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 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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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 -
Catalysts in a Sustainable Circular Economy: Directions for future research
Lehtimäki, Hanna; Aarikka-Stenroos, Leena; Jokinen, Ari; Jokinen, Pekka; Kotilainen, Juha. Teoksessa: Lehtimäki, Hanna; Aarikka-Stenroos, Leena; Jokinen, Ari; Jokinen, Pekka(toim.) , 2023. The Routledge Handbook of Catalysts for a Sustainable Circular Economy. s. 584-588. Routledge -
Enablers of a circular economy: A strength-based stakeholder engagement approach
Lehtimäki, Hanna; Kujala, Johanna; Thatchenkery, Tojo. Teoksessa: Kujala, Johanna; Heikkinen, Anna; Blomberg, Annika(toim.) , 2023. Stakeholder Engagement in a Sustainable Circular Economy: Theoretical and Practical Perspectives. s. 365-392. Palgrave Macmillan -
In the margins of stakeholder engagement: Fringe stakeholders' inclusion in sustainability transition initiatives
Galvão Lyra, Mariana; Lehtimäki, Hanna. Teoksessa: Kujala, Johanna; Heikkinen, Anna; Blomberg, Annika(toim.) , 2023. Stakeholder Engagement in a Sustainable Circular Economy: Theoretical and Practical Perspectives. s. 393-425. Palgrave Macmillan -
Introduction: Circular economy catalysts in sustainability transition
Lehtimäki, Hanna; Aarikka-Stenroos, Leena; Jokinen, Ari; Jokinen, Pekka; Kotilainen, Juha. Teoksessa: Lehtimäki, Hanna; Aarikka-Stenroos, Leena; Jokinen, Ari; Jokinen, Pekka(toim.) , 2023. The Routledge Handbook of Catalysts for a Sustainable Circular Economy. s. 1-17. Routledge -
Oveluutta ja ketteryyttä tarvitaan
Henttonen, Kaisa; Piispanen, Ville-Veikko; Lehtimäki, Hanna. 2023. Uusiouutiset. : 18 -
Project-based practices for promoting a sustainability transition in a city organization and its urban context
Lehtimäki, Hanna; Jokinen, Ari; Pitkänen, Jatta. 2023. International journal of project management. 41: . 102516 -
Prospecting the Past for the Future: Storytelling in Making an Emerging Innovative Business Domain
Parkkinen, Ida A; Lehtimäki, Hanna P; Helén, Ilpo A. Teoksessa: Mills, Albert J; Deal, Nicholous(toim.) , 2023. A World Scientific Encyclopedia of Business Storytelling Set 1 (In 5 Volumes): Corporate and Business Strategies of Business Storytelling: Volume 2: History and Business Storytelling. s. 241-270. World scientific -
Sustainability Project Champions as Environmental Leaders in a City Organization: Driving the Urban Circular Economy
Pitkänen, Jatta; Lehtimäki, Hanna; Jokinen, Ari. 2023. South asian journal of business and management cases. 12: 52-64 -
The Routledge Handbook of Catalysts for a Sustainable Circular Economy
Lehtimäki, Hanna; Aarikka-Stenroos, Leena; Jokinen, Ari; Jokinen, Pekka. 2023. Routledge Environment and Sustainability Handbooks. . Routledge