Yearly Archives: 2014

Urban Mining project with Stanford & Volvo CE

BTH and Stanford students are during autumn 2014 – spring 2015 working together on a project to develop a concept for Urban Mining. The project is part of the course “ME310 Global” (Stanford University, Mechanical Engineering) which aims to build students capabilities in design thinking by matching students with real life problems, and hence in […]

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Deepening collaboration with Chinese partners

BTH has over the years had long track record of international collaboration. One of the extensive country partners is China. Past week, Professor Tobias Larsson, and Associate Professor Sharon Kao-Walter. Tobias held keynotes on “Product-Service Systems” and “Needfinding” as guest professor at China Jiliang University in Hangzhou. Then both took part in the Global Partnership […]

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DESIGN METHODS AND FACTORS INFLUENCING THEIR UPTAKE IN PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT COMPANIES: A REVIEW

ABSTRACT Product development companies are under pressure to produce high quality products that satisfy requirements from different stakeholders including end-users. This requires them to improve the efficiency and effectiveness of their product development processes. Design methods are necessary to support these companies to improve their product development processes, and thereby in producing high quality products […]

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Innovation and products

In research, courses, projects and theses the results once and a while ends up in solutions that are of innovative character. Here we put on display some of the resulting innovations and products, and sometimes companies, that have been developed in close collaboration with researchers from the group. Cooperation is the word regarding this type […]

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