Skills, Creativity and Innovation in the Digital Platform Era: Analyzing the New Reality of Professions and Entrepreneurship - Hardcover

by Seppo Poutanen (Author), Anne Kovalainen (Author)

This book brings together two important areas: the separate research topics of professions, platforms and entrepreneurship, and the various dimensions of what platformization means to work and to professions in contemporary societies.

Author Biography

Seppo Poutanen is Senior Research Fellow and Docent of sociology at the University of Turku's School of Economics, Finland. He is trained both in philosophy and sociology, and his areas of expertise include metaethics, social epistemology, social theory, sociology of science and technology, gender studies, methodology of social sciences, and economic sociology. He has also worked as faculty fellow at Harvard University, Stanford University, and London School of Economics and Political Science.

Anne Kovalainen is an economic sociologist by training and Professor at the University of Turku's School of Economics, Finland. She is a member of the Finnish Academy of Science and Letters and the Finnish Society of Sciences and Letters. She has also worked as faculty fellow at Harvard University, Stanford University, and London School of Economics and Political Science.