Aki Koponen
D.Sc. (Economics & Business Administration)
aki.koponen@utu.fi +358 29 450 2357 +358 50 524 6239 Rehtorinpellonkatu 3 Turku |
Industry dynamics; Economics of competition policy; Business model innovations; Player analytics; Banking; Nutrition economics; commercialising research innovations
I work as a research director (professor level position, field: Business Renewal) at the Centre for Collaborative Research and Laboratory of Business Disruption Research at Turku School of Economics, University of Turku. Since 2004 some 50 multidisciplinary research, development and consulting projects have been completed under my direction. I have also acted as an expert member of Finnish Market Court. Besides academic activities I am a co-founder of an AI startup. I am also a happy married father, who loves gaming, ska punk and freeskiing.
At the beginning of my academic career my research focused on economics of banking, economic analysis of market competitiveness, competition neutrality, effects of new legislation and regulation on competitiveness, competition in service industries, and market-based solutions for health care services. More recently the research focused on innovation activity, industry dynamics and strategic renewal of companies, as well as regional development. Since 2014 topics has included also digital gaming (esp. market development, business models, entertaining games in health care and wellbeing), data analytics and business disruptions.
- But can it drive to Lapland? A comparison of electric vehicle owners with the general population for identification of attitudes, concerns and barriers related to electric vehicle adoption in Finland (2024)
- PLOS Climate
- Elävä kaupunki hengittää sekä pelejä että leikkejä, mutta niihin suhtautuminen jakaa kaupunkilaisia (2024) Ratala, Onni; Kirveennummi, Anna; Koponen, Aki; Sihvonen, Lilli; Vahlo, Jukka; Suominen, Jaakko
- Nutrition Economics : Adding Value to Fermented Foods and Biotics (2024) Lactic Acid Bacteria : Microbiological and Functional Aspects Lenoir-Wijnkoop, Irene; Koponen, Aki; Salminen, Seppo
- Taiteilijat inspiroivat luovaa vuorovaikutusta tiedepuistossa (2023) Oinas Päivi, Gómez Lucía, Poutanen Jenni, Koponen Aki, Lehtovuori Panu, Vahlo Jukka
- Designing prototype player personas from a game preference survey
(Extended Abstract) (2020) CHI EA '20: Extended Abstracts of the 2020 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems Joni Salminen, Jukka Vahlo, Aki Koponen, Soon-gyo Jung, Shammur A. Chowdhury, Bernard J. Jansen - Developing Prototype Player Personas from Game Preferences
(Presentation at the ACM Woodstock conference (WOODSTOCK’18)) (2020) Proceedings of ACM Woodstock conference (WOODSTOCK’18). ACM, New York, NY, USA, 2 pages Joni Salminen, Jukka Vahlo, Aki Koponen, Soon gyo Jung, Bernard J. Jansen - Driven, Imaginative, and Casual Game Experiences (2020) Game User Experience and Player-Centered Design Jukka Vahlo, Aki Koponen
- Guidelines on How to implement MaaS in Local Contexts (2020) Stella Aaltonen, Milla Wiren, Aki Koponen, Helber Y. López Covaleda, Nuppu Ervasti, Nuria Blanco, Christian Grundmann, Helene Carlsson, Nikolay Simeonov, Ruth Schawohl
- Horizontal information exchange and innovation in the platform economy – a need to rethink? (2019)
- European Competition Journal
- Internationally scalable business from digitality
Final report 2019 (2019) Elisa Aro, Taina Eriksson, Antero Hirvensalo, Aki Koponen, Tommi Rissanen, Lasse Torkkeli - Digital Gaming for Improving the Functioning of People With Traumatic Brain Injury: Randomized Clinical Feasibility Study (2018)
- Journal of Medical Internet Research
- Elinvoimaa puutarhasektorin uudistumiseen ja kasvuun : Voimakas-hankkeen (2015–2017) tulokset, johtopäätökset ja toimenpide-ehdotukset (2018) Taina Eriksson, Hilkka Halla, Kari Jokinen, Leena Jokinen, Helka Kalliomäki, Saila Karhu, Anu Koivisto, Aki Koponen, Tiina Mattila, Riikka Saarimaa, Terhi Suojala-Ahlfors, Liisa Särkkä, Vilja Varho
- Player Personas and Game Choice (2018) Encyclopedia of Computer Graphics and Games Jukka Vahlo, Aki Koponen
- Tasavallan core-gamer: Videopelaamisen piirteet Suomessa, Kanadassa ja Japanissa (2018)
- Pelitutkimuksen Vuosikirja
- Validating Gameplay Activity Inventory (GAIN) for Modeling Player Profiles (2018)
- User Modeling and User-Adapted Interaction
- Digital Game Dynamics Preferences and Player Types (2017)
- Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication
- Puutarha-alan kilpailukyky syntyy yrittäjien osaamisesta (2017) Eriksson Taina, Kalliomäki Helka, Koponen Aki
- Digital Gaming for Improving the Functioning of People With Traumatic Brain Injury: Protocol of a Feasibility Study (2016)
- JMIR Research Protocols
- Esitutkimus: Tietoon perustuva päätöksenteko Pohjoisella kasvuvyöhykkeellä (2016) Anu Kotilainen, Ville Santala, Ville Helminen, Helka Kalliomäki, Jani Sainio, Aki Koponen
- Digitaalinen pelaaminen työhyvinvoinnin edistämisessä (2015) Jukka Vahlo, Johanna Ollila, Aki Koponen
