M.Sc. (Pol. Sci.) Mikkel Knudsen - UTU Research Portal

Mikkel Knudsen
M.Sc. (Pol. Sci.)

- Project Specialist,
Finland Futures Research Centre (FFRC) (Turku School of Economics)

mikkel.knudsen@utu.fi

+358 29 450 4653

+358 50 513 6636

Rehtorinpellonkatu 3

Turku

Office: 3.12

ORCID identifier: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0846-4005

Areas of expertise

Technology foresight; R&I foresight; research infrastructures; policy futures; Anticipatory Governance; Denmark; Itonics.

Research community or research topic

Member of the Futures Distillery (https://tulevaisuustislaamo.fi/).

Biography

I'm a project researcher in Futures Studies and doctoral researcher in Political Science. My main research interest and expertise lie at the intersections of the two fields, as well as in foresight, technology foresight, and sustainability.

2018-: Project Researcher, Finland Futures Research Centre, University of Turku

2010: M.Sc. (Political Science), University of Copenhagen, Denmark.

Research

Research projects:

2023-2025: GYROSCOPE (https://sites.utu.fi/gyroscope/). Academy of Finland, RRF funding.
2023-2025: T-Winning Spaces 2035 (https://t-winning-spaces2035.com/). Academy of Finland. RRF funding.
2022-2025: Strategic Foresight for Sustainability (https://www.sf4s-project.com/), Erasmus+, European Commission
2018-2023: Manufacturing 4.0 (www.mfg40.fi), Strategic Research Council at the Academy of Finland
2022: Foresight and Future Generations in Lawmaking (FORGE), VN TEAS
2021-2022: European Consumer Behaviour after COVID-19: A Foresight Study, DG Justice and Consumers, European Commission
2018-2021: Platforms for Big Data Foresight, Research Council of Lithuania
2017-2019: European Research Infrastructures in the International Landscape (RISCAPE) (Horizon 2020)
2016-2019: Saving Cooperative Energy (SCOoPE) (Horizon 2020).

Teaching

2022: Finland Futures Academy Summer School

2020-2021: Technology Foresight in Organizational Strategies (TSE, UTU)

2019: Finland Futures Academy Summer School

Publications

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Draft list of key international Research Infrastructures, selected methodologies and proposed aspects of complementarities to analyse in the energy sector, RISCAPE deliverable 6.1. (2017) Jari Kaivo-Oja, Mikkel Stein Knudsen
(D4 Published development or research report or study )
Lessons from European Energy Research and Energy RIs: Towards a European Science of Research Organizations? (2017) 10th Biennial International Workshop Advances in Energy Studies: Energy futures, environment and well-being Mikkel Knudsen, Jari Kaivo-oja
(B3 Non-refereed article in a conference publication)