Canan Keles
Aalto University, Finland
canan.keleskol@aalto.fi
(currently on maternity leave)
Canan Keles is a third-year doctoral researcher in Entrepreneurship at Aalto University School of Business, Finland. Her research examines how physical spaces function as resources for entrepreneurs, with a focus on post-industrial buildings converted to creative hubs.
Prior to her doctoral studies, Canan worked for over 10 years in business development and strategic planning. She holds an MSc in Marketing from Bilkent University, Turkey and a BSc in Political Science from Middle East Technical University, Turkey.
Her current research extends entrepreneurial bricolage theory to include spatial-cultural resources, using Kaapelitehdas (former Nokia cable factory) in Helsinki as a case study. Outside academia, Canan writes blogs about books, travel, and urban spaces, plays badminton, and counts Nikos Kazantzakis’s “Zorba the Greek” among her favorite reads.
