Matti Karinen is a Doctoral Candidate at the
entrepreneurship unit working on sustainability and responsible business with
his project "Pathways to Primary Sector Legitimacy”. Alongside his own
project, Matti participates in research on entrepreneurial universities (Knowledge Governance) as well as
the platform economy, new forms of work (SWIPE) and digitalisation (Digital Futures).

Prior to starting his doctorate Matti wrote his master’s
thesis on primary sector MNE legitimacy and sustainability with a case company
in West Africa. He completed his bachelor’s studies with a thesis on the
determinants of competitive advantage in the mining industry. From London by
birth, prior to his studies in Finland Matti lived in South East Asia for
almost ten years. Matti joined the Entrepreneurship Unit and the Knowledge
Governance project in March 2015 and became a PHD student in 2017 (UTUGS from 2018).