Ville Takala is a Postdoctoral Researcher in the department of Management and Organisation. He is PI of the Business Finland funded (2021–2024) research project “Towards an Entrepreneurial Welfare State? The Practices of Challenge-Driven Innovation Policies”.
Ville's research explores the digital future of the state, particularly as it relates to the affordances of new digital data sources. In addition, his research investigates novel policy instruments, such as challenge prizes, and their capacity to drive mission-oriented innovation in the public sector.
Ville’s PhD, which he completed at the department of Sociology at Goldsmiths, University of London, focusses on questions surrounding the ownership of data within the context of the Nordic Welfare State. Ville’s broader aim is to identify novel ways to utilise digital data (that now increasingly accumulates in the private sector) for the advancement of public value.
