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Center for Activity Theory and Developmental Work Research
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Juha Tuunainen, Dr.Soc.Sc.
Email: juha.tuunainen@helsinki.fi
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My doctoral thesis focused on the trajectory of a Finnish agricultural plant-biotechnology research group and its transformation into a university start-up company. The main body of the thesis was composed of four research articles, each analyzing a distinctive phase in the group’s developmental trajectory. Using conceptual resources drawn from cultural-historical activity theory, ethnomethodology, symbolic interactionism and other traditions focusing on social studies of scientific practices I investigated the interaction between the group’s research and society in general. The specific themes investigated in the thesis were 1) the transformation of experimental systems used at the early stages of the group’s research, 2) the complex organizational ecology of disciplines in the university department where the biotechnology group operated and 3) the regulation of the emergent spin-off company at the university. Finally, I united the empirical results and criticized the Mode 2 knowledge production thesis and triple helix model of university-industry-government relations. Short BiographyI graduated in 1994 from the Faculty of Social Sciences at the University of Helsinki with sociology as my major. During my undergraduate studies, I worked for five years (1991-96) as a secretary for educational affairs both in the Student Union of Helsinki University and in the National Union of Finnish Students. While holding these positions I was closely involved with the administration of Finnish universities as well as the national higher education and science policy. After the administrative period, I worked at the Department of Sociology, University of Helsinki, before starting my PhD program at the Center of Activity Theory and Developmental Work Research in 1997. I defended my PhD thesis in sociology in August 2004. Currently, I am working as a resaerch co-ordinator at the Helsinki Institute of Science and Technology Studies while simultaneously being closely involved in research accomplished at the Center for the Activity Theory and Developmental Work Research. Documents
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