In the international masters programme in Sustainable Product-Service System Innovation, MSPI there is project course with live industrial projects; PSS Extreme Innovation. For 4 months the students team up with companies to work on their challenges, trying to deliver innovative solutions to their challenges. The course is focused on, together with externa partner, carrying out a product-service system innovation project with...
How do we know that we are innovative? During the National Conference on Industrial Economics, INDEK’11, Professor Tobias Larsson held a session on “Measuring Innovation in Industrial Environment”. Participants in the session were, besides Tobias Larsson; Fredrik Nilsson (Associate Professor Design Sciences, Lund Unviersity), Niclas Nillroth (Global Director, Environmental Care & Safety, Volvo Construction Equipment), Johanna Wallin (Innovation Capability, Volvo...
For the last three days, Volvo Construction Equipment gathered their global innovation coaches (iCoaches) for a yearly meeting in Eskilstuna headquarters. During this event BTH took part within the boundaries of a new innovation research project with BTH and delivered inspirational talks and practical workshops. Professor Tobias Larsson (project leader of the innovation project) talked about ambidextrous organizations and how...
[20110618] A light car consumes less fuel and uses less material in manufacturing. SAAB Automobile, together with academic and industrial partners, have started a new project where BTH takes part. SåNätt (from classic Saab Sonett) is a suitable name given the direction of the project – focus on resource efficiency with sustainable development in mind. It is both about the...
Research paper published in Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Research into Design, ICoRD’11. Abstract In recent years there has been a growing interest among product development organizations to capitalize on engineering knowledge as their core competitive advantage for innovation. Capturing, storing, retrieval and sharing of engineering knowledge from a wide range of enterprise memory systems has become crucial...
[20101220] Johan Wenngren (PhD candidate of Tobias Larsson) on December 20 presented his Licentiate thesis “Teambased Innovation – early problem setting activities in engineering design” in the research subject Functional Product Development. Johan is part of the research project ProViking THINK (Teams for Heterogeneous Innovation Knowledge) and he describes different innovation processes in his thesis. He has focused the technical...
Within the PIEp research programme the research project on “Measuring Innovation in Teams – MINT” has focused important metrics to understand if teams are performing in terms of their innovation task at hand. An important and, according to the workshop attendance, very interesting area since the result of innovation efforts come when product/service hit the market and that might be...
Research paper published in International Journal of Technology Intelligence and Planning. Abstract In this paper, a Remote Technology Management (RTM) solution is presented for the purpose of elaborating on how it can bring about opportunities for new innovative services in the automotive winter testing industry. The idea is to visualise how service providers can go from a product focus to...
Research paper published in Proceedings of the 17th International Product Development Management Conference IPDM. Abstract A company’s ability to successfully introduce radically new products and services is a key success factor for sustaining competitive advantage. This is particularly true for the automotive industry, where smaller manufacturers with niche products struggle to compete with the large-scale efforts of their bigger competitors,...
Professor Tobias Larsson has been a member of the core team behind the recently released national research agenda in aeronautics, “NRA Flyg 2010”, which includes concrete targets for 2020 and 2040 as well as prioritized research areas in aeronautical engineering – both nationally and internationally. NRA Flyg 2010 is the result of a unique collaboration where companies, academia and institutes...
