Lasse Torkkeli

Visiting Researcher
Business Studies
LUT Business School
Lappeenranta
+358 50 438 9808
LUT Focus Areas
Business and society
Research areas
Business and International Management

Biography

Chief Specialist at LAB UAS, Visiting Researcher at LUT University, and Adjunct Professor of International Business in the Turku School of Economics at the University of Turku.

He has published over 100 peer-reviewed scientific articles and is the most frequently published author in Web of Science- and Scopus-ranked journals on the topic of SME internationalization, as of January 2026. Published in journals such as Nature, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), International Business Review, International Marketing Review, and in Industrial Marketing Management, among other journals and publishers.

Launched and led the master´s programme on internaitonal business and entrepreneurship (MIBE) and led the research group on the same theme at LUT. Supervised ca. 50 final theses (at bachelor's, master's, and doctoral levels), and has served as project manager, principal investigator and/or co-investigator in projects since 2015, including:

  • Advancing the Internationalization of Socially Responsible Enterprises: Managing International Growth in Finnish Social SMEs
  • Unlocking Growth: Business-Driven Solutions for SME Export Efforts and Support Services
  • International Opportunities and Business Models in the Entrepreneurial Ecosystem (IOBMEE)
  • LAB UX Center
  • SEinHE - Developing Social Entrepreneurial Skills in Higher Education
    Enhancing Value Creation and Value Capture through Business Model Configuration: An Ecosystem Perspective (ENHANCE)
  • Boosting the Internationalization of Cleantech SMEs (BICS)
  • Go East: Sustainable internationalization of Finnish SMEs to Russia
  • Digipro: Internationally Scalable Business from Digitality

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Keywords

SME Internationalization, International Entrepreneurship, Digital Entrepreneurship, Sustainable Entrepreneuship

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