Work and AI in Transformation for Systemic Opportunities in health care Networks

Project leader

Tuija Mainela, Professor of International Business. As the leader of the research project, she has created essential collaborations in the health care ecosystem in the Oulu area and internationally with respect to the researchers of public-private innovation. She is a well-established researcher of international entrepreneurship and business networks but has also done multidisciplinary research and is collaborating with health administration researchers.

Co-leader

Pia Hurmelinna-Laukkanen, Professor of Marketing. Her main research interests are innovation appropriability and appropriation, innovation management, innovation network orchestration, internationalization and innovation. As the co-leader of the project, she has created strong collaborations in the field of open innovation that will be a crucial basis for international data collection and collaborative analysis.

PIs

Juha Tuunainen, Professor of Management (organizational behaviour). His research has covered a range of research areas stretching from organizational sociology to science, technology and innovation studies, and higher education research.

Sari Laari-Salmela, Associate Professor. She is specialized in strategy processes and practices and brings to the research her expertise in the theoretical approaches of participation and meaningful work in management and organization studies to uncover processes of relational empowerment inside the health care organizations.

Jialei Yang, Assistant Professor. Her research interests include innovation management (especially innovation appropriability and open innovation) and network management. Her research addresses dynamics in value creation, value appropriation, and inter-organizational collaborations, set in contexts such as Artificial Intelligence (AI) and health care.

Anastasia Pojiltov

• Henry Chesbrough, UC Berkeley Haas School of Business
• Majbritt Rostgaard Evald, University of Southern Denmark
• Thomas Hoholm, BI Norwegian Business School
• Anu Kajamaa, University of Oulu
• Nina Lunkka, University of Eastern Finland
• Asta Pundziene, Kaunas University of Technology
• Hannu Torvinen, Oulu Business School
• Wim Vanhaverbeke, University of Antwerp

• Yang, J., Chesbrough, H., & Hurmelinna-Laukkanen, P. (2022). How to appropriate value from general-purpose technology? Applying open innovation in business strategies. California Management Review, 64(3), 24-48. https://doi.org/10.1177/00081256211041787
• Yang, J., & Hurmelinna-Laukkanen, P. (2022). Benefiting from innovation – Playing the appropriability cards. In R. Agarwal, E. Patterson, S. Pugalia, & G. Roy (Eds.), Innovation. Routledge, 310–331. https://doi.org/10.4324/9780429346033-20
• Yang, J., & Hurmelinna-Laukkanen, P. (2022). Evolving appropriability – Variation in the relevance of appropriability mechanisms across industries. Technovation, 118, 102593. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.technovation.2022.102593
• Alalääkkölä, T., Torvinen, H., Hurmelinna-Laukkanen, P. & Mainela, T. (2023). From value creation to value capture practices in healthcare innovation collaborations. Innovation: Organization & Management. https://doi.org/10.1080/14479338.2023.2232996
• Jansson, K. (2024). Organizational hybridity in a university hospital: a social systems theoretical perspective. [Doctoral dissertation, University of Oulu]. https://urn.fi/URN:NBN:fi:oulu-202403062128

• Pojiltov, A. (2022, 8-10 December). International Networks for Transformation of Health Care [Paper presentation]. EIBA 11th Danny Van Den Bulcke Doctoral Symposium. Oslo, Norway.
  • An earlier version (2022, 17 November) was presented at FIGSIB Doctoral Tutorial in International Business. Turku, Finland.
• Yang, J., Hurmelinna-Laukkanen, P., & Chesbrough, H. (2023). General-purpose technology’s value creation and appropriation – complementary asset bias, option value of openness, and profiting from innovation process. In 10th Annual World Open Innovation Conference. Bilbao, Spain. Accepted. (the Best Emerging Scholar Award).
  • An earlier version (2023) was presented at XXXIV ISPIM Innovation Conference. Ljubljana, Slovenia.
• Yang, J. (2023). Value of generativity and appropriation strategy toward outcomes: levels, causation, and dynamics. In ISPIM Connects Salzburg Conference. Salzburg, Austria.
• Pojiltov, A., & Mainela, T. (2023, 22-25 August). A cultural-historical approach to international networks for healthcare innovation [Paper presentation]. IMP 2023 conference. Manchester, UK.
• Yang, J. (2024). Interactive appropriability: Alignment, interaction, and conditions. In ISPIM Innovation Conference 2024. Tallinn, Estonia.
• Pundziene, A. ‪Hurmelinna‐Laukkanen, P., Yang, J., & Vanhaverbeke W. (2024). Platform foundational technology, data co-specialization and platform boundaries. A multiple-case study of medtech incumbent-born digital healthcare platforms. In 11th Annual World Open Innovation Conference. Berkeley, USA.
• Pojiltov, A., & Mainela, T. (2024, 28-30 August). Knowledge sharing episodes in an international innovation network [Paper presentation]. IMP 2024 conference. Oulu, Finland.

WATSON researchers reach out to different networks. One example of this is involvement in the Health & Innovation Special Interest Group (SIG) at the International Society for Professional Innovation Management (ISPIM). As stated on the SIG webpage, “the SIG brings together researchers, practitioners, consultants, and alike, to identify and share best practice on innovation management in health, and to create awareness of innovation management and adoption process in healthcare industry. The SIG aims to promote networking, knowledge sharing, and joint research and publication among experts in this context, and those interested in it.

Jialei Yang

• Wharton International Faculty Program (30.07.2024 - 02.08.2024)
• Scancor Scholar at Stanford University (01.04.2022 - 30.09.2022)