Besides the post as the Director for the IPR University Center since 2000 (see www.iprinfo.com) I am also leading a graduate school in IP law (INNOCENT) that started from the beginning of 2007. Furthermore I carry responsibility for the IP activities at the Hanken School of Economics (one of the Member Universities in IPR University Center), especially the new English Masters program in IP law that commences in autumn 2007.

I am also the chairman of the Copyright Council (Ministry of Education), the Board for Good Business Practies (the Central Chamber of Commerce, Finland), and a member in the Committee for IP matters (the Ministry for Trade and Industry).

I am a Member of the Board of the Finnish AIPPI Group, the Board of the Finnish Association for Industrial Property and the Chairman for the Editorial Board of the Journal NIR (Nordisk Immaterialrättslig tidskrift).

Spring 2007
European IP-law (course Helsinki University, May 2007).
The new copyright legislation in the digital environment (project, IPR University Center 2006-2007).

I have long experience of teaching at all levels in Hanken and University of Helsinki.

I have been the organiser of several courses and events for Nordic postgraduate students (labour law, intellectual property law).

Supervisor of several students that successfully have defended their dissertation since 2000- Lena Maier (Univ. of Stockholm), Lotti Ryberg Welander (Univ. of Lund), Ilkka Rahnasto (Univ. of Helsinki), Ingalill Aspholm (Hanken), Marcus Norrgård (Helsinki Univ.), Jukka Palm (Helsinki Univ.) Petra Herzfeld-Olsson (Univ. of Stockholm), Pirjo Kontkanen, (Univ. of Helsinki), Mikko Huuskonen (Univ. of Helsinki, Hans Jonasson (Hanken).

Two of my present project focus on the relationship between Academia and research. At an international level we try to map the different models for collaborating between research and industry especially regarding the rights to intellectual property. At a national level I am doing research that can provide some basic thinking for the implementation of the new legislation concerning universities' rights to inventions made by researchers.

I am also taking part in several other international projects in the fields of labour law and intellectual property law. In labour law I am participating in a project led by Professor Bob Hepple (Cambridge) on the making of labour law in Europe after 1945. The Swedish Work Life Institute (Stockholm) is funding a project on temporary agency work and its regulation in Europe where I co-operate with a research group lead by Professor Brian Bercusson (Kings College, London) and director Kerstin Ahlberg, Stockholm. I am also participating in a project lead by professors Marianne Levin (University of Stockholm) and Annette Kur (Max Planck Institute in Munich) on IPs in transition.

I am the author (or co-author) of several books and more than one hundred articles mainly in the fields of Intellectual property (IP) law, EU law, labour law and discrimination law.

I am the author of the book "Intellectual Property Law in Finland" (2001) and the editor of "Intellectual Property Beyond Rights" (2005).