Teemu Makkonen
Biographic Data
| ID | 271869 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Teemu Makkonen |
| GIVEN NAMES | Teemu |
| FAMILY NAME | Makkonen |
| SIGNATURE | MAKKONEN T |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Eastern Finland |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-1065-1806 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 47 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 140 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 47 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2011 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 8 |
The renewal capacity of regional cities in Finland: An indicator-based assessment and stakeholder perspectives
Smaller cities are likely to follow different development trajectories than large cities. However, empirical research on their ability to generate new growth remains limited. This study investigates the renewal capacity of Finnish regional cities (between 5 000 and 50 000 inhabitants) to establish growth potentials. Evolutionary approaches of regional resilience and endogenous growth frame renewal capacity as an applicable framework of institutio…
Embedding the mission-oriented approach in smart specialization strategies: An exploratory assessment
This paper explores how the mission-oriented approach (MOA) can be embedded into the existing policy framework, especially at the local level, by focusing on the specific case of smart specialization strategies (S3s). In response to mounting pressure to shift from a competitiveness-driven paradigm to one oriented at tackling societal challenges, regional innovation strategies such as S3s have increasingly claimed to incorporate MOA elements. Agai…
A media-based indicator for studying functional cross-border regions
Administrative borders rarely match those of functional cross-border regions (CBRs). The mismatch hampers the study of CBRs. Here a novel media-based indicator is proposed for studying functional CBRs. The indicator is based on the similarity of topics, tone and geographical focus of articles in newspapers on adjacent sides of a border. The feasibility of the indicator was tested with three US–Canadian cases. The indicator aligns with tangible cr…
Detecting promising green ventures with foresight and data mining
There is growing consensus on the need to decouple economic growth from environmental degradation, with radical innovation playing a critical role in addressing environmental challenges. Green ventures are key drivers of such innovation, yet decision-makers lack systematic tools to identify ventures with transformative potential. This study advances computational foresight by integrating weak signal detection with venture-level performance analys…
Rethinking Regional Innovation Systems in the Age of De‐Globalisation
Since a few years, the international economic system has been experiencing the risk of growing fragmentation and uncertainty. However, research on Regional Innovation Systems (RIS) has yet to comprehensively engage with this phenomenon, despite its (spatial) significance. The paper contributes to addressing this gap, in particular by exploring the potential implications for RIS arising from the decline, disruption or reconfiguration of internatio…
The development of entrepreneurship in rural policy over time: Evidence from Finland, 1991–2027
Rural entrepreneurship has become an important scholarly topic. In the literature, it is often stated that entrepreneurship is increasingly regarded as a key policy target in rural development. However, previous research has not systematically mapped the evolution of entrepreneurship in rural policy to verify this notion. Here we investigate the changing importance and meaning given to entrepreneurship in the Finnish Rural Policy Programme, first…
Socio-economic impacts of different categories of state expenditure in urban and rural regions
Decisions regarding the geographical allocation of state expenditure are important factors determining regional development and cohesion. However, the topic has received little scholarly attention due to limited data availability. Here such data were collected to uncover how state expenditure is allocated in Finland. The results reveal that while the Finnish state expenditure system is a redistributive one, the current structure of state expendit…
Mapping rural-urban differences in state expenditures with geospatial methods – explorative spatial data analysis from Finland
Inclusive smart cities? Technology-driven urban development and disabilities
The concept of smart cities refers to urban areas that utilize (digital) technologies to enhance urban operations, services, and the quality of life of their residents. However, people have varying possibilities and capabilities for using (digital) technologies. This intertwines the technology-driven urban development with the ideal of inclusiveness (or the lack thereof) as it seems unrealistic to assume that smart cities would benefit equally th…
Selection biases in crowdsourced big data applied to tourism research: An interpretive framework
Cross-border tourism and innovation system failures
The literature on cross-border regional innovation systems suggests that facilitating cross-border interaction and knowledge flows promotes the innovativeness of border regions. Tourism can heighten the interaction and knowledge flows between populations, businesses, and other organisations on opposing sides of the border. However, by reviewing empirical studies on the topic, the paper contends that progress towards cross-border regional innovati…
Geopolitical conflicts, sanctions and international knowledge flows: EU–Russia collaboration during the Ukraine crisis
This article studies the development of scientific co‐publications between EU countries and Russia since the start of the Ukraine crisis in 2014. We investigate if economic sanctions and counter‐sanctions imposed during the crisis affected EU–Russia knowledge flows even before all science collaborations between the EU countries and Russia were eventually suspended as part of the EU sanctions in 2022. Our econometric analysis uses a gravity model …
Can large-scale RDI funding stimulate post-crisis recovery growth? Evidence for Finland during Covid-19
The COVID-19 pandemic and subsequent public health restrictions led to a significant slump in economic activities around the globe. This slump has been met by various policy actions to cushion the detrimental socio-economic consequences of the COVID-19 crisis and eventually bring the economy back on track. We provide an ex-ante evaluation of the effectiveness of a massive expansion of RDI funding in Finland to stimulate post-crisis recovery growt…
Vive le Tour!? Estimating the place‐based benefits of hosting the Tour de France
The Tour de France (TdF) is one of the biggest and most recognized annual sporting events in the world. Cities and regions participate actively by hosting a stage start and/or finish, but it is unclear if there are place‐based benefits from such local engagements. We estimate the direct and spatially indirect immediate regional benefits of hosting a TdF stage using monthly tourism data for French départements during 2011–2020. Our static and dyna…
Exploring senses of place and belonging in the Finnish, Italian and U.S. craft beer industry: A multiple case study
This paper explores how microbreweries are engaged within the local communities they serve. It investigates whether the relationship between microbreweries and their home localities is driven by microbreweries’ senses of place and belonging or by market-driven rationales instrumentally promoted through territorial branding strategies. Drawing from earlier literature the paper proposes a typology of microbreweries’ senses of place and belonging ba…
Where innovation meets directionality: An index to measure regional readiness to deal with societal challenges
The growing interest in addressing societal challenges is changing research and innovation policy dynamics. However, a challenge-oriented approach requires specific public sector capacities to coordinate and provide directionality, while having an innovation ecosystem with sufficient scientific and technological capabilities to address the grand societal challenges effectively. From this perspective, a challenge-oriented policy is not a one-size-…
Bourdieusian e-capital perspective enhancing digital capital discussion in the realm of third level digital divide
Purpose The purpose of this paper is to create a research framework to scrutinize how individuals' digital technology use produces tangible and intangible outcomes in online (digital) and offline realms. Design/methodology/approach The paper applies the Bourdieusian e-capital perspective to create a theory-based framework. The framework was used to guide a survey design to explore women's “social media-assisted reuse” at the micro-scale in Helsin…
Benchmarking the vitality of shrinking rural regions in Finland
Depopulation, commonly labelled as shrinkage, of rural areas can lead to a self-reinforcing vicious cycle of decreased regional vitality. However, some regions have been able to adapt to shrinkage and maintain their vitality despite the population loss. Thus, they have been able to “shrink smart”. While there is a growing interest in this topic and particularly in the policies facilitating adaptation to depopulation, there is no commonly agreed m…
The geography of innovation in times of crisis: A comparison of rural and urban RDI patterns during Covid-19
There is an evident research gap in the literature on the geography of innovation: very little is known about the innovation activities of rural enterprises in times of crisis. The topic is addressed here by analysing space–time differences in the receipt of research, development and innovation (RDI) funding by Finnish firms before and during the COVID-19 pandemic as a major economic shock. Using firm- and municipal-level panel regression analyse…
Cycling in Tibet: An analysis of tourists’ spatiotemporal behavior and infrastructure
Bringing borders back into cross-border regional innovation systems: Functions and dynamics
International boundaries have been mainly considered as barriers in literature on the 'cross-border regional innovation system' (CBRIS), in line with their traditional understanding. In this paper, we underline that such a perspective presents limits, and argue in favour of an understanding of multidimensional borders that are subject to dynamic change over time. By mobilizing conceptualizations from the field of border studies, we examine the va…
Chinese tourists in Nordic countries: An analysis of spatio-temporal behavior using geo-located travel blog data
Geo-located travel blogs, a new data source, enable to achieve more detailed analysis of tourists' spatio-temporal behavior. Taking Chinese tourists in Nordic countries as the research object, this paper focuses on their behavior, seasonal patterns and complex network effects by using geo-located travel blog data collected from Qunar.com. The results show that: (1) Chinese tourists visiting Nordic countries are often experienced in traveling. The…
From interregional knowledge networks to systems
Whereas interregional networks of individual actors have recently received growing attention, networks in terms of collective regional groups of organisations interacting with their counterparts remain largely ignored. This is surprising given the Smart Specialisation agenda's ‘outward looking’ approach. This conceptual paper explores the rationales and dimensions underpinning interregional knowledge exchange, networks and systems including a def…
Resilient cross-border regional innovation systems for sustainability? A systematic review of drivers and constraints
The role of proximity in stakeholder networks for Smart Specialisation: A Sparsely Populated Area case study
The European Smart Specialisation Strategy (S3) with its underlying aim to support regional growth, cohesion, and innovation has by now been widely applied to European Sparsely Populated Areas (SPAs). Previous works have identified that intra-regional stakeholder networks are important for a successful S3 implementation, and that their establishment is related to the level of proximity between stakeholders; however, the nature of such networks in…
Tourists’ digital footprint: The spatial patterns of tourist flows in Qingdao, China
Border region studies: The Structure of an ‘Offbeat’ Field of Regional Studies
The contemporary conditions of academic capitalism exert pressures on researchers to avoid ‘peripheral’ journals and ‘unfashionable’ topics. This paper sheds a light onto the structure of one such ‘offbeat’ field, namely ‘border region studies’, by discussing its geographical distribution, key themes, significance and impact. The review suggests that border region studies can be considered a significant and important ‘branch’ of regional studies,…
Scientific collaboration in the Danish–German border region of Southern Jutland–Schleswig
© 2015 The Royal Danish Geographical Society. This paper investigates the geographical and organizational patterns of scientific collaboration, in terms of co-authored scientific articles, in the Danish–German border region of Southern Jutland–Schleswig. The motivation behind the approach lies in the fact that scientific collaboration in border regions, in general, and the studied region, in particular, has rarely been discussed in the academic l…
Cross-border knowledge transfer and innovation in the European neighbourhood: Tourism cooperation at the Finnish-Russian border
Exploring spatio-temporal changes of city inbound tourism flow: The case of Shanghai, China
Innovation and smart destinations: Critical insights
Bringing borders back into cross-border regional innovation systems: Functions and dynamics
International boundaries have been mainly considered as barriers in literature on the 'cross-border regional innovation system' (CBRIS), in line with their traditional understanding. In this paper, we underline that such a perspective presents limits, and argue in favour of an understanding of multidimensional borders that are subject to dynamic change over time. By mobilizing conceptualizations from the field of border studies, we examine the va…
Cross-border regional innovation ecosystems: The role of non-profit organizations in cross-border cooperation at the US-Mexico border
Benchmarking the vitality of shrinking rural regions in Finland
Depopulation, commonly labelled as shrinkage, of rural areas can lead to a self-reinforcing vicious cycle of decreased regional vitality. However, some regions have been able to adapt to shrinkage and maintain their vitality despite the population loss. Thus, they have been able to “shrink smart”. While there is a growing interest in this topic and particularly in the policies facilitating adaptation to depopulation, there is no commonly agreed m…
Peer review assessment of originality in tourism journals: Critical perspective of key gatekeepers
Cycling in Tibet: An analysis of tourists’ spatiotemporal behavior and infrastructure
Inclusive smart cities? Technology-driven urban development and disabilities
The concept of smart cities refers to urban areas that utilize (digital) technologies to enhance urban operations, services, and the quality of life of their residents. However, people have varying possibilities and capabilities for using (digital) technologies. This intertwines the technology-driven urban development with the ideal of inclusiveness (or the lack thereof) as it seems unrealistic to assume that smart cities would benefit equally th…
Developing survey metrics for analysing cross-border proximity
Cross-border innovation cooperation (CBIC) has been heralded as one of the corner stones of innovation-driven growth opportunities for firms located in cross-border regions (CBRs). The success of this cooperation is affected by varying types of proximities identified in the literature as geographical, institutional, cultural, cognitive, technological, organizational and social. Although the topic has been widely discussed, the validation of the c…
Cross‐Border Regional Innovation System Integration: An Analytical Framework
The importance of inter‐regional co‐operation and innovation are widely accepted in the development rhetoric of the European Union. The highlighted importance of both themes in the context of borderlands has recently led to the coining of a new concept, cross‐border regional innovation system. However, little attention has been given to the empirical analysis of the concept. This paper suggests a framework for empirically validating the concept b…
Selection biases in crowdsourced big data applied to tourism research: An interpretive framework
Cross-border tourism and innovation system failures
The literature on cross-border regional innovation systems suggests that facilitating cross-border interaction and knowledge flows promotes the innovativeness of border regions. Tourism can heighten the interaction and knowledge flows between populations, businesses, and other organisations on opposing sides of the border. However, by reviewing empirical studies on the topic, the paper contends that progress towards cross-border regional innovati…
The geography of innovation in times of crisis: A comparison of rural and urban RDI patterns during Covid-19
There is an evident research gap in the literature on the geography of innovation: very little is known about the innovation activities of rural enterprises in times of crisis. The topic is addressed here by analysing space–time differences in the receipt of research, development and innovation (RDI) funding by Finnish firms before and during the COVID-19 pandemic as a major economic shock. Using firm- and municipal-level panel regression analyse…
Smart Specialisation strategies on the periphery: A data-triangulation approach to governance issues and practices
In spite of our current understanding of Smart Specialisation Strategy (S3) design and implementation, an understanding of interrelated governance practices aimed at addressing S3 governance issues is lacking. Applying a data-triangulation approach to a large peripheral Finnish region (Lapland), the analysis suggests that S3 implementation faces two key challenges: first, the development of stakeholder networks to support diversified specializati…
Inter-regional innovation cooperation and structural heterogeneity: Does being a rural, or border region, or both, make a difference
A social network analysis of cooperation in forest, mining and tourism industries in the Finnish–Russian cross-border region: Connectivity, hubs and robustness
In this article the distribution and intensity of cross-border cooperation (CBC) networks are tested with primary survey and interview data collected from the Finnish–Russian cross-border region. The study concentrates on the cross-border connectivity of three regionally significant and interlocking sectors (forest, mining and tourism industries together with associated research and administrative organisations) with varying strategies towards na…
Containers, facilitators, innovators? The role of cities and city employees in innovation activities
Innovation has long been considered one of the key engines of economic growth, and patents as important incentives for research and development activity. Particularly in terms of intellectual property rights (IPR), however, little is known about how cities contribute to regional innovation: are they containers, facilitators or innovators? This is investigated here through empirical material derived from 27 interviews with top departmental managem…
Tales from the Thousand Lakes: Placing the Creative Network of Metal Music in Finland
Music in general and the music industry in particular have been understudied subjects in the field of geography. The relatively scarce amount of literature on music industries has concentrated its attention on companies operating inside the industry, and on popular music. There is a gap in the knowledge on the networking processes of individuals inside the music industry and the geographical dynamics of music genres. Thus, as a point of departure…
Urbanisation and the shifting conditions of the state as a territorial‐political community: A study of the geographies of political efficacy
In this paper, we contribute to recent debates on the geographies of discontent by examining the implications of urbanisation on the state as a territorial‐political community in the European context. Building on an Arendtian conception of politics, we argue that the emergence of the “urban” as a dominant spatio‐political imaginary has led to a narrowing of the conditions of politics and political agency within states. The urban imaginary has pro…
Mapping rural-urban differences in state expenditures with geospatial methods – explorative spatial data analysis from Finland
National innovation system capabilities among leader and follower countries: Widening gaps or global convergence
The concept of technological catch-up, as it refers to a situation where some less-developed countries have been able to catch up to the world leaders in terms of innovation, has inspired an abundant amount of scholarly attention. However, studies comprehensively focusing on factors considered important for innovation in the literature on national innovation systems (NISs) are rare. This gap is addressed here through a systematic analysis of the …
Innovation and Regional Socio-Economic Development - Evidence from the Finnish Local Administrative Units (1)
Innovation and Regional Socio-Economic Development - Evidence from the Finnish Local Administrative Units (1) It is often argued that innovation plays a key role in the economic growth of regions. Therefore, the impacts of innovation on the socio-economic development of regions have been widely discussed in previous studies, but with divergent areal coverage, methods, and datasets. As a point for departure, these relationships redrawn from intern…
National innovation system capabilities among leader and follower countries: Widening gaps or global convergence
The concept of technological catch-up, as it refers to a situation where some less-developed countries have been able to catch up to the world leaders in terms of innovation, has inspired an abundant amount of scholarly attention. However, studies comprehensively focusing on factors considered important for innovation in the literature on national innovation systems (NISs) are rare. This gap is addressed here through a systematic analysis of the …
Tales from the Thousand Lakes: Placing the Creative Network of Metal Music in Finland
Music in general and the music industry in particular have been understudied subjects in the field of geography. The relatively scarce amount of literature on music industries has concentrated its attention on companies operating inside the industry, and on popular music. There is a gap in the knowledge on the networking processes of individuals inside the music industry and the geographical dynamics of music genres. Thus, as a point of departure…
Scientific collaboration in the Danish–German border region of Southern Jutland–Schleswig
© 2015 The Royal Danish Geographical Society. This paper investigates the geographical and organizational patterns of scientific collaboration, in terms of co-authored scientific articles, in the Danish–German border region of Southern Jutland–Schleswig. The motivation behind the approach lies in the fact that scientific collaboration in border regions, in general, and the studied region, in particular, has rarely been discussed in the academic l…
Northern comfort: Geographical scale, locality and the evolution of networks in the Finnish metal music genre
There is a limited geographical literature on the evolution of networks in distinct music genres. This gap is addressed here through an analysis of empirical evidence on the F innish metal music genre, specifically utilising a questionnaire survey of Finnish metal music bands. The results show that, in terms of networking, local buzz is more important for bands that reside in large cities compared with those from small localities. However, even s…
Border region studies: The Structure of an ‘Offbeat’ Field of Regional Studies
The contemporary conditions of academic capitalism exert pressures on researchers to avoid ‘peripheral’ journals and ‘unfashionable’ topics. This paper sheds a light onto the structure of one such ‘offbeat’ field, namely ‘border region studies’, by discussing its geographical distribution, key themes, significance and impact. The review suggests that border region studies can be considered a significant and important ‘branch’ of regional studies,…
North from here: The collaboration networks of Finnish metal music genre superstars
This paper explores the collaboration networks of Finnish metal music genre superstars, the evolution of these networks through time and the importance of geographical scale in their evolution. The article, therefore, aims to shed light upon how successful creative teams network: locally (local buzz) and/or globally (global pipelines). The contemporary literature on economic geography underlines the importance of the local scene and of geographic…
Smart specialisation strategies and cross-border integration of regional innovation systems: Policy dynamics and challenges for the Upper Rhine
The aim of this paper is to provide insights into the implications of the European Commission’s smart specialisation agenda in a specific, cross-border context. The paper critically reflects on some of the RIS3 (research and innovation strategies for smart specialisation) agenda’s premises by illustrating its practical implementation in the Upper Rhine area (i.e. Alsace in France and Baden-Württemberg in Germany). The first section revisits not o…
Containers, facilitators, innovators? The role of cities and city employees in innovation activities
Innovation has long been considered one of the key engines of economic growth, and patents as important incentives for research and development activity. Particularly in terms of intellectual property rights (IPR), however, little is known about how cities contribute to regional innovation: are they containers, facilitators or innovators? This is investigated here through empirical material derived from 27 interviews with top departmental managem…
Cross‐Border Regional Innovation System Integration: An Analytical Framework
The importance of inter‐regional co‐operation and innovation are widely accepted in the development rhetoric of the European Union. The highlighted importance of both themes in the context of borderlands has recently led to the coining of a new concept, cross‐border regional innovation system. However, little attention has been given to the empirical analysis of the concept. This paper suggests a framework for empirically validating the concept b…
A social network analysis of cooperation in forest, mining and tourism industries in the Finnish–Russian cross-border region: Connectivity, hubs and robustness
In this article the distribution and intensity of cross-border cooperation (CBC) networks are tested with primary survey and interview data collected from the Finnish–Russian cross-border region. The study concentrates on the cross-border connectivity of three regionally significant and interlocking sectors (forest, mining and tourism industries together with associated research and administrative organisations) with varying strategies towards na…
Cross-border knowledge transfer and innovation in the European neighbourhood: Tourism cooperation at the Finnish-Russian border
Developing survey metrics for analysing cross-border proximity
Cross-border innovation cooperation (CBIC) has been heralded as one of the corner stones of innovation-driven growth opportunities for firms located in cross-border regions (CBRs). The success of this cooperation is affected by varying types of proximities identified in the literature as geographical, institutional, cultural, cognitive, technological, organizational and social. Although the topic has been widely discussed, the validation of the c…
Inter-regional innovation cooperation and structural heterogeneity: Does being a rural, or border region, or both, make a difference
Cross-border regional innovation ecosystems: The role of non-profit organizations in cross-border cooperation at the US-Mexico border
Peer review assessment of originality in tourism journals: Critical perspective of key gatekeepers
The Proximity Puzzle in Cross-Border Regions
This paper studies cross-border cooperation at the US-Canadian Cascadia region by implementing an in-depth analysis to examine the role of cognitive proximity as a proxy for favourable conditions for cross-border economic interaction (measured as co-publications, co-patents and networking). The analysis deploys primary and secondary data sources analysed with qualitative and quantitative methods. Based on the results, the case study region demons…
Tourists’ digital footprint: The spatial patterns of tourist flows in Qingdao, China
Exploring spatio-temporal changes of city inbound tourism flow: The case of Shanghai, China
Innovation and smart destinations: Critical insights
Smart Specialisation strategies on the periphery: A data-triangulation approach to governance issues and practices
In spite of our current understanding of Smart Specialisation Strategy (S3) design and implementation, an understanding of interrelated governance practices aimed at addressing S3 governance issues is lacking. Applying a data-triangulation approach to a large peripheral Finnish region (Lapland), the analysis suggests that S3 implementation faces two key challenges: first, the development of stakeholder networks to support diversified specializati…
Chinese tourists in Nordic countries: An analysis of spatio-temporal behavior using geo-located travel blog data
Geo-located travel blogs, a new data source, enable to achieve more detailed analysis of tourists' spatio-temporal behavior. Taking Chinese tourists in Nordic countries as the research object, this paper focuses on their behavior, seasonal patterns and complex network effects by using geo-located travel blog data collected from Qunar.com. The results show that: (1) Chinese tourists visiting Nordic countries are often experienced in traveling. The…
From interregional knowledge networks to systems
Whereas interregional networks of individual actors have recently received growing attention, networks in terms of collective regional groups of organisations interacting with their counterparts remain largely ignored. This is surprising given the Smart Specialisation agenda's ‘outward looking’ approach. This conceptual paper explores the rationales and dimensions underpinning interregional knowledge exchange, networks and systems including a def…
Resilient cross-border regional innovation systems for sustainability? A systematic review of drivers and constraints
The role of proximity in stakeholder networks for Smart Specialisation: A Sparsely Populated Area case study
The European Smart Specialisation Strategy (S3) with its underlying aim to support regional growth, cohesion, and innovation has by now been widely applied to European Sparsely Populated Areas (SPAs). Previous works have identified that intra-regional stakeholder networks are important for a successful S3 implementation, and that their establishment is related to the level of proximity between stakeholders; however, the nature of such networks in…
Geography (29 works) · Economic geography (23 works) · Business (22 works) · Political science (21 works) · Regional science (21 works) · Computer Science (15 works) · Regional Development and Policy (14 works) · Cross-Border Cooperation and Integration (13 works) · Economics (13 works) · Tourism (11 works)