Seppo Poutanen

Seppo Poutanen is Senior Researcher and Docent of sociology at School of Economics of University of Turku, Finland. Seppo’s areas of expertise include social epistemology, social theory, sociology of science, methodology of social sciences and economic sociology. He has acted as Visiting Fellow in several universities abroad (e.g. Stanford University, LSE, UTS Business School). One of Seppo’s current research projects, with Professor Anne Kovalainen, focuses on the rise of entrepreneurial university. He has published his research in Social Epistemology, Critical Public Health, Journal of Critical Realism, Sociological Research Online, International Journal of Gender and Entrepreneurship and in several edited volumes.