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Embracing risk to pursue product innovation in automotive industry
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Embracing risk to pursue product innovation in automotive industry

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,...

  • June 15, 2010
PSS innovation – Discussing knowledge based tools
Publication Research

PSS innovation – Discussing knowledge based tools

Research paper published in Proceedings of 2nd CIRP IPS2 Conference 2010 – Industrial product-service systems (IPS²). Abstract Product-Service systems (PSS) introduce the alternative for manufacturing firms to address sustainability in early development. In aeronautic industry, sustainability is an issue that challenges the innovation capabilities. The question if engineering tools and software are apt to manage innovation aspects guides the study...

  • April 15, 2010
Publication Research

People, Product and Process Perspectives on Product/Service-System Development

Book chapter published in “Introduction to Product/Service-System Design”. Abstract The adaptation of Product/Service-System calls for new development models. On one side this businesses give the manufacturing firm possibilities to redesign, upgrade and replace the discrete device that provides the performance their customers are asking for. On the other side, this new situation has to address aspects that are normally not...

  • September 14, 2009
Project Research

ProViking THINK – Teams for Heterogeneous Innovation Knowledge | 2008-2012

 Project summary The concept of product-service system (PSS), or functional product development, will be a main component in a future sustainable society. A PSS paradigm will, not only, change the use of products and services, but also the development approaches. This since the responsibility of the physical artefact throughout the life-cycle is remaining with the providing enterprise. The perspectives of...

  • September 30, 2008
Publication Research

Rethinking virtual teams for streamlined development

Abstract   Keywords Reference Larsson, A., T. Larsson, O. Isaksson, N. Bylund (2008), Rethinking virtual teams for streamlined development. In: Virtual technologies : concepts, methodologies, tools, and applications. / ed. Jerzy Kisielnicki. Information Science Reference, 2008. 19 p. Download paper Buy book from Amazon: http://www.amazon.com/Virtual-Technologies-Concepts-Methodologies-Applications/dp/1599049554/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1209649390&sr=1-2 Rethinking virtual teams for streamlined development  

  • May 14, 2008
Innovation News Press

Tobias makes the final four

Professor Tobias Larsson is one of four finalists in the national competition “Technology Star 2008”, arranged by Dagens Teknik magazine. In “Dagens Teknik” (w.16, April 16, 2008), Professor Tobias Larsson is presented as one of four finalists in the magazine’s national competition “Teknikstjärnan” (Technology Star), which is a search for people who are doing important work in the technical domain...

  • April 16, 2008