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 PolicyAMBIO: A Journal of the Human Environment
(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)
(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)
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