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New book “Inventing the Almost Impossible”

Our researchers Tamara Carleton and William Cockayne, together with Shaun West (Lucerne University of Applied Sciences and Art) have now launched the new book “Inventing the Almost Impossible – Creating, Teaching, Funding, and Leading Radical Innovation” (SPRINGER: https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-031-36224-8). The book offers practice and policy insights into innovation design by gathering an intergenerational and interdisciplinary set […]

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Big thinking in Blekinge: How do you build a Moonshot?

To celebrate the fact that the Building Moonshot book was released the event “Big Thinking in Blekinge” was held with Blue Science Park and Blekinge Institute of Technology as organisers. Authors Tamara Carleton and  William R. Cockayne, both researchers and senior lecturers at Product Development Research Lab / Mechanical Engineering, started out with sharing nuggets […]

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“Pricka soptunnan” dagens innovationsutmaning!

Bastasjö Friskola åk 5 var på besök med 25 kids som var sugna på förstå mer kring teknikens möjligheter. Under en session i makerspacet fick de av Professor Tobias Larsson en kortare inblick i hur teknikutvecklingen har gett människan en bättre tillvaro, men också vilka problem och utmaningar det fört med sig, främst kring miljön. Sharing       

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IDEA challenge – PhD Hackathon 2022

Three of our PhD students participated in the second running of the IDEA challenge – PhD Hackathon 2022. It is an event where groups of PhD students from several universities compete in a 4-day engineering design challenge. This year gathered teams from BTH, University of Bristol, NTNU of Trondheim, Aalto University, and University of Zagreb. […]

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Frugal-IDeM: An Integrated Methodology for Designing Frugal Innovations in Low-Resource Settings

Abstract People living in low-resource settings at the base of the world income pyramid (i.e. Base of the Pyramid — BOP) face several constraints. To satisfy their unmet needs, integrated frugal innovations are necessary. Several studies, discussed using many names such as ‘design for Base of the Pyramid’, ‘design for development’, ‘product service systems’, ‘frugal […]

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