Rimmler, Thomas

M.Sc. (Agr. & For.), Researcher

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Expertise

• forest sector and the national economy
• numeric general equilibrium models
• input output models
• economics of small-scale biofuel heating plans
• German forest sector
• productivity measuring

Research Projects

Current

• Coordination of PUU-programme
  
• Promotion of wood in construction sector value networks
  
• Russia as an operational environment for forest sector and as a market competitor for forest industries
  

Former

• Allowable cut, private forest owner's timber management strategies and underutilization of timber resources
  
• Business networks, innovation and new product and service concepts in wood products industries of the building construction value chain
  
• Energy wood resources and potential location of heating plants in Northern Savo
  
• Information technology and the forest sector
  
• Knowledge management in wood processing industries, business networks and entrepreneurship toimprove the use of regional and local forestry resources
  
• Official tasks of wood measuring
  
• Success factors of wooden house and other woodworking firms in a changing competitive environment
  
• The long-term strategies of the Finnish forest sector
  

Contacts

Keywords: energetic utilization of wood, forest sector, national economy, productivity measuring