Monthly Archives: December 2019

Value Driven Design revisited: emerging modelling concepts and applications

Abstract Extended product warranties, leasing, and pay-per-use schemes are few examples of how manufacturing companies are shifting their focus from selling products to offering “solutions”, combining products and services to maximise customer value. The idea of optimising a system towards the best ‘value’ is both “intuitive and sensible”, and processes such as Value Driven Design […]

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STPs’ role as facilitators when innovation-advising organizations develop a common quality-assured innovation advising process

Abstract This study explores science and technology parks’ (STP) role as facilitators when an innovation advising organization network (IAON) within the health, social welfare, and medical technology sector (health-tech) develops a quality-assured innovation advising process (QAIP). The background is that more and more products using Industry 4.0 technology are being developed for the health-tech sector. […]

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Problems when creating innovation teams

Abstract This research explores problems occurring when practitioners use a research-based methodology regarding how to create high-performing innovation teams, namely the CIT-process, which has not been used by practitioners before. The CIT-process is recommended to be used prior to the ideation phase, which otherwise is considered to be the first phase in the innovation process. […]

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Congratulations Docent Alessandro Bertoni!

Alessandro Bertoni today held his trial lecture for appointment as Docent (Associate Professor) at Blekinge Institute of Technology. The lecture took the audience on a trip on how engineers have developed solutions to improve the world over the centuries, and why it is so relevant to apply and improve design methods and processes in our […]

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Welcome Roberto! A research exchange with data-driven PSS design in focus

Roberto Sala joins the Product Development Research Lab until the end of February 2020 to strengthen our research on data-driven decision-methods for PSS delivery. Roberto graduated in Management Engineering at Politecnico di Milano and is now a final year PhD student at the department of Department of Management, Information and Production Engineering at University of […]

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