Postdoctoral researcher in complexity-aligned innovation and institutional design
Aalto University is where science and art meet technology and business. We shape a sustainable future by making research breakthroughs in and across our disciplines, sparking the game changers of tomorrow and creating novel solutions to major global challenges. Our community is made up of 120 nationalities, 14 000 students, 400 professors and close to 5000 other faculty and staff working on our dynamic campus in Espoo, Greater Helsinki, Finland. Diversity is part of who we are, and we actively work to ensure our community’s diversity and inclusiveness. This is why we warmly encourage qualified candidates from all backgrounds to join our community.The Department of Design is s a community of creative and responsible researchers and design experts. We educate front-line design professionals and visionaries for established, changing and emerging fields of design. (https://www.aalto.fi/en/department-of-design). NODUS Sustainable Design Research Group is globally recognized for transdisciplinary design research to achieve sustainable futures. The research group is currently active in transition design, value-sensitive design, behavioural design and more-than-human/multispecies design in the contexts of sustainability transitions governance and urban transformations. (https://nodus.aalto.fi)We are now looking for aPostdoctoral researcher in complexity-aligned innovation and institutional designAre you a researcher excited by complexity/systems theory and collective intelligence, and eager to do empirical work on how innovation systems can be reimagined for an age of systemic disruption? This position offers a unique opportunity for an ambitious researcher to help develop and implement research on complexity-aligned innovation governance — investigating how innovation systems can move beyond a single growth logic toward the capacity to sense different strategic contexts and respond with appropriate institutional postures. The work mobilises complexity and systems, innovation studies, collective intelligence and participatory, action-research methods, in close engagement with Finnish and international innovation-ecosystem actors. The position is part of the Business Finland–funded project on Tech-Enabled Institutional Innovation.The contract is 12–15 months depending on starting time. The salary range for this position follows Aalto guidelines and will be in the range of 4160 – 4300 €/month depending on the expertise of the candidate. The position requires residency in Finland for the duration of the contract.Your role and goalsYou will contribute to both the conceptual and empirical development of the project. On the empirical side, you will undertake qualitative research in real-life innovation settings — conducting in-depth interviews with innovation-ecosystem actors and designing and facilitating co-creative workshops — grounded in an action-research approach in which the research process itself helps to co-create new innovation practices. On the ...