Duties
Research on circular economy policies, sustainability transitions and innovation policies.
Subject area
Research and expertise
- Circular economy
- Governance of circular economy on national and transnational scales
- Product policies and ecodesign
- Sustainable innovation policy
- Role of businesses in sustainability transitions
- Sustainable development policy and indicators
- Policy evaluation
- Interview research
Background
I am a researcher eager to find out how to tackle the complex sustainability challenges of our time. My research interests include the governance of sustainability transitions, geography of transitions, sustainable consumption and production as a part of sustainable development, and promoting systemic change with the circular economy.
I currently work as a researcher in the Circular economy solutions unit. I hold a Master of Science in geography (University of Turku, 2019) and I am a doctoral candidate in environmental sciences (University of Helsinki, 2021-).
Projects
- Challenge-led Innovation Policy, Geopolitical uncertainty and Security (CIPGeS)
- Towards Eco-Welfare State - Orchestrating for Systemic Impact (ORSI)
- European Topic Centre on Sustainability Transitions (ETC ST)
- Co-designing sustainability-oriented innovation policy: experiences, instruments and solutions (COSU)
Publications
Entsalo, H. (2026). Shifting the scales of sustainability transitions: Scalar strategies in national circular economy policies in Finland, France and the Netherlands. Environmental Innovation and Societal Transitions, 60.
Pihlajamaa, M. et al. (2026). Tensions in transforming an innovation policy paradigm: contextual variation and reflexive governance. Industrial and Corporate Change.
Kivimaa, P., & Entsalo, H. (2026). Synergies and tensions between decarbonisation, security and strategic autonomy in EU energy policy. Environmental Innovation and Societal Transitions, 59.
Kanger, L., Ghosh, B., & Entsalo, H. (2025). Integrated framework of intervention points and transformative outcomes for single-and multi-system transitions. Technological Forecasting and Social Change, 216.
Korhonen-Kurki, K., Horn, S., Entsalo, H., Turunen, T., D'Amato, D., Riechers, M., & Närhi, J. (2024). Leverage points for sustainability transformation: Identifying past and future changes in the Finnish (circular) plastic packing system. Ecological Economics, 219.
Entsalo, H., Kalimo, H., Kautto, P. & Turunen, T. (2023). Analysing regulatory instruments in sustainability transitions: A combined ‘intervention points’ and ‘roles of law’ approach to the European Union's Ecodesign framework. Sustainable Production and Consumption 42, 125-137.
Lazarevic, D., Salo, H. & Kautto, P. (2022). Circular economy policies and their transformative outcomes: The transformative intent of Finland's strategic policy programme. Journal of Cleaner Production 379.
Salo, H., Berg, A., Korhonen-Kurki, K. & Lähteenoja, S. (2022). Small wins enhancing sustainability transformations: Sustainable development policy in Finland. Environmental Science & Policy 128, 242-255.