Maria Salomaa
Policies and Interventions
RUNIN research:
Maria’s research project will examine how universities engage with regional development policies through participation in Structural Funds programmes. Universities and other regional institutions form partnerships to compete for external funding, thus contributing to the formation of university-business and/or university-public sector networks, but interestingly the universities’ role and motivation to take part in the such consortiums have not been largely examined – even though higher education institutions are one of the key organisations delivering projects. Universities roles, profiles and partnerships in these projects may vary dramatically based on their organizational features, location and history, which is why it is important to examine their participation on an organisation level. The aim of selected case studies is to explore how the SF projects are embedded in universities’ education and research missions: Is the participation merely an opportunistic way to diversify the funding base with “add-ons” to raise university’s regional profile? Or are the SF project portfolios strategically planned, entrepreneurial activity that truly benefits the local economy while successfully combined with higher education’s traditional missions?
Host institution
University of Lincoln
Secondment institution
Universidade de Aveiro
Universiteit Twente
Journal Articles
Salomaa, Maria & Charles, David (2021). The university third mission and the European Structural Funds in peripheral regions: Insights from Finland
Science and Public Policy, 2021, 1-12 (open access)
Keywords: structural funds; third mission; regional development; higher education institutions; peripheral regions; institutional logics
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1093/scipol/scab003
Salomaa, Maria (2019). Third mission and regional context: assessing universities’ entrepreneurial architecture in rural regions.
Regional Studies, Regional Science, 6:1, 233-249.
Keywords: entrepreneurial architecture framework, third mission, entrepreneurial university, rural region
DOI: 10.1080/21681376.2019.1586574
Nieth, Lisa; Benneworth, Paul; Charles, David; Fonseca, Liliana; Rodrigues, Carlos; Salomaa, Maria & Stienstra, Martin (2018). Embedding entrepreneurial regional innovation ecosystems: Reflecting on the role of effectual entrepreneurial discovery processes.
European Planning Studies, 26:11, 2147-2166.
Keywords: entrepreneurial discovery, agency activation, partnerships, causal and effectual approaches
DOI: 10.1080/09654313.2018.1530144
Book Chapters
Fonseca, Liliana & Salomaa, Maria (2019). Entrepreneurial Universities and Regional Innovation: Matching Smart Specialisation Strategies to Regional Needs?
In A. D. Daniel, A. Teixeira & M. Torres Preto (Eds.), Examining the Role of Entrepreneurial Universities in Regional Development, pp. 260-285. Hershey, PA: IGI Global.
DOI: DOI: 10.4018/978-1-7998-0174-0.ch014
Working Papers
RUNIN WP 07/2019 - Maria Salomaa and David Charles
The university third mission and the European Structural Funds in peripheral regions: Insights from Finland
Keywords: Structural Funds, entrepreneurial university, third mission, regional development, University Consortia
DOI: 10.3990/4.2535-5686.2019.07
RUNIN WP 03/2019 - Liliana Fonseca and Maria Salomaa
Entrepreneurial universities and regional innovation: matching smart specialisation strategies to regional needs?
Keywords: Structural Funds, University of Aveiro, Less-Developed Region, Public Policy, Higher Education, RIS3, Portugal, Centro, Policy Process
DOI: 10.3990/4.2535-5686.2019.03
RUNIN WP 14/2018 Maria Salomaa
Entrepreneurial Architecture in Rural Universities: The Case of Lincoln
Keywords: Entrepreneurial Architecture Framework, Third Mission, Rural University, Entrepreneurial University.
DOI: 10.3990/4.2535-5686.2018.14
RUNIN WP 06/ 2018 Lisa Nieth, Paul Benneworth, David Charles, Liliana Fonseca, Carlos Rodrigues, Maria Salomaa, & Martin Stienstra
Embedding entrepreneurial regional innovation ecosystems: Reflecting on the role of effectual entrepreneurial discovery processes
Keywords: entrepreneurial discovery, agency activation, partnerships, causal and effectual approaches
DOI: 10.3990/4.2535-5686.2018.06
RUNIN WP 04/2018 Rhoda Ahoba-Sam, Maria Salomaa & David Charles
On overcoming the barriers to regional engagement: Reflections from the University of Lincoln
Keywords: Universities, Innovation, Regional Development, Lincoln, United Kingdom.
DOI: 10.3990/4.2535-5686.2018.04
Contact details
Background
Maria holds a Masters degree in Administrative Science, study programme in Administration and Management of Higher Education (University of Tampere 2017). Her thesis focused on universities third mission in national higher education policies and selected case universities’ strategies. She also has BA and MA degrees in Theatre and Drama Research both from University of Tampere. As a part of her studies, she was an exchange student in Universite Charles-de-Gaulle Lille III (France) in 2006-2007 and she also did an internship at Makerere University (Uganda) in 2013.
Maria has previously worked in project management at University of Technology’s Research services, where she mainly focused on FP7 and H2020 projects (2015-2017), and at University of Tampere with national and international R&D projects in the field of culture (2007-2015).
