[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...
Ola Isaksson, Tobias Larsson, Marcus Sandberg and Johanna Wallin contributed to the national aero space congress Flygteknik 2010 that was held Oct 18-19, in Stockholm. Carl Cederström. Aviation celebrates 100 years in Sweden 100 years have now passed since Baron Carl Cederström flue an airplane in Sweden. To acknowledge this achievement and emphasize the importance of retaining a continuously strong...
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 brief published in Management of Technology. Abstract De flesta människor skriver nog under på att devisen ”man får vad man mäter” är sann. Mätning är konkret och genom mätetal sätts mål som sedan följs upp. Mätning skapar handling. Lika sant för företag är att innovation i betydelsen att utveckla och lansera produkter och tjänster som når framgång på marknaden...
2010-09: At the Nordic Conference on Robotics & Automation 20-21’st of October at the Scandinavian Technical Fair, Professor Tobias is an invited keynote speaker. He will address challenges in increasing the value in the Swedish product development system.
On September 8th-10th Tobias Larsson, Marco Bertoni and Alessandro Bertoni attended the fourth EU FP7 CRESCENDO WP2.2 physical meeting hosted by Rolls Royce in Derby, UK. The meeting has been the occasion to summarize and discuss the latest achievements in the area of Value Driven Design and Value modelling with researchers and industrial experts from Volvo Aero, AIRBUS, Rolls-Royce UK,...
The Division of Functional Product Development recently co-organized a two-day course in Strategic Sustainable Development and two days of workshops on Sustainable Innovation – gathering a total of over 100 participants. The events were held in Manaus, the capital of the state of Amazon, Brazil. As part of an ongoing collaboration between Blekinge Institute of Technology (BTH) and Universidade Federal...
Research paper published in Proceedings of the 17th International Product Development Management Conference IPDM. Abstract Product development in the aerospace industry is associated with relatively long lead times and product lifecycles, which means that it takes years and even decades to find out if a novel product or technology concept fully realizes its potential and becomes an innovation on the...
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,...
