Markku Salimaki
Director, International Design Business Management
Helsinki School of Economics (HSE)


Markku Salimaki, Dr. Sc. (Econ), M.Sc.(Eng), is the Director of the International Design Business Management IDBM Programme at the Helsinki School of Economics (HSE).

After graduation from Helsinki University of Technology (Industrial Management) in 1973 he worked in different managerial positions in the Finnish Ceramic and Glass Industry. Markku Salimaki left the industry in 1992 to start his doctoral studies at HSE and received his Licenciate Degree in 1996 on topic of "the Competitive Strategy of the Finnish Design Companies". The IDBM Programme was started in the beginning of 1995 and Markku Salimaki became the first coordinator and director of the programme.

Markku Salimaki defended his doctoral thesis and received the degree of Doctor of Science in 2003 at Helsinki School of Economics. The topic of Marku Salimaki's thesis was "The Competitive Strategy and the Internationalisation Process of the Finnish Design Companies. In 2007 Markku Salimaki was nominated as Visiting Professor at Kyoto Institute of Technology, Japan.

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