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Researchers join the SPIRIT Programme with a focus on Digital Twin Technology 

PhD students Carl Toller Melén and Raj Jiten Machchhar, together with Prof. Tobias Lasson as their mentor from Blekinge Tekniska Högskola (BTH), have been selected to participate in the SPIRIT (Swedish Programme for Innovative Researchers Impact Training) Programme, a national initiative designed to train researchers in the commercial utilization of their research. The programme, which focuses on translating academic work into real-world applications, is a...

  • September 12, 2024
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Big thinking in Blekinge: How do you build a Moonshot?

To celebrate the fact that the Building Moonshot book was released the event “Big Thinking in Blekinge” was held with Blue Science Park and Blekinge Institute of Technology as organisers. Authors Tamara Carleton and  William R. Cockayne, both researchers and senior lecturers at Product Development Research Lab / Mechanical Engineering, started out with sharing nuggets and insights from the book with the crowd of physical and virtual attendees.

  • May 12, 2023
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Wrapping up the Elektrifierad Infrastrukturbyggnation project

The “Elektrifierad Infrastrukturbyggnation” was a feasibility study conducted in close collaboration between Volvo Construction Equipment, Lund University and Blekinge University of Technology, funded by the Swedish Transport Administration. It aimed at investigating the conditions for carrying out major infrastructure projects emission- and fossil-free. The E20-Vårgårda-Bälinge road section was chosen as main case study in the project.

  • March 21, 2022
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ReGlove slutar topp 20 i James Dyson Award och vinner Sparbanksstiftelsen Kronans Jubileumsstipendium

ReGlove-projektet var under lång tid med i tävlingen James Dyson Award 2020 med sin lösning som att återtillverka engångsplasthandskar från förbrukade handskar. När året nu närmar sig sitt slut kan vi sammanfatta att projektet slutade i topp-20 i konkurrens med mer än 1800 bidrag världen över, det enda svenska laget som nådde den sista omgången av tävlingen. Studenterna vann också...

  • December 23, 2020
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Sustainable and affordable products and services: A frugal innovation approach

A seminar and workshop for companies, NGOs and public organisations in Sweden. Frugal innovations aim at doing more and better with less. It can be a low-tech clay fridge or a high-tech portable ultrasound medical device. Regardless of technological sophistication and maturity, frugal innovations are perfectly suitable in a low resource setting where solutions need to be affordable, with substantial...

  • December 1, 2020
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Design of Product–Service Systems: Toward an Updated Discourse

Abstract The engineering rationale, composed of established logic for the design and development of products, has been confronted by a shift to a circular economy. Digitalization (e.g., Industry 4.0) enables transformation, but it also increases relational complexities in scope and number. In Product–Service Systems (PSSs), the combination of manufactured goods and services should be delivered in new business models based...

  • November 11, 2020
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Världen är full av problem som behöver lösas

Jenny Elfsberg valde att studera till ingenjör för att hon är nyfiken helt enkelt. Och nyfikenheten tog henne till drömjobbet som ansvarig för Volvos innovationscentrum i Silicon Valley. – Jag valde att läsa till ingenjör mest för att jag är nyfiken. Jag har alltid ifrågasatt och velat lära mig nya saker, berättar Jenny.

  • April 8, 2020
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Orbit One startar unikt projekt inom innovation

Orbit Ones företagskultur präglas av att ständigt utmana och ifrågasätta invanda mönster och sanningar för att därigenom utvecklas och skapa mervärde. I jakten på värdeskapande tar vi nu ett helt nytt steg när vi startar upp Orbit X, ett unikt utvecklingsprojekt inom innovation https://static1.squarespace.com/static/58119fe2e6f2e1092a45cda4/t/5e380e5c999500620929e3f7/1580732008719/Inside+Orbit+One+FEB-2020_SWE.pdf

  • February 16, 2020