Jari Kaivo-oja
Research Director, Dr, Adjunct Professor
jari.kaivo-oja@utu.fi +358 41 753 0244 Hämeenkatu 15 B 11 Tampere Office: 4 th Floor ORCID identifier: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2401-6299 |
Research Director, Special areas, global and European research collaboration, foresight tools, integrated innovation research tools and methods, business foresight tools, international economics, sustainability analyses, knowledge management in organizations, technology foresight, examinations of higher education degrees in the field of foresight and innovation
Research topics: Foresight and futures research, innovation management, business models, sustainablity science etc.
Adjunct Professor, (Faculty of Sciences, University of Helsinki, Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Lapland, Faculty of Technology and Innovation, University of Vaasa), Research Director Jari Kaivo-oja is an expert working in the fields of business and technology foresight, planning sciences, innovation research, and sustainability science. His special fields are foresight methodologies in sustainability analyses, international energy economics, and trends and megatrends of general societal development. He has special expertise in energy economics, innovation research, climate change analyses, organisational knowledge management tools, and geopolitical security politics analyses. Jari Kaivo-oja has research experience in strategic and participatory foresight processes in Europa and in international contexts (especially in Africa, in the Middle East (The Middle East Foresight), in Black Sea Region (The Middle East Foresight and Black Sea Peace Building Foresight) and in Asia (3 years in the Lao PDR and in the Mekong River research program).
He has worked in the European FP6, FP7, and FP 8 (Horizon 2020) research programs collaborating with various European universities. He has been an expert evaluator of EU´s Security Programmes and other programs. He has worked as a Finnish national co-ordinator in the COST A22 (Foresight methodologies) and as an expert member of the international think tank of the European Sustainability Strategy Theme Network. He has worked for the European Foundations (Dublin), for the Eurostat, for the European Parliament (Brussels), as well as for the Nordic Innovation Centre (NIC, Oslo).
In Finland, he has been a researcher in research projects at the Academy of Finland, the VTT (Technical Research Centre of Finland), the Finnish Technology and Innovation Fund TEKES (now Business Finland), and various line ministries. He has experience as a scientific project evaluator in the Security Research Programmes of the European Union. He has been over 2 years a foresight expert blog writer for the SITRA (the Finnish Innovation Fund). He has been lecturing for the European Science Foundation (ESF), for the Russian Academy of Sciences (RAS), and for the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences (CASS). In 2011 he was visiting scholar at Stanford University (Palo Alto, CA).
In 2019-2021, Dr Jari Kaivo-oja was the Principal Investigator (PI) of the Smart Specialization Strategy Tools with Big Data (SSST-BD) in the EXCELLENT SCIENCE - Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions program. Since December 2018 Dr Kaivo-oja was Research Professor and since June 2021 Dr Kaivo-oja has been Professor Atestatas (Social sciences) at the Kazimieras Simonavicius University (KSU). He has participated in many EU Erasmus training and capacity-building projects in Southeast Asia, especially in Laos, Cambodia, and Myanmar. Dr Jari Kaivo-oja has been planning and implementing 8 large EU Research projects. In 2018-2023, he was a researcher at the Strategic Research Council of the Academy of Finland in the EL-TRAN and in the Manufacturing 4.0 projects. Jari Kaivo-oja is one of the most cited Finnish future researchers in international peer-reviewed academic journals.
Futures studies, foresight research, foresight methods, innovation management, technology foresight research, energy economics, energy policy, climate change, management, security policy research, planning sciences, digital futures, cyber-security, disruptive business models, VUCA foresight tools, change management tools, Big Data foresight analysis, Integrated data lake analyses
My teaching is linked to Future Focus services and tailored foresight and innovation workshops. Co-operation with Futures Platform Ltd. and Statzon.
- Ennakointikyvykkyys ja Trump (2016)
- Vaihtoehtojen Suomi
(E1 Popularised article) - Future prospects for knowledge management in the field of health (2016) KMO '16 Proceedings of the The 11th International Knowledge Management in Organizations Conference on The changing face of Knowledge Management Impacting Society Jari Kaivo-oja, Petri Virtanen, Harri Jalonen, Jari Stenvall, Johan Wallin
(A4 Refereed article in a conference publication ) - Futures of European welfare models and policies – Seeking actual research questions, and new problem-solving arsenal for European welfare states (2016)
- European Journal of Futures Research
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Futures of Innovation Systems and Innovation Management: Open Innovation Paradigm Analysed from Futures Perspective (2016) Open Innovation: Bridging Theory and Practice Jari Kaivo-oja, Teemu Santonen
(A3 Refereed book chapter or chapter in a compilation book) - How to Support and Develop the Innovation-oriented Entrepreneurship in Turbulent VUCA conditions
(Esitys 2016 Tangerang Selatan Global Innovation Forum with 10th WTA General Assembly -konferensissa, 20.-23.2016, Tangerang Selatan, Banten Province, Indonesia) (2016) Ilkka Kakko, Jari Kaivo-oja, Kari Mikkelä
(Other publication) - Is the future a political economy? Functional analysis of three leading foresight and futures studies journals. In Special Issue "Modelling and Simulation in Futures Studies" (2016)
- Futures
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Laatumaa Oyn pitkän aikavälin strategiset haasteet ja uudistuvat toimintatavat (2016) Jari Kaivo-oja
(D4 Published development or research report or study ) - Management and function: A research agenda on the next key factors in business research
(Esitys EURAM 2016 Conferencessa, 1.-4.6. 2016, Paris) (2016) Steffen Roth, Augusto Sales, Jari Kaivo-oja
(Other publication) - Moderni korporaatio- ja yritysennakointitoiminta ja ennakoivan VUCA-johtamisen haasteet: Epävakaus, epävarmuus, kompleksisuus ja monimerkityksellisyys (2016)
- Tulevaisuuden tutkimuskeskuksen blogi
(E1 Popularised article) - STI Priority Setting in the EU Countries and the Russian Federation: Best Practices (2016) Anna Grebenyuk, Anna Pikalova, Alexander Sokolov, Sergey Shashnov, Jari Kaivo-oja
(C1 Refereed scientific book) - Strong Prospective Trends in the Arctic and Future Opportunities in Logistics (2016)
- Polar Geography
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Suomi – itsensä toteuttamisen yhteiskunnan tuleva globaali innovaatiolaboratorio? (2016)
- Kansallinen Ennakointiverkosto
(E1 Popularised article) - Sustainability Cycles in China, India, and the World? (2016)
- Eastern European Business and Economics Journal
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Synergies and Trade-offs Between Energy Efficiency and Sustainability Indicators: The EU-28 Study of Sustainable Energy Use (2016) Jari Kaivo-oja, Jyrki Luukkanen, Jarmo Vehmas
(D4 Published development or research report or study ) - Tammikuun tehopiikki – mitä tapahtui 7.1.2016? Miten tehoa hallitaan paremmin jatkossa? (2016) Juhani Heljo, Pirkko Harsia, Hannele Holttinen, Pami Aalto, Tomas Björkqvist, Pertti Järventausta,a Jari Kaivo-oja, Matti Kojo, Timo Korpela, Antti Rautiainen, Sami Repo,Ilkka Ruostetsaari, Jaakko Sorri
(D4 Published development or research report or study ) - Teknologinen murros terveydenhuollossa (2016) Teknologia sosiaali- ja terveydenhuollossa. Hoitotyön vuosikirja 2016 Jari Kaivo-oja
(A3 Refereed book chapter or chapter in a compilation book) - TINA-ajattelun riskit ja turmiollisuus (2016)
- Vaihtoehtojen Suomi
(E1 Popularised article) - Toimintamalli radikaalien innovaatioiden toteuttamiseksi: Toimintamallin ytimen selkomäärittely (2016)
- Intellectual Transit Zone
(E1 Popularised article) - Trend analysis of energy and climate policy environment – Comparative electricity production and consumption benchmark analyses of China, Euro area, European Union, and United States (2016)
- Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews
(A2 Refereed review article in a scientific journal ) - Trendianalyysi Suomen pörssissä toimivista yrityksistä (2016)
- Futura
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal)