Tommi Inkinen
Professor, Vice Dean of the Faculty of Science
toalin@utu.fi +358 29 450 2066 +358 50 313 0689 Vesilinnantie 5 Turku |
Economic Geography, Maritime Transport, Urban and Regional Studies
Tommi Inkinen is a Professor of Economic Geography at the University of Turku (UTU), Finland. He is also the Vice Dean of education in the Faculty of Science of UTU 2025–2029. Previously he was a Professor of Economic Geography (2012–2016) and an acting Professor of Human Geography (2008–2012) at the University of Helsinki (UH). In 2014 he was the Vice Head of the Department of Geosciences and Geography at the UH. After Helsinki, he worked as a Research Director and the Vice Director at the Brahea Centre of UTU (2016–2020). Prof. Inkinen holds a title of Docent (Adjunct Professor) of Regional Studies in UH. His research interests primarily cover issues of innovation geography, urban technology, maritime studies, and industrial systems. These include the regional and social structuring of innovation systems, technology integration, regional development and logistics of transport. His books include Geographies of Disruption (with Tan Yigitcanlar) by Springer (2019); and Smart Cities and Innovative Urban Technologies by Routledge (2021) and Sustainable Mobility and Transport (2022) by MDPI (both edited with Tan Yigitcanlar and Mark Wilson). Inkinen was a chairperson of the International Geographical Union’s (IGU) Innovation, Information and Technology Commission 2016–2024. In 2022–2024, he was a member of the Research Council for Culture and Society of the Research Council of Finland (formerly Academy of Finland). Inkinen is currently an associate editor of the journal Sustainable Cities and Society (by Elsevier) and earlier he was the Editor-In-Chief (2010-2013) of a peer-reviewed quarterly national journal Terra, Finnish Geographical Journal. He is also an editorial board member in several international journals dedicated to geographies of economy, innovation, and technology.
Recent and forthcoming publications
Inkinen, T. (2025/2026, accepted). Media and Digitalization in Spatially Divergent Islands: Representing Archipelago Nature, Remoteness and Tourism Economy. In (eds.). Lukinbeal, C. & S. Brunn: Geography and Media Turns: Sciences and Arts, Visible and Invisible, Personal to Global. Springer, Cham.
Inkinen, T. (2025). Autonomous transformations in urban mobility: A foreword. In Autonomous Urban Mobility: Understanding Adoption Parameters, Perceptions, Perspectives by Tan Yigitcanlar. CRC Press, Boca Raton.
Makkonen, T., Lehtonen, O., Inkinen, T., Vihinen, H. & O. Voutilainen (2025). Socio-economic impacts of different categories of state expenditure in urban and rural regions. Regional Studies. https://doi.org/10.1080/00343404.2025.2495323
Associate editorships in journals:
Sustainable Cities and Society (Elsevier)
Selected editorial board memberships in journals:
Journal of Open Innovation (Elsevier);
Journal of Urban Technology (Routledge);
Sustainable Horizons (Elsevier);
Terra. Finnish Geographical Journal (TSV)
- Information technology, communication and networking in software companies of northern Finland (2008)
- International Journal of Knowledge Management Studies
- Solutions for Wireless City Networks in Finland (2008) Encyclopedia of Information Science and Technology Inkinen T, Jauhiainen JS
- Solutions for wireless city networks in Finland (2008) Encyclopedia of Information Science and Technology. Second edition Tommi Inkinen, Jussi Jauhiainen
- Spatial and regional development in Northern Europe (2007) Inkinen T, Schmidt-Thomé K
- Technology and knowledge-based development. Helsinki metropolitan area as a creative region. Pathways to creative knowledge-based regions (2007) Inkinen T, Vaattovaara M
- Technology foresight in scalar innovation systems: a spatiotemporal process perspective (2007)
- Fennia : International Journal of Geography
- Water time and European cities: History matters for the future (2007)
- Journal of Urban Technology
- A territorial perspective on the information society (2006) Positioning Finland in a European Space Frank L, Hirvonen T, Inkinen T
- Public authorities and the local information society (2006) Encyclopedia of Digital Government Inkinen T, Jauhiainen JS
- Suomen ja Venäjän välinen kuljetuslogistiikka. Yrityshaastattelut. (2006) Ruutikainen T, Inkinen T, Tapaninen U
- The social construction of the urban use of information technology: The case of Tampere, Finland (2006)
- Journal of Urban Technology
- European coherence and regional policy? A Finnish perspective on the observed and reported territorial impacts of EU research and development policies (2005)
- European Planning Studies
- Johdattava polku lasten tietoyhteiskuntaan (2005) Lapsuus mediamaailmassa Inkinen T
- Lapsuus mediamaailmassa (2005) Lahikainen AR, Hietala P, Inkinen T, Kangassalo M, Kivimäki R, Mäyrä F
- Social uses of information and communication technologies (2005) e-City: Analyzing the Efforts to Generate Local Dynamism in the City of Tampere Inkinen T
- Tietoyhteiskunta 2004. Sitä saa, mitä tilaa – mutta voisiko teoriasta olla kerran opiksikin (2005) Matikkala U, Inkinen T
- Tietoyhteiskunta: myytit ja todellisuus (2005) Kasvio A, Inkinen T, Liikala H
- Tulevaisuus ja lasten mediamaailma (2005) Lapsuus mediamaailmassa Lahikainen A, Hietala P, Inkinen T, Kangassalo M, Kivimäki R, Mäyrä F
- Aluekehityksen muutossuuntia lähitulevaisuuden tietoyhteiskunnassa (2004)
- Futura
- Innovaatio, alueellisuus ja talousmaantiede–esimerkkinä Turun teknologiapuisto (2004)
- Alue ja ympäristö
