Hanna Lehtimäki (Ph.D. Bus Econ) is a professor of Innovation Management in Business School and a Director of Research Center for Sustainable Circular Economy (CECE) at the University of Eastern Finland. Her research examines circular economy with theoretical frameworks on innovation management, strategic management, organization theory, leadership, and entrepreneurship. She and her research team, SunLab, advance transdisciplinary social sciences research and societal impact in sustainable circular economy transition. In her capacity as a Vice Director of UEF strategic research community Sustainable Resource Society: Circular Economy, Energy and Raw Materials (RESOURCE RC), she advances multidisciplinary social sciences research agenda for sustainability transition in business and society. Her research has appeared in journals internationally and she has recently co-edited books on art and sustainability and catalyzing sustainable circular economy.
She leads a Finnish Indian research consortium Circular Economy Solutions for Microplastics: Indo-Finnish Scientific Collaboration for Innovation (CESMI). She also leads a research project Leading Regenerative Circular Economy (LEADSUS) funded by the Finnish Foundation for Economic Education and is a work package leader in Academy of Finland funded research project Multi-level governance of critical materials for future electric mobility (GOVERMAT). She was a vicePI and a work package leader in an Academy of Finland Strategic Research Council project Circular Economy Catalysts: From Innovation to Business Ecosystems (2019-2023).
She is the leader of Sustainability leadership international Master’s programme at the UEF Business School and a multidisciplinary minor Sustainable Business and Society.
Research groups
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Innovation Management (INNO) 24.10.2017 -
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Sustainable Innovation Lab 01.08.2022 -
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Research Center for Sustainable Circular Economy 01.08.2021 -
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Microplastic research 01.09.2016 -
Projects
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Circular economy skill development for working life, CE4ALL 01.04.2024 - 31.05.2027
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Circular Economy Solutions for Microplastics: Indo-Finnish Scientific Collaboration for Innovation 01.01.2022 - 31.12.2024
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Making Circular Economy Socially Inclusive through Entrepreneurship (Project MILESTONE) 01.09.2022 - 31.08.2025
Publications
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Art and Sustainability Transitions in Business and Society: Theoretical Insights and Engagement
Lehtimäki, Hanna; Taylor Steven S; Galvâo Lyra, Mariana. 2024. Palgrave Studies in Business, Arts and Humanities. . Palgrave Macmillan -
Art in Fostering Our Capacity to Re-Imagine the Sustainable Future
Lehtimäki, Hanna; Piironen, Siiri; Isaac, Mark. Teoksessa: Lehtimäki, Hanna; Taylor Steven S; Galvâo Lyra, Mariana(toim.) , 2024. Art and Sustainability Transitions in Business and Society: Theoretical Insights and Engagement. s. 31-53. Palgrave Macmillan -
Art in Sustainability Transitions
Lehtimäki, Hanna; Galvão Lyra, Mariana; Taylor, Steven S. Teoksessa: Lehtimäki, Hanna; Taylor Steven S; Galvâo Lyra, Mariana(toim.) , 2024. Art and Sustainability Transitions in Business and Society: Theoretical Insights and Engagement. s. 1-9. Palgrave Macmillan -
Arvostava älykkyys sosiaalisen kestävyyden edistämiseksi työpaikoilla
Leppälä, Kristina; Parkkinen, Ida; Lehtimäki, Hanna. 2024. Neonataalihoitaja. 31: 19-21 -
Can the Arts Be Used to Change the Fundamentally Unsustainable, Socio-Economic Structures that Dominate the Modern World?
Taylor, Steven S; Galvão Lyra, Mariana; Lehtimäki, Hanna. Teoksessa: Lehtimäki, Hanna; Taylor Steven S; Galvâo Lyra, Mariana(toim.) , 2024. Art and Sustainability Transitions in Business and Society: Theoretical Insights and Engagement. s. 241-245. Palgrave Macmillan -
Installation humor: a resistive social practice identified in the engineering workplace
Leppälä, Kristina; Lehtimäki, Hanna. 2024. International journal of organization theory and behavior. 27: 206-220 -
Sustainability of the use of critical raw materials in electric vehicle batteries: A transdisciplinary review
Lehtimäki, Hanna; Karhu, Marjaana; Kotilainen, Juha M; Sairinen, Rauno; Jokilaakso, Ari; Lassi, Ulla; Huttunen-Saarivirta, Elina. 2024. Environmental challenges. 16: -
The qualifications and competence in supervisory and management skills among recently graduated Finnish forestry professionals
Manninen, Heikki; Lehtimäki, Hanna; Kilpeläinen, Riitta; Lautanen, Eila; Kärhä, Kalle. 2024. Silva fennica. 58: . 24007 -
UEF CECE case study report
Mielonen, Nuppu; Leppälä, Kristina; Lehtimäki, Hanna. 2024. MCAA Newsletter. 39: -
Catalysts for Urban Circularity: Reasoning by analogy approach
Jokinen, Ari; Jokinen, Pekka; Aarikka-Stenroos, Leena; Kokko, Marika; Kujala, Johanna; Lehtimäki, Hanna; Nieminen, Jere. Teoksessa: Lehtimäki, Hanna; Aarikka-Stenroos, Leena; Jokinen, Ari; Jokinen, Pekka(toim.) , 2023. The Routledge Handbook of Catalysts for a Sustainable Circular Economy. s. 21-41. Routledge