
Research Interests
- Open Service Innovation
- Service Innovation
- Open Innovation
- Public Organisation
- Private Organisation
Background
Ruusa Ligthart joined the IfM in October 2017 under the supervision of Professor Tim Minshall. Ruusa holds a Master’s degree in tourism management from the University of Brighton. She graduated in 2008 with overall grade distinction. Prior to her masters studies, she worked in the field of hospitality and tourism management and in advisory positions in several countries. She has also worked as a senior lecturer at universities of applied sciences in Finland. Prior her PhD studies she worked at the RDI unit at the Laurea University of Applied Sciences as a education service product manager and project manager working with RDI projects together with various firms, 3rd sector, universities and other research organisations.
Her PhD focus on how are public and private organisations developing open service innovation.

- Institute for Manufacturing
- 17 Charles Babbage Road
- Cambridge CB3 0FS
Research
- Asset Management
- Business Model Innovation
- Complex Additive Materials
- Design Management
- Digital Manufacturing
- Distributed Information & Automation Laboratory
- Fluids in Advanced Manufacturing
- Healthcare
- Industrial Photonics
- Industrial Resilience
- Industrial Sustainability
- Inkjet Research
- Innovation and Intellectual Property
- International Manufacturing
- Manufacturing Analytics
- Manufacturing Industry Education Research
- NanoManufacturing
- Science, Technology & Innovation Policy
- Strategy and Performance
- Technology Enterprise
- Technology Management
- Service Alliance
- University Commercialisation and Innovation Policy Evidence Unit