Monthly Archives: October 2023

Panelsamtal “343 år av innovation i världsarvet Örlogstaden Karlskrona”

Utmaningar föder kreativitet och kreativitet skapar innovationer. Detta har varit Karlskronas styrka sedan staden grundades år 1680. Den 26 oktober hölls ett panelsamtal om världsarvets historia av innovation och dess koppling till dagens utmaningar och utveckling. Paneldeltagare var: Tobias Larsson, Professor i Produktutveckling på Blekinge Tekniska Högskola; Ivar Wenster, byggnadsantikvarie och verkställande direktör för Ankdammen […]

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Collaborative Value Exploration for Early Product-Service Systems Design: A Group Model Building Approach

Abstract As manufacturing firms move from pure product-based business models toward Product-Service Systems offerings, value creation becomes more complex and requires more active cross-disciplinary collaboration. Especially non-functional values, those connected to the overall PSS behavior, depend on the successful alignment and coordination between perspectives. However, understanding the value creation itself, particularly among different departments or […]

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Creating a Work Culture for Team Innovation and Imagination

ABSTRACT How do you create the conditions for innovation within an organization to truly unleash the imagination of teams? This chapter considers the real-world human factors and conditions that our experience has shown as critical for lasting positive shifts to happen in organizational culture. We present an organizational model for shifting innovation culture, highlighting several […]

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Tamara on women top 50 list!

Tamara Carleton is recognised in the American “Women We admire” magazine, in their Top 50 Women Leaders in Education of 2023. Tamara is a professor at the department of mechanical engineering at BTH, among other things Sharing       

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Comparison of mechanical properties of various joining processes of aluminum-titanium light alloy

Abstract 5A06 aluminum alloy and TA1 titanium alloy were selected for the connection tests of flow drill screw, ultrasonic clinch and ultrasonic self-piercing riveting. The influence of plate overlap methods on mechanical properties of each group of joints was studied by static tensile tests. The results show that the mechanical properties of the flow drill […]

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