Juha Järvinen

Specialist, Turbiini, Metropolia University of Applied Sciences

Juha Järvinen

Specialist, Turbiini, Metropolia University of Applied Sciences

Juha Järvinen works as an innovation specialist in the RDI services at Metropolia University of Applied Sciences. He holds a Doctor of Arts degree and is an industrial designer by training, inspired by discovering and promoting new innovative solutions, insights, and ways of working. As a counterbalance to his day job focused on building a better future, Juha enjoys hobbies related to the past, such as genealogy, collecting, and vintage cars.

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    Juha Järvinen, Pamela Spokes

    Episode 4: From Research to Reality – Turning Academic Insights into Innovation

    In this episode of Innovators at work podcast, we will be looking closer at taking research and understanding how and when to make it a viable commercial product or service. There are different parts to break down what needs to happen and how you can do this in an academic environment. This topic is being pursued by universities around the world as we speak. They are all trying to get the research out of the papers and applied to make the world a better place.

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    Pamela Spokes, Juha Järvinen

    Episode 3: Prototyping – Turning ideas into reality

    In this episode of Innovators at work podcast, we will be looking closer at Prototyping and how to take intangible ideas and make them into something tangible. This process of creating tangibility is so important in the innovation process. It is a form of communication. This is why it is vital to incorporate prototyping into everyday activities in the workplace.

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    pop podcast

    Pamela Spokes, Juha Järvinen

    Episode 2: How ‘innovation events’ shape future thinkers

    In this episode of Innovators at work podcast, Pamela Spokes and Juha Järvinen will be looking closer at Innovation events: challenges, hackathons, service jams, design sprints, etc. and how these can quickly and effectively change mindsets around innovation and innovators. And how identifying with this mindset is the biggest step towards becoming an innovator that there is.

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    pop podcast

    Pamela Spokes, Juha Järvinen

    Episode 1: Innovators vs. innovations – Where should we focus?

    In this episode of Innovators at work podcast, Pamela Spokes and Juha Järvinen will be looking closer at Innovations versus Innovators: People vs outcomes. These two things are different but connected! How people recognize innovation and how they can take part in it themselves?

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    Juha Järvinen

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