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NOVA Neuro-innovation and impact

Research group
01.02.2019 -
Business School, Faculty of Social Sciences and Business Studies
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The Neuro-Innovation and Impact (NOVA) research group operates as part of the NEURO research community at the University of Eastern Finland, which covers both brain health and mental health research. Within this field, we examine innovation, stakeholder participation, and multidimensional value and impact.

Who we are

We are interdisciplinary scholars in management and organisation studies. At the core of our work are:

  • multistakeholder collaboration between research, clinical practice, companies, patient organisations and public actors
  • the dynamics of knowledge, expertise and innovation
  • qualitative, reflexive and participatory research designs and methods

We do not approach innovations as merely technical solutions, but as social and organisational processes in which individual, groups and organizations negotiate goals, values and roles.

Our expertise

Our expertise focuses on how commercial and social innovations in brain and mental health are co-produced, facilitated and evaluated.

Our key research themes include:

  • Open social innovation: how societal value is created through open, participatory development processes.
  • Patient–researcher partnership: how patients and citizens act as co-producers of knowledge in research and innovation.
  • International research networks: how globally dispersed, loosely and tightly coupled networks organise, build shared identities and coordinate research across borders.
  • Internationals as entrepreneurs and employees: how mobile researchers and professionals operate within innovation ecosystems and develop new forms of collaboration.

Our research operates at the interfaces between knowledge and expertise, and between innovation, collaboration and participation. We combine organisational- and group-level analysis with individual- and actor-level perspectives.

Projects

Cooperation

  • University of Calgary, Haskayne Business School

    Professor Jaana Woiceshyn

  • Vrije Universiteit Brussels, Institute for European Studies, Belgium

    Professor Luk Van Langenhove

  • Saint Mary’s University, Canada

    Jean Helms Mills, professor

  • Kuopio university hospital

    Ville Leinonen, professor

  • Centre of Excellence for Patient and Public Participation (CEPPP); Montreal, Canada

  • Global Business Schoolf for Health, UCL, London

    Professor Simcha Jong

  • Brain Research Unit, UEF

    Director Eino Solje

  • Kuopio Brain and Mind

    Professor Annakaisa Haapasalo

Keywords

brain health co-research collaboration digital health innovation organization research patient partner patients as researchers societal impact stakeholders

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Other group members

  • Jean Helms Mills, Saint Mary's University, Sobey Business School, Canada Docent

Publications

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