The research team of Sustainable Industrial Renewal & Innovations at LUT School of Business and Management have built years of experience in innovation management, product lifecycle management (PLM), requirements management, open innovation and topics related to Industrial Internet and business informatics. Research is evidenced by the extensive publication list and the project portfolio in both national and European contexts, and close co-operation with manufacturing, engineering and construction industry. Read more: http://www.lut.fi/web/en/research/platforms/sim/research-groups/sustainable-industrial-renewal-innovations

1. LUT SCHOOL
OF BUSINESS
AND MANAGEMENT
Show the way. Never follow.

2. LBM MISSION
We educate research-based problem solvers in the
fields of business, industrial management and
software engineering.
We do this by creating and sharing business relevant
knowledge for the benefit of students, businesses,
academic community and society at large.
LUT School of Business and Management (LBM)

3. Sustainable Industrial
Renewal & Innovations – SIRI
LUT School of Business & Management | Innovation & Software

4. SIRI RESEARCH TEAM – a part of SIM platform
 SIRI RESEARCH TEAM
 10 researchers
 Close co-operation & co-joint
research activities with several
research teams
 Multidisciplinary research
approach SIM REFLEX A-Z
SIRI
LUT School of Business and Management | Innovation & Software

5. INDUSTRIAL
COLLABORATION
RESEARCH APPROACHES
INTERNATIONAL RESEARH &
CONNECTIONS
30-year track record on evolving innovation management in a
co-operation with manufacturing and service industries
Mixed methods, Constructive Research, New approaches of
Decision and Design Sciences, Grounded Theory, Case & Action
research
World-class research & projects in close collaboration with
industry & academic partners in EU and across the globe.
BUSINESS & VALUE
PERSPECTIVES
Business oriented approach – in the core of the research
Sustainable Industrial Renewal & Innovations
– SIRI research team
LUT School of Business and Management | Innovation & Software
Close co-operation & joint research activities with
research teams at LUT and beyond
INNOVATION MANAGEMENT
RESEARCH & TEACHING

6. RESEARCH THEMES & INTEREST AREAS
RENEWAL
BUSINESS MODELS
SIMULATION
DIGITALIZATION
SUSTAINABILITY VALUE
INDUSTRIAL
ECOSYSTEMS &
PLATFORMS
INDUSTRIAL
SERVICES
INNOVATION &
STRATEGIC
MANAGEMENT
CO-OPERATION &
PARTNERSHIPS
PRODUCT LIFE-CYCLE
MANAGEMENT

7. LUT INNOVATION MANAGEMENT RESEARCH -
30 YEARS (R)EVOLUTION
Systemic technology- and
service innovations
Close industrial, EU and
international collaboration
”Era of continuous
organizational changes”
Integrating new areas to
Innovation and Technology
Management:
Knowledge Management,
Product Lifecycle Management,
Open Innovation, Business
Models, IPR, Service Innovation
Increased external funding
Creating foundation for
Management of Technology
(MOT) research:
Focus on NPD, ”Front End of
Innovation”, Group decision
support systems
2010’S SUSTAINABILITY
AND INNOVATIONS
2000’S INTEGRATED
APPROACH
1990´S: MOT TEAM
ESTABLISHED
2020:
INDUSTRIAL
ECOSYSTEMS

8. SIRI - Research Team at a glance
Dr. Lea
Hannola
Dr. Ville
Ojanen
Dr. Kalle
Elfvengren
Dr. Antero
Kutvonen
Dr. Kirsi
Kokkonen
M.Sc.
Nina Tura
M.Sc. Sari
Laitinen
M.Sc.
Niko
Lipiäinen
Senior
Lecturer/PM
Jorma
Papinniemi
B.Sc.
Mario
Verdugo

9. Sustainable Industrial Renewal & Innovations
– SIRI research team
LUT School of Business & Management | Innovation & Software
“Value through service innovations”
Ville Ojanen
“Better solutions with collaborative and
creative problem solving”
Kalle Elfvengren
“EU expertise in open innovation
atmosphere” Antero Kutvonen
“Creating business value by sharing product related
data and information through lifecycle”
Jorma Papinniemi
“Business models & value of
sustainable innovations ”
Nina Tura
“Expertise on industrial services & collaboration based
industrial networks” Sari Laitinen
“Managing value
assessment”
Niko Lipiäinen
“User and customer driven innovations
and smart factories” Lea Hannola
“Product lifecycle value creation by IoT”
Mario Verdugo

10. Research projects

11. Worker-centric Workplaces
in Smart Factories
• Started 1.12.2014, duration 4 years
• Develop a worker-centric solution to
integrate knowledge work to the shop
floor
• Solution will be tested across 4 real
production environments in EU
• LUT team handles organizational needs,
requirements and knowledge
management, and validation of the
solutions
• Impact on work satisfaction, productivity,
employment
»This project has received funding from the European Union's
Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under Grant
Agreement n˚ 636778.« FACTS4WORKERS website: http://facts4workers.eu/

12. Fimecc / MANU / ProMaGNet
 Duration: 2012 – 2017. Total Volume: 35m€
 Participants:
 7 Manufacturing and IT & consultancy companies
 4 research organizations: LUT, VTT, TUT, TuAMK
LUT: Industrial Management and Mechanical Engineering
 MANU programme: Manufacturing global competitiveness
via digitalization & product knowlegde management
 ProMaGNet (P3) research project: Product Knowledge
Management in Global Manufacturing and Supply Networks
 LUT research topics: Business-oriented approach; Product
Lifecycle Management (PLM); identifying evolving business
requirements and PLM enabled business models, e.g.
performance-based lifecycle services. Location independent
manufacturing (LIM).

13. This project has received funding from the european union's horizon 2020 research and innovation programme
under grant agreement n˚ 635885
DOOR TO DOOR INFORMATION
FOR AIR PASSENGERS
Started 1.6.2015, duration 3 years
Plan, route, assist and guide passenger
from door to door in Europe to cut total
travel times by 20%
Participants: 14 EU partners from
Germany, Spain, Greece, Finland including
2 testing environment cities: Berlin and
Palma de Mallorca and corresponding
airports
LUT research topics: Cooperation &
Business model frameworks, Project result
dissemination management
Dora website: https://dora-project.eu/

14. FiDiPro programme
SYSTEMATIC CREATIVITY DEVELOPMENT
FOR NEW PRODUCT CREATION IN GREEN ENERGY
• Duration 3 years (spring 2014 – spring 2017)
• Funders: TEKES FiDiPro, Konecranes, ABB and Innotiimi
• 4 person researcher team, total budget 1 250 000 €
• Project target: Develop systematic invention methods (such TRIZ) and
innovations to green energy sector

15. Strategic business models and
governance for sustainable
solutions (12/2013 - 02/2016)
Part of Tekes GreenGrowth programm
Total Volume: 900 000€/ IS
Project focused on service concepts and business
models, which support the development of new
business based on sustainable production, and energy
and material efficiency.
Perspectives:
1) Strategy
2) Asset management
3) Life cycle
4) Networks & value
LUT research topics: Measurement and optimization of
sustainability value