Professor Vladimir Platonov from St. Petersburg State University of Economics and Finance is working as visiting researcher at Lappeenranta University of Technology, Northern Dimension Research Centre NORDI between May-October 2009. Professor Platonov is working at NORDI with the funding granted by the Academy of Finland. His research topic is international cross-border innovation networks. In his research he will study for example do the cross-border innovation networks have internal economic drivers for their development or do they occur only due to government support.
Professor Platonov has been working at several Russian research institutes and universities and been involved in many research and development projects on innovations. His research interests are innovation and industrial transformation, transition economies, and management accounting. Professor Platonov is very interested in sharing his views with other innovation specialists.
Contacts of Professor Platonov: vladimir.platonov(at)lut.fi; vplatonov(at)inbox.ru