Anne Erkkilä-Välimäki
PhD
anne.erkkila-valimaki@utu.fi +358 40 592 4931 Pohjoisranta 11 D Pori ORCID identifier: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1473-4999 |
Areas of expertise
Governance dilemmas in multi-actor environments; collaborative planning and participatory planning methods; business preparedness for and adaptation to climate change; coastal and marine regional development; maritime spatial planning; sustainable blue growth
Governance dilemmas in multi-actor environments; collaborative planning and participatory planning methods; business preparedness for and adaptation to climate change; coastal and marine regional development; maritime spatial planning; sustainable blue growth
Research community or research topic
Turku School of Economics, Pori Unit: LEADS-group
Turku School of Economics, Pori Unit: LEADS-group
Biography
Research
Examples of recent R&D projects:
- VIISAAT: Strong climate resilience, innovative adaptation and adaptive action (9/2025-5/2028)
- DT-VARMA: Developing Corporate Security of Supply and Resilience (10/2025–9/2027)
- SaMBa: Satakunta Metaversum for Business, strengthen cooperation between TSE Pori and companies regarding studies (10/2025-7/2026)
- Sitra x InnoCities 2025: The Fostering Corporate Growth Through Smart Business Practices (Pori project)
- ProDigy: Sustainable competitiveness for Satakunta with productivity and digitalization (2023-2025)
- SATA-VASTUU: Creation of a sustainability metrics for the food cluster value network in Satakunta (2024)
- BlueCleanDigi - Boosting the leap of Satakunta's blue businesses to carbon neutral and more digital business operations (9/2021-8/2023)
- MERICLEANTECH - Developing clean shipping innovations in Satakunta (4/2021-9/2023)
- GET READY: Getting Ready for the Cross-Border Challenges: Capacity Building in Sustainable Shore Use (5/2019-4/2022)
- BONUS BASMATI - Baltic Sea Maritime Spatial Planning for Sustainable Ecosystem Services (7/2017-6/2020)
- Blue growth innovation platform of Satakunta (2/2018-12/2019)
- PLAN4BLUE - Maritime Spatial Planning for Sustainable Blue Economies (10/2016-9/2019)
Publications 
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- Älykkäällä liiketoiminnalla kasvua yrityksiin – Porin Innokaupungin TKI-yhteistyön näkymiä (2025) Erkkilä-Välimäki, Anne; Kiljunen, Kati; Puputti, Mikko; Heino, Teemu; Kuoppakangas, Päivikki.
(D4 Published development or research report or study ) - Tuottavuudella ja digitalisaatiolla kestävää kilpailukykyä (2025) Kaivo-oja, Jari; Vehmas, Jarmo; Erkkilä-Välimäki, Anne; Lakkala, Hanna; Heikkinen, Jani; Kuoppakangas, Päivikki; Kamal, Rida
(D4 Published development or research report or study ) - MariParkeista etsitään ratkaisua merialueiden tehokkaampaan hyödyntämiseen (2023)
- Säikeitä
(E1 Popularised article) - Best practices for sustainable spatial planning in the marine and coastal areas of the Eastern Gulf of Finland (2022) Erkkilä-Välimäki Anne, Shilin Mikhail, Kontio Panu, Gogoberidze Georgy, Kostamo Kirsi, Nazarova Alina, Zhigulsky Vladimir, Varjopuro Riku, Nyroos Sari
(Other publication) - Coastal fishery stakeholders’ perceptions, motivation, and trust regarding maritime spatial planning and regional development: The case in the Bothnian Sea of the northern Baltic Sea (2022)
- Marine Policy
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Assessing the costs and environmental benefits of IMO regulations of ship-originated SOx and NOx emissions in the Baltic Sea (2021)
- AMBIO: A Journal of the Human Environment
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Business sector involvement in maritime spatial planning – Experiences from the Baltic Sea region (2021)
- Marine Policy
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Kalatalouden asemaa osana sinistä kasvua tulee vahvistaa (2021) Anne Erkkilä-Välimäki
(Other publication) - Merialuesuunnittelu voi tukea kestävää kehitystä itäisellä Suomenlahdella (2021)
- Maalta ja mereltä: Brahea-keskuksen blogi
(E1 Popularised article) - Satakunnan merialuesuunnittelua ja kalatalouden osallistumisen tutkimusta (2021)
- Säikeitä
(E1 Popularised article) - Satakunnan sinisen kasvun innovaatioalusta (2020) Jenny Katila, Anne Erkkilä-Välimäki, Minna Alhosalo, Riitta Pöntynen
(D4 Published development or research report or study ) - Clean Shipping: Exploring the impact of emission regulation (2019) Sari Repka, Johan Mellqvist,Tadeusz Borkowski, Jukka-Pekka Jalkanen, Jan Eiof Jonson, Lars
Barregard, Eunice Olaniyi, Gunnar Klaus Prause, Michael Gauss, Jari Walden, Erik Svensson,
Eugene Genikhovich, Denis Rumyantzev, Jan Boyesen, Christian Wenske, Thaysa Portela de
Carvalho, Anu Lähteenmäki-Uutela, Lasse Johansson, Vladimir Conde, Anne Erkkilä-Välimäki,
Johanna Yliskylä-Peuralahti, Karri Saarnio, Alexey Bakhtov, Svetlana Tochanskaya, Maximilian
Bosch,Teemu Haukioja, Janne Törrönen, Ari Karppinen, Jörg Beecken, Minna Alhosalo, Jaroslaw
Myskow, Przemyslaw Kowalak, Erik Bäck, Hung Nguyen, Peter Molnar, Leo Stockfelt, Sina Atari,
Yassine Bakkar
(D4 Published development or research report or study ) - From silent knowledge to spatial information – Mapping blue growth scenarios for maritime spatial planning (2019)
- Marine Policy
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Guide for cross-border spatial data analysis in Maritime Spatial Planning (2019) Nylén Tua, Tolvanen Harri, Erkkilä-Välimäki Anne, Roose Meeli
(D4 Published development or research report or study ) - Blue growth - drivers and alternative scenarios for the Gulf of Finland and the Archipelago sea. Qualitative analysis based on expert opinions (2018) Riitta Pöntynen, Anne Erkkilä-Välimäki
(D4 Published development or research report or study ) - BONUS BASMATI Specifications for case study designs. Deliverable 6.2 (2018) Solvita Strāķe, Juris Aigars, Maija Viška, Kristīne Pakalniete, Ingrīda Puriņa, Miriam von Thenen, Kerstin Schiele, Hanna Luhtala, Anne Erkkilä-Välimäki, Harri Tolvanen, Christian Koski
(D4 Published development or research report or study ) - BONUS BASMATI Thematic Scoping/Vision Document: report outlining the main conflict and potential synergy areas in crossborder MSP. Deliverable 2.2 (2018) Alberto Giacometti, Michael Kull, John R. Moodie, Andrea Morf, Berit C. Kaae, Kerstin Schiele, Miriam von Thenen, Ida Maria Reiter, Lise Schröder, Henning Sten Hansen, Karsten Dahl, Hanna Luhtala, Anne Erkkilä-Välimäki, Aurelija Armoskaite, Solvita Strāķe
(D4 Published development or research report or study ) - Main Drivers for Maritime Cluster and Shipping in the Baltic Sea (2018)
- SHS Web of Conferences
(A4 Refereed article in a conference publication ) - Plan4Blue Scenarios for Blue Growth: Qualitative analysis based on expert opinions (2018) Riitta Pöntynen, Anne Erkkilä-Välimäki, Tua Nylén, Riku Varjopuro, Hanna Nieminen, Anu Lähteenmäki-Uutela, Tuomas Pohjola, Hanna Uusitalo, Janne Törrönen, Merle Kuris, Harri Tolvanen, Anneliis Peterson, Leena Laamanen
(D4 Published development or research report or study ) - BONUS BASMATI Communication and dissemination plan. Deliverable 7.1 (2017) Anne Erkkilä-Välimäki, Hanna Luhtala, Harri Tolvanen
(Other publication)
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