Tolga Karayel
tolkar@utu.fi |
Areas of expertise
Horizon Scanning, Foresight, Strategy & Technology Roadmapping, Innovation Policy Roadmapping, Policy Analysis, Entrepreneurial Foresight, Business Model Stress Testing, Corporate Foresight, Scenario Building, Smart City Digital Twins
Horizon Scanning, Foresight, Strategy & Technology Roadmapping, Innovation Policy Roadmapping, Policy Analysis, Entrepreneurial Foresight, Business Model Stress Testing, Corporate Foresight, Scenario Building, Smart City Digital Twins
Research community or research topic
Member of Futures Knowledge Distillery Research Group, University of Turku.
Member of Futures Knowledge Distillery Research Group, University of Turku.
Biography
Master’s degree in Futures Studies, University of Turku, Finland (2023)
Thesis on “Innovation Policy Roadmapping for the Future Finnish Smart City Digital Twins: Towards Finland National Digital Twin Programme”.
Bachelor’s degree in international Relations, Ege University, Izmir Turkiye (2013)
High Honours Degree (BA), State Scholarship, Academic Success Scholarship (Vehbi Koc Foundation, Turkiye), Full tuition fee scholarship, University of Turku.
Entrepreneurial Venture, Founder & CEO of Preloved Coffee, a start-up missioned upcycling spent coffee grounds into bio-materials.
Publications
- Leveraging Meta AI, Spatial AI, and Character AI Model for Generative Smart Cities (2025)
- Proceedings of the Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences
(A4 Refereed article in a conference publication ) - Climate Policies as a Soft-Power in Carbon-Based New World Paradigm:
Planet-as-a-Service, a Holistic Framework for Global Decarbonization
(2024) Karayel, Tolga
Aydoğan, Doga
Menase, Cem L.
Sönmez, Egem
(D4 Published development or research report or study ) - Exploring Smart City Digital Twins: From distinct concepts towards integrated socio-technical applications (2024) Karayel, Tolga; Kaivo-oja, Jari; Villman, Tero; Pouru-Mikkola, Laura; Lindholm, Michael; Immonen, Eero
(D4 Published development or research report or study ) - Innovation policy roadmapping on exploring resilient urban futures via digital twins (2024) Futures of Natural Resources Book of Abstracts Karayel, Tolga
(Abstract) - Smart city wheel: A holistic analytical framework on exploring urban futures
(Conference abstract: the 24th Futures Conference 2024)
(2024) Futures of Natural Resources: Book of Abstracts Karayel, Tolga; Kaivo-oja, Jari; Villman, Tero
(Abstract) - Innovation Policy Roadmapping for the Future Finnish Smart City Digital Twins : Towards Finland National Digital Twin Programme (2023) Karayel Tolga
(G2 Master’s thesis, polytechnic Master’s thesis) - 22nd Futures Conference: Book of Abstracts. Planetary Futetres of Health and Wellbeing 15-17 June 2022 (2022) Zimmer Anna, Karayel Tolga, Saarimaa Riikka
(C2 Editorial work for a scientific compilation book)
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