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%T Service trends and the forest-based sector – an analysis of wood construction, the bioeconomy and evolving product service systems
%A Pelli, Päivi
%D 2023
%J Dissertationes Forestales
%V 2023
%N 344
%R doi:10.14214/df.344
%U http://dissertationesforestales.fi/article/23010
%X <p>This thesis examines service trends in the operating environment of the forest-based sector on the level of companies and the evolving industrial production systems. The analytical framework is based on sociotechnical transitions research and service research knowledge bases on services and ongoing organizational changes in production and the markets. Three empirical studies have been conducted to detect service trends by investigating: 1) role of services in the European RDI roadmaps of the forest-based sector and parallel industries, 2) distribution of value and business model changes in the supply networks of industrial wood construction, and 3) market offerings and service innovation in sustainable housing construction projects in Finland. The empirical studies demonstrate evolving product service systems (PSS) in the further downstream customers of the forest-based sector, exemplified here by the construction sector. A game changing question for the forest-based sector is whether its industries and organizations focus on serving the PSS of today or whether they will seek to contribute to the next generation of PSS solutions, exemplified here by the potential for system change in construction regime. None of today’s PSS models alone capture the future PSS, but alternative scenarios are needed and assessment of their implications for the forest-based sector and future bioeconomy.</p>