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International Conference on Engineering Design 2015

ICED was back to Italy this summer, 34 years after it kicked off in Rome in 1981. PDRL was well represented with 6 papers, covering a range of topics under the common denominator of supporting innovation and engineering activities “in real life”. See below for more info on our contributions to ICED’15.   MODEL BASED DECISION […]

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Book contribution

PhD candidate Babak Kianian, Professor Tobias Larsson, together with Sam Tavassoli (of Industrial Economics) will appear in the new book “Innovation and Entrepreneurship in the Global Economy – Knowledge, Technology and Internationalization” from Edward Elgar Publishing. The contribution is entitled “Manufacturing Renaissance: Return of Manufacturing to Western Countries”. S. Tavassoli, B. Kianian, T.C. Larsson. (2015) Manufacturing Renaissance: Return […]

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Volvo NIX

Urban Mining global innovation project with Stanford

Turning waste into value has been the topic of a global product development challenge for 11 students for the past year within the Stanford ME310 Global Design Innovation course. The innovation challenge was performed in collaboration with industrial partner Volvo Construction Equipment. The project culminated with a presentation at the prestigious Stanford EXPE. Seven final-year BTH students in […]

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10X Labs presentation

Exponential innovation workshop with 10X Labs & Ericsson

PDRL are Fellowship partners in 10X Labs, that aspire to create “a space, a culture & a method for building exponential innovation and solving the world’s most wicked problems”. Together with Ericsson, Volvo CE, Hyper Island, All Binary, BTH took part in an ideation event friday 17th. The event focused on ideation on problems of […]

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MOVE Workshop – Innovation workshop facilitation

 The MOVE framework is designed to help you plan an effective internal workshop to address the innovation capabilities within your group or company. MOVE is based on four dimensions of team innovation: Make, Observe, Visualize, and Engage. We talk about dimensions rather than phases because innovation is not a linear process. Use elements of each […]

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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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Ny nationell forskningsagenda inom flyg

NRIA Flyg är den svenska forsknings- och innovationsagendan för flyg med målsättningen att stärka förutsättningarna inom flygteknikområdet. Den är framtagen av representanter från företag, universitet/högskolor/institut, intresseorganisationer och myndigheter verksamma inom flygteknik. Agendan är i första hand ett dokument som uppdateras regelbundet. Men den är också en process, ett kontinuerligt arbete där de deltagande aktörerna skapar nödvändig samsyn kring och styrning av […]

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