Antero Järvi
akjarvi@utu.fi Vesilinnantie 5 Turku Office: 450C ORCID identifier: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7615-807X |
software engineering; agile and lean methods; software testing; entrepreneurship; entrepreneurship education; innovation methods; lean startup method; engineering education; digital business models; business modelling; platform business design; business ecosystems, game development; game business; start-up creation and development; entrepreneurial university; higher education in East Africa; entrepreneurship in East Africa.
Antero Järvi (male) is working as a university teacher at the department of Future Technologies in University of Turku, and has an MSc (1993) in computer science. He is a seasoned engineering educator and an expert on software engineering, innovation, entrepreneurship, digital and platform business models, and business ecosystems. He’s teaching and research focuses on software engineering, digital platforms, entrepreneurship and innovation. During the last five years he has gained experience in challenging context of East-Africa, innovating with disruptive technologies together with local universities, startups and Finnish tech companies. He has also co-founded three startups and mentored and coached a few dozen digital services/product and game startups. Currently he is involved in several startup and growth phase companies in various roles (CEO, board member, advisor).
Research interests are related to software engieering, innovation and entrepreneurship, specifically in engineering education. Currently the focuses on various challenge/problem based methods, innovation and entrepreneurship as pedagogical tools in ICT engineer education and routes to employment in the context of Tanzanian universities.
Currently the main teaching responsibilities are running three MSc level courses as a responsible teacher, and supervising MSc and BSc theses. All current and past courses are created and introduced to curricula by me.
Current teaching:
- Lean Platform Business Design (a hands on course on digital platform business creation, 3 instances)
- Advanced Course on Software Engineering (requirements engineering, stakeholder involvment, innovation, value creation, 2 instances)
- Software Testing and Quality Assurance (2 instances)
Past teaching:
- Software Engineering and Software Security (2 instances)
- Lean Software Startup (a hands-on course on lean startup innovation process 6 instances)
- Practical Agile Software Testing (hands-on testing course in agile project context, 8 instances)
- Advanced Software Engineering (a practice oriented course on agile and distributed software development, 9 instances)
- Software Testing, (4 instances)
- Project Course in software engineering (practical multi-team software development project, 6 instances)
- Basic course on Software Engineering, (13 instances)
- Programming III (advanced level programming and design patterns, 4 instances)
- Computer Network Security (3 instances)
- Various other basic level courses on computer science/software engineering/programming
- (2019)
- IST-Africa
(A4 Refereed article in a conference publication ) - Promoting Innovation by Adding Entrepreneurial Education to a Natural Sciences Curriculum-Case Tanzania (2019)
- IFIP Advances in Information and Communication Technology
(A4 Refereed article in a conference publication ) - Building geospatial competences in Tanzanian universities with open source solutions2018
- International Archives of the Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Spatial Information Sciences
(A4 Refereed article in a conference publication ) - (2018) 2018 Frontiers in Education Conference: Fostering Innovation through Diversity V Taajamaa, A Järvi, S Laato, J Holvitie
(A4 Refereed article in a conference publication ) - (2018) Kai K. Kimppa, Sami Hyrynsalmi, Minna M Rantanen, Antero Järvi
(Other publication) - Knitting company performance and board interlocks: An exploration with the finnish software industryLean Software Startup – an Experience Report from an Entrepreneurial Software Business Course (2017)
- Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing
(A4 Refereed article in a conference publication ) - (2017)
- CEUR Workshop Proceedings
(A4 Refereed article in a conference publication ) - (2015) Software Business – 6th International Conference, ICSOB 2015, Braga, Portugal, June 10-12, 2015, Proceedings Antero Järvi, Ville Taajamaa, Sami Hyrynsalmi
(A4 Refereed article in a conference publication ) - (2015) Software Business — 6th International Conference, ICSOB 2015, Braga, Portugal, June 10-12, 2015, Proceedings Sami Hyrynsalmi, Marko Seppänen, Tiina Nokkala, Arho Suominen, Antero Järvi
(A4 Refereed article in a conference publication ) - Analyzing Developers' Challenges in Mobile Application Marketplaces (2013) Proceedings of the European Workshop on Software Ecosystems 2012 Sami Hyrynsalmi, Arho Suominen, Tuomas Mäkilä, Antero Järvi
(A4 Refereed article in a conference publication ) - (2013)
- CEUR Workshop ProceedingsCEUR Workshop Proceedings
(A4 Refereed article in a conference publication ) - 2012
(A4 Refereed article in a conference publication ) - Revenue Models of Application Developers in Android Market Ecosystem (2012)
- International Conference on Software BusinessLecture Notes in Business Information Processing
(A3 Refereed book chapter or chapter in a compilation book) - Reducing the Number of Unit Tests with Design by Contract (2011) Hakonen Harri, Hyrynsalmi Sami, Järvi Antero
(A4 Refereed article in a conference publication ) - SaaS-Käsikirja (2011) Järvi, Antero;Karttunen, Jussi;Mäkilä, Tuomas;Ipatti, Jouni
(C1 Refereed scientific book) - How to Define Software-as-a-Service - An Empirical Study of Finnish SaaS Providers (2010)
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal)
