Workshop – Product Development Research Lab

Sustainable and affordable products and services: A frugal innovation approach

1st December 2020
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A workshop on frugal innovation. Frugal innovations aim at doing more and better with less. It can be a low-tech clay fridge or a high-tech portable ultrasound medical device.

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BTH PDRL at the DESIGN’20 online conference

9th November 2020
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The pandemic situation put an effective hold on the physical venue in Dubrovnik where the 16th International DESIGN conference was planned before the summer. Now the biannual DESIGN event organised by the Design Society were forced into an online version instead. Being a main forum to exchange experiences and lessons learned about engineering design from […]

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Attractive Museum

6th November 2020
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Prisoner’s Dilemma as a Workshop Tool?

30th June 2018
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ABSTRACT Product lifecycles are shorter than ever and agile innovation processes and teams are being developed to meet challenging product lifecycle deadlines. Teaching how to create innovation teams is however shown to be both complex and time consuming, which is not optimal in a time where the business environment demands faster pace when innovating. This […]

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PDRL at the Workshop on Systems Engineering Education in the Nordic Countries

16th May 2017
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How do we educate our students to deal with the increasingly complex engineering challenges that they will meet in the future? As globalization and systems complexity are increasing, so need the quality of engineering education to continuously increase, to come closer and closer to the evolving industrial needs. The Workshop on Systems Engineering Education in […]

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2016 China-Sweden workshop of future intelligent endowment product innovation design

2nd November 2016
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How do we improve the life of elderly people by integrating smart products in their daily life? This was the topic of a 9 days workshop run in collaboration between BTH and China Jiliang University. Between October 17th and October 28th, Alessandro Bertoni, lecturer at BTH, was invited as keynote speaker and workshop moderator at […]

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Radical Innovation Workshop; Applied healthcare and wearables

28th October 2016
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Globally, healthcare is under great pressure as the population increases; we live longer. In 2020 there will be more than 7.6 billion people. If the trend continues, a large percentage have problems with health. More than 30 percent of the world population are exercising too little, 20 percent are overweight and 13 percent are 60 […]

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Unga “makers” när Språkskolan var på besök…

23rd May 2016
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Unga “makers” när Språkskolan var på besök i PDRLs makerspace

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Digital health technology workshop

13th September 2015
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SICAHT, QHelf and BTH arranged a workshop on digital health with focus on how technology may assist personal wellness

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LittleBits school workshop

22nd May 2015
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During a day, 9th grade kids were invited for an innovation workshop. Exploring efficiency (through assembling a torch faster and faster), planning, and innovation was the task at hand. Using littleBits, Lego Mindstorms, 3D printing and lowtech workshop material we explored the process of needfinding, ideation, and prototyping of solutions. Professor Tobias Larsson and PhD […]

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