Participants

Helsinki School of Economics

E-mail: markku.anttonen (at) hse.fi

I am a PhD student as well as a Project Researcher in Helsinki School of Economics, Finland. Since joining the HSE faculty 2002, I have worked in various projects on the business models for eco-efficient and sustainable services both at the household and business-to-business sectors. Before returning to the world of academic research, I developed new services in Statistics Finland and worked as a corporate environmental management consultant. My background is in environmental policy studies and planning geography.

In my thesis I study existing material efficiency services and their business-models as organizational innovations. I concentrate mainly on different services for managing chemicals, but I also look other materials efficiency services. I try to analyze in what way these services rearrange and perhaps redefine the relationships, tasks and responsibilities between suppliers and customers, and what is their relation to the discourses and rhetoric’s of eco-innovations and new business development. The thesis is based on the work done in the HSE research projects. As part of studying eco-efficient services I’m also interested in social innovations, social networks and enterprises and the sustainability issues in public procurement.

Outside of academics I’m a co-parenting football and floorball (hallenhockey) dad. The remaining free time that’s left I practice tango and yoga. I also enjoy taking photographs, hiking in nature, cycling and sailing.

I’m very much looking forward this summer academy.