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Volvo CE Specialist & iCoach days 2015

The yearly gathering of global innovation coaches (iCoaches) and specialists took place for some days in Eskilstuna. The Munktell Museum provided an excellent back-drop, and inspiration, with the 180 year industrial history behind Volvo Construction Equipment. The BTH research team of Professor Tobias Larsson, and Assistant Professor Christian Johansson (boosted also with entrepreneur Sebastian Sjöberg) supported VCE within […]

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A virtual turbine module demonstrator for aircraft engines

Aircraft engines are complex systems built by modules and components whose perfect coordination grants the safety and the performances of any aircraft. Bringing innovation in such a system is a complex and critical task that needs to be enabled by the right methods and technologies. The capability of virtually testing new ideas instead of recurring […]

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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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Designing with Priorities and Thresholds for Health Care Heterogeneity

Research paper published at International Conference on Engineering Design, ICED 2015, Design for Life, Milan, Italy, 27-30 July, 2015. Abstract Designing systems working in health care needs complying with the heterogeneous, overlapping, non-overlapping, competing, or even contradicting requirements expressed by the various actors of the health care complex environment, including regulatory bodies. The unification method […]

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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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Andre Benaim presented his Licentiate thesis

June 12, Andre Benaim, PhD candidate in Innovation Engineering, presented his Licentiate thesis. The title of the thesis is: “Innovation Capabilities – Measurement and Assessment“. Minna Saunila of Lappeenranta University of Technology was the licentiate opponent and delivered an enjoyable session for the audience. Andre started out by presenting his work for some 40 minutes, whereafter Minna continued […]

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Research Funding | 2 ECTS | PhD Course

Next course start November 2022. Application declaring your intention to participate and a short abstract of your research profile to grantsoffice@bth.se before October 1, 2022. Target groups (20 seats): 1 ) PhD students, preferably in their second half of doctoral studies 2) Post docs, if seats are available, are also welcomed. Background Learning how to plan, market […]

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Expanding Value Driven Design to meet Lean Product Service Development

ABSTRACT The paper presents a discussion about gaps and opportunities for cross-pollination between Value Driven Design and Lean Product Service Development to promote the use of value-driven method and tools since the preliminary design stages. In particular the paper discusses how methods and tools developed in Value Driven Design have the potential to be applied […]

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