Petteri Repo
Research Director, Ph.D. (Econ.) , Adjunct professor (docent)
Tel. +358 29 505 9025, +358 400 737 968
Fax +358 9 876 4374
e-mail: firstname.lastname@ncrc.fi
I enjoy studying how consumers can participate in the product development of all kinds of new services and devices. I am also interested in electronic commerce and consumer movements.
Research program
Sustainable living environments and innovations
Projects 2012-
- Citizen's forum (SADe) - We're involved in the development and piloting of a Finnish governmental participatory web service.
- User driven innovations - cases and benchmarking - We're collecting cases of user driven innovations in companies and carrying out a policy benchmark study.
- User oriented development of services in electric traffic - We're identifying new services for electronic traffic in the Helsinki metropolitan area. The project consortium will have some 500 electric cars at its disposal.
- Virtual coach - We're developing peer-to-peer well-being services.
Selected papers
- Lammi, M., P. Repo & P. Timonen (2012) Consumerism and Citizenship in the Context of Climate Change. In Rask M, Worthington R & Lammi M (eds.) Citizen Participation in Global Environmental Governance. Earthscan: London.
- Repo, P. (2011) Users as potential entrepreneurs: A side note on user innovators and their careers in Nordic skiing. 9th International Open and User Innovation Workshop, Vienna.
- Heiskanen E., S. Hyysalo, T. Kotro, P. Repo (2010) Constructing innovative users and user-inclusive innovation communities. Technology Analysis & Strategic Management 22(4) 495-511.
- Repo, P. & A. Raijas (2010) Consumer megatrends as drivers for policy. Futura 29(4) 70-82.
- Repo, P., P. Timonen & K. Zilliacus (2009) Alternative regulatory cases challenging consumer policy. Journal of Consumer Policy 32(3) 289-301.
- Repo, P. & T. Kotro (2008) Opening up product development to users: Insights from the Finnish sports industry. Proceedings of the ISPIM 2008: Open Innovation: Creating Products and Services through Collaboration, Tours (Loire Valley).
- Heiskanen, E. & P. Repo (2007) User Involvement and Entrepreneurial Action. Human Technology 3(2) 167-187.
- Koskinen, I., P. Repo, K. Hyvönen (2006): WAP and Accountability: Shortcomings of the Mobile Internet as an Interactional Problem. Journal of Usability Studies 2(1) 22-38.
- Repo, P., K. Hyvönen, M. Pantzar & P. Timonen (2006): Inventing Use for a Novel Mobile Service. International Journal of Technology and Human Interaction. 2(2) 49-62.
- Koskinen, I. & P. Repo (2006): Face the Music: Mobile Multimedia in Social Context. Advances in European Consumer Research, Vol. 7 66-69.
- Heiskanen, E., I. Koskinen, P. Repo & P. Timonen (2006): Involving users in service design: user experience vs. user expectations. Advances in European Consumer Research, Vol. 7 230-236.
- Pantzar, M. & P. Repo (2006): Defining Innovation Policy - A Book Review. International Sociology. 21(3) 444-446.
- Hyvönen, K. & P. Repo (2005): The Use of Mobile Services in Finland: Adoption Challenges Diffusion Theory. GESTS International Transactions on Computer Science and Engineering. 20(1) 166-178.
- Carlsson, C., K. Hyvönen, P. Repo & P. Walden (2005): Asynchronous Adoption Patterns of Mobile Services. Proceedings of the Thirty-Eigth Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences, Hawaii.
Edited book
- Repo, Petteri, Ilpo Koskinen & Heidi Grönman toim. (2006): Innovaatioiden kotiutuminen (The Domestication of Innovations). National Consumer Research Centre: Helsinki. Abstracts in English available here.
Miscellaneous
- Education: Ph. D. (Econ), Swedish School of Economics and Business Administration, 2000. Adjunct professor (docent) at the Aalto University of Economics (marketing, consumer driven product development)
- Dissertation: Repo, Petteri (2000): Consumer Interest in Free Trade Revisited - Interpreting Reactions of Four Consumer Organizations. Svenska handelshögskolan, Ekonomi och samhälle nr 84, Helsingfors.
- Passions: Squash and photography
