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Satu Parjanen
Researcher at Lappeenranta University of Technology
Publications - 26
Citations - 542
Satu Parjanen is an academic researcher from Lappeenranta University of Technology. The author has contributed to research in topics: Open innovation & Creativity. The author has an hindex of 13, co-authored 25 publications receiving 470 citations.
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Experiencing Creativity in the Organization: From Individual Creativity to Collective Creativity
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors investigate the concept of creativity and collective creativity in the context of promoting the employees' creativeness and innovativeness in a private company and propose a case study based on empirical data from an action research based process conducted in one private company.
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Challenges of multi‐actor involvement in the public sector front‐end innovation processes: Constructing an open innovation model for developing well‐being services
TL;DR: In this article, the authors present a case of facilitating innovativeness by involving stakeholder groups in the development of service production in the public sector, which is related to the provision of housing and well-being services to ageing people.
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Collective Creativity and Brokerage Functions in Heavily Cross-Disciplined Innovation Processes
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors take the changed pattern of innovation as a point of departure: innovations are seen to emerge in nonlinear processes, often combining very diverse knowledge bases, and the brokerage function is essential in exploiting the different kinds of distances.
Creating possibilities for collective creativity : Brokerage Functions in Practice-Based Innovation
TL;DR: Satu et al. as discussed by the authors investigated collective creativity in the context of practice-based innovation and defined factors that enhance collective creativity, especially in the fuzzy front end phase of innovation processes.
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Brokerage functions in a virtual idea generation platform: Possibilities for collective creativity?
TL;DR: This study investigates brokerage functions in avirtual environment where people with diverse experience, areas of expertise and perspectives collaborate, and focuses on the front-end stage of an innovation process: the ideation phase in a virtual idea generation environment.