The ReGrow research project, which was created on the basis of cooperation within the SWiPE consortium, will connect researchers from Etla and the University of Turku once again. The research group will continue studying platform economy and data economy furthermore. The ReGrow project explores innovations and their transformation from the perspective of novelty of ideas, … Continued
The SWiPE Research consortium has been engaged in diverse international publishing activities throughout its activity. Some of the research work of the consortium is published as a book: Poutanen, S., Kovalainen, A. & Rouvinen, P. (eds) Digital Work and the Platform Economy: Understanding Tasks, Skills and Capabilities in the New Era. New York & Abingdon: … Continued
The detailed programme for the WORK2019 conference is available on conference website. Also the daily programme of the conference is updated, please look it out on conference Programme site. Warm welcome to WORK2019 conference!
Over the past three years, the SWiPE Research consortium has studied the changes made by digitalisation in work content, work done on digital platforms and platform economy, new meanings of work, changes in expert work, entrepreneurship, self employment, the links between education and working life and immigrant entrepreneurship. They are all significant phenomena of today’s … Continued
The multidisciplinary international WORK2019 Conference on work and working life will be organised for the fourth time. The conference will be held in August 14-16 at the Finlandia Hall and the National Museum of Finland, Helsinki. This year, the main organisers of the conference are the Turku Centre for Labour Studies TCLS, SWiPE Research Consortium … Continued
The research projects of the Strategic Research Council’s WORK and HEALTH programmes will end during 2019. The schedules for concluding events of the project’s are now published. The SWiPE Consortium’s concluding seminar will be held at the WORK2019 conference at the Finlandia Hall on 16 August 2019. The programme, schedule and registration instructions for the … Continued
SWiPE research consortium has studied platform work and new forms of work since 2016. The research project will continue until August this year. The consortium’s concluding seminar will be organised on 16th August, simultaneously with WORK2019 conference organised on 14–16 August in Helsinki. The SWiPE consortium, sponsored by the Strategic Research Council, has studied in … Continued
The latest policy recommendations conducted by the Strategic Research Council’s projects are now available on the SRC website (in Finnish). Policy recommendations, a.k.a. policy briefs provide solutions for the decision-makers for the issues of our society, based on the latest research results, in a concise and clear form. The policy recommendations are divided into four themes, such … Continued
SWiPE Research Consortium organised EU Policies and Initiatives on Platform Work and Light Entrepreneurship seminar on 8th April. The keynote speaker of the seminar was Marco Torregrossa, the secretary general of the European Forum for Independent Professionals. Torregrossa highlighted numerous examples of European countries and the United states about the good policy approaches and initiatives for … Continued
The SWiPE research project conducted a case study that gathered observations about the impact of automation on work and solutions to problems with its measurement. The results of the case study has been published as a brief Analyzing the Transformation of Work and Its Effects on Productivity in the Age of Automatization?, Etla Brief 78. The case … Continued