innovation

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Methods and Tools for Knowledge Sharing in Product Development

Abstract The emerging industrial business partnerships, which feature cross-functional and cross-company development efforts, raise the barrier for the establishment of effective knowledge sharing practices in the larger organization. This chapter aims to highlight the role of knowledge as a key enabler for effective engineering activities in the light of such emerging enterprise collaboration models. Knowledge Enabled Engineering (KEE) is presented...

  • September 13, 2011
Publication Research

Expanding the social dimension: Towards a knowledge base for product-service innovation

Research paper published in Proceedings of the 18th International Conference on Engineering Design. Abstract The extension of businesses to incorporate the provision of function as a service in supplement to standalone products is an ongoing movement in manufacturing industry. In short, this means that the development intent should be guided by the need of ‘performance in use’ that the customer...

  • August 15, 2011
BTH partner in SåNätt research project
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BTH partner in SåNätt research project

[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...

  • June 18, 2011
Product-Service Innovation workshop and panel session at 2011 World Student Environmental Summit
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Product-Service Innovation workshop and panel session at 2011 World Student Environmental Summit

[2011-05-20] From May 17-22 the World Student Environmental Summit took place at BTH in Karlskrona. WSES: “The World Student Environmental Summit (WSES) is a student-run convention on fundamental contemporary sustainability issues. It provides a platform for students all over the world to gather together to ask meaningful questions and create solutions towards alternative futures. Top-class personalities from science, humanities and...

  • May 21, 2011
Lean Innovation workshop at Landstinget Blekinge
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Lean Innovation workshop at Landstinget Blekinge

[2011-04-17]. A network workshop meeting for “Chefer och Ledare Blekinge” was March 17 held at Kompetenscentrum in Karlskrona. At  this occasion, Professor Tobias Larsson from Blekinge Institute of Technology, was invited to talk about his experiences from research and development in product development that may be beneficial for the County Council of Blekinge. Tobias”packaged” it as a “Lean Innovation” workshop and presented  the challenges to achieve profitability in the development and sale of aircrafts, and the way aerospace companies go about reducing costs, improving efficiency and adding...

  • May 16, 2011
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Measuring for Innovation – A Guide for Innovative Teams

White paper on measuring innovation team capability, with industrial cases. How do we know that we are innovative? This question was asked by a manager of a software development team with the explicit responsibility of creating and analyzing innovative product features before actual product development projects are started. Similar questions have been raised in many other organizations as innovation has...

  • May 14, 2011
Prof Larsson guest speaker at PROTEUS research center meeting
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Prof Larsson guest speaker at PROTEUS research center meeting

[20110322] PROTEUS – PROduct/service-system Tools for Ensuring User-oriented Service, is an innovation consortium at Danmarks Tekniske Universitet (DTU) with the aim “to enable (before, during and after sales) service delivery to be effectively integrated into product development and business creation in the maritime industry“. The drivers behind the research center is that Danish shipbuilders and manufacturers of marine equipment have...

  • March 23, 2011
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Towards open innovation practices in aerospace industry : challenges and opportunities

Research paper published in Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Research into Design, ICoRD’11. Abstract Across industrial settings and environmental conditions, innovation is viewed as a source of advancing firms’ competitive position. Recently, a shift has been witnessed from the traditional innovation model, which mainly focused on internal research and development (R&D) towards open innovation. In this study, we...

  • January 12, 2011
Mätinspiration i innovativa team
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Mätinspiration i innovativa team

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...

  • October 1, 2010
Measuring innovation capability in technology-focused development
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Measuring innovation capability in technology-focused development

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...

  • June 15, 2010