3.6.2005: Mikko Välimäki's dissertation

Former HIIT researcher Mikko Välimäki defended successfully his doctoral thesis The Rise of Open Source Licensing. A Challenge to the Use of Intellectual Property in the Software Industry at the Helsinki University of Technology. The official opponent of the defence was Professor, PhD Thomas Riis from Copenhagen Business School, Denmark. Professsor Juha Laine acted as the custos. Completed at the Software Business and Engineering Laboratory at TKK, Välimäki's thesis was to a considerable degree based on his work in HIIT's MobileIPR and DE Core projects.