But the strategies, policies, and systems established and collective experiences and lessons learnt during the creation stage are likely to have the most significant and long-lasting influence on the future developments of a software venture. This stage thus deserves special attention. Therefore such contexts are particularly addressed by the research agenda. As the deputy head of the Department of Computer Science and Information Systems he is gradually taking a more and more active role in fostering the research activities of the department as a whole. This opportunity fascinates him because high quality research in software business cannot be done in isolation from the other disciplines studied and taught in the department.
Close collaboration is indeed necessary.
Industrial Collaboration Delivering high quality teaching and research in the context of software business is practically impossible without extensive collaboration with the software industry. Long-term collaboration between academia and software industry contributes to the creation and sharing of knowledge in this rapidly advancing context. FIPA is thus the largest actor in its field in Finland. He also serves in the board of one Finnish software company publicly listed in one of the Stock Exchange Lists of HEX . He is willing to selectively accept such responsibilities because they help him learn immensely about the strategic and operations management of software businesses and generate research projects in areas most relevant for the software industry.