The core research areas of the doctoral programme include Optimization, Decision Analysis, Behavioral Decision Making, Efficiency Analysis, Foresight and Innovation Management, Portfolio Decision Analysis, Modeling and Simulation, Multiobjective Optimization, Systems Thinking, Systems Intelligence, Environmental Management, Climate Policy, Game Theory, Neuroeconomics, e-Commerce, Negotiations, Soft Computing, Real Option Valuation.

The supervising professors of the doctoral programme are internationally renowned scholars. Many of them have received significant scientific awards and established themselves in the editorial staffs of leading journals. They provide a strong network for doctoral education. The doctoral programme's advisory board is a link and a discussion forum between economic life and public administration and the doctoral programme and deepens collaboration between researchers and end-users of research.

Research of highest standards, internationality and doctoral students' active participation in research projects are key principles of the programme.

Participating groups and institutions:

• Systems Analysis Laboratory, Aalto University School of Science, coordinating unit
• Institute of Strategy, Aalto University School of Science
• Subjects of Management Science and Quantitative Methods of Economics and Management Science, Department of Information and Service Economy, Aalto University School of Economics
• Research Group in Industrial Optimization, Department of Mathematical Information Technology, University of Jyväskylä
• Turku Optimization Group, Department of Mathematics, University of Turku
• Institute for Advanced Management Systems Research, Åbo Akademi University

To get more information on the doctoral programme, please contact
the director of the doctoral programme: Prof. Raimo P. Hämäläinen, tel: +358-9-470 2 3054, email: forename@tkk.fi or
the coordinator of the doctoral programme: Antti Punkka, tel. +358-9-470 2 5885, email: forename.surname@tkk.fi