovation projects in various domains including “health and wellbeing”, “creative industries”, “circular economy/sustainability” and “pedagogical development”. 

He has been an ENoLL council member since 2022 and is co-leading ENoLL Harmonization working group aiming to reconcile differences and promote coherence in living lab practices. He is also a scientific panel member of ENoLL and the International Society for Professional Innovation Management (ISPIM) and is a former board member of the Finnish Strategic Management Society. 

Prior his academic career Santonen was working over a decade as a development manager in leading Finnish financial, media and ICT sector organizations. Santonen also co-founded Finland’s first neuromarketing research company and holds a patent. The Finnish Inventor Support Association have honoured Santonen’s crowdsourcing project as the best school related innovation in Finland.

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