Volvo CE Specialist & iCoach days 2015
The yearly gathering of global innovation coaches (iCoaches) and specialists took place for some days in Eskilstuna
Volvo Construction Equipment
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”.
Urban Mining global innovation project with Stanford
Turning waste into value has been the topic of a global product development challenge for 11 students for the past year within the Stanford ME310 Global Design Innovation course. The innovation challenge was performed in collaboration with industrial partner Volvo Construction Equipment. The project culminated with a presentation at the prestigious Stanford EXPE.
STOSIP – Strategic, Tactical and Operational implementation of Sustainability into the Innovation Process | 2015-2018
The objective of STOSIP is to support manufacturing companies to integrate and implement sustainability on strategic, tactical and operational levels in the company in order to be able to bring forward sustainable innovations, creating competitive advantages and increased value to its customers. Integration and implementation is enhanced with the ability...
Exponential innovation workshop with 10X Labs & Ericsson
PDRL are Fellowship partners in 10X Labs, that aspire to create “a space, a culture & a method for building exponential innovation and solving the world’s most wicked problems”. Together with Ericsson, Volvo CE, Hyper Island, All Binary, BTH took part in an ideation event friday 17th. The event focused...
Becoming An Innovative Company: Assessing An Organization’s Innovation Capability From The Perspective Of A Team
Research paper published in the 15th International CINet Conference, in Budapest, Turkey, 2014. Abstract Literature points out the need for companies to innovate continuously. Such need requires that companies develop capacities to exploit and improve current work as well as to develop and explore more radical opportunities. This paper is...
Vi lever i ett tillstånd av accelererad förändring
Artikel med Prof Tobias Larsson om framtidens innovationsmiljöer, uppföljningsartikel på Blekinge X Labs expo på Näringslivsdagen. (Affärsliv 20141113, författare Jan Hinderson) Ladda ner PDF.
Model Driven Development and Decision Support | 2013-
This project will in co-production mode develop, disseminate, and integrate relevant, user-friendly and efficient support methods and tools for sustainable product-service system innovation into business leaders, business developers and product developers working environments that enable and inspire industry to thrive in the changing global context. Manufacturing companies have traditionally focused...
Impacts of project-overload on innovation inside organizations: Agent-based modeling
Research paper published in The International Innovation and Technology Conference, ICTI2012 in Venice, Italy. Abstract Market competition and a desire to gain advantages on globalized market, drives companies towards innovation efforts. Project overload is an unpleasant phenomenon, which is happening for employees inside those organizations trying to make the most...
Measuring Innovation in Teams – MINT | 2011-
2011- (ongoing) Objectives: Innovation capability is important for industrial companies today in order to be competitive on the market. But the questions are first, how can the current state of innovation capability be known? And second, what need to be undertaken to increase the innovative performance? These were the guiding questions behind this...