Helsinki School of Economics as a part of the new Aalto University
Aalto University is a newly created university from the merger of three Finnish universities: the Helsinki School of Economics, the University of Art and Design Helsinki and Helsinki University of Technology – all leading and renowned institutions in their respective fields and in their own right.
Aalto University is dedicated to high-standard research and education with the aim of promoting well-being and quality of life. Interacting closely with the surrounding society, Aalto University wants to focus on practices that have already proven fruitful, while continuously developing new ways of working and sharing our expertise.
About Center for Knowledge and Innovation Research (CKIR)
The Center for Knowledge and Innovation Research (CKIR), founded in 1999, is an international and multidisciplinary research centre at the Aalto University School of Economics, formerly Helsinki School of Economics (HSE). CKIR promotes scientific research on knowledge- and innovation-based renewal and growth of companies and societies. CKIR conducts interdisciplinary research on organization, management, and social sciences, as well as on individual and contextual perception, cognition and emotion. CKIR is also interested in disciplines that deal with knowledge-based globalization and economic and social value and wealth creation.
CKIR in the SAVE ENERGY project
CKIR’s main responsibility in the SAVE ENERGY project is the Serious Game, which aims to create a fun and engaging game experience, while shaping the player’s behavior towards energy saving issues. Other primary responsibilities include project concept definitions as well as contributions to project vision. These tasks involve user-centered research in the SAVE ENERGY pilots aiming at creating project scenarios and decision models from the pilot users’ point of view. This type of research is in line with the SAVE ENERGY project’s objective to follow a so called Living Lab methodology, where large communities of motivated citizens are involved in co-creating ideas, decisions and recommendations. CKIR is also responsible for the policy recommendations that enable the dissemination of project’s results also in a wider context. CKIR takes actively part in the Helsinki pilot group.
To learn more about Aalto University School of Economics / CKIR, please see their webpage on http://www.hse.fi/EN/frontpage (will open in a new window).
