Creativity Day

The PIEp Cognitive Aspects of Innovation CIG is pleased to announce that Peter Österberg will give a one day lecture and exercise about creativity on Thursday 8th April 2010!

Creativity is an inborn quality and humans are keen to discover new solutions to problems they encounter if the cultural setting allows them to. Creativity is the first step for every innovative process, and the prime tool for people with an entrepreneurial ambition.

Taking place at KTH, this is the first joint activity between PhD candidates from two national research schools, Faculty D and PIEp, with a common interest in innovation and creativity. It is also an attempt to establish "the House of creativity/innovation learning" as a common platform for experimental research and future collaboration between the two research schools.

All are welcome to attend. RSVP to magnus.eneberg@design.lth.se by 31st March. Click here for your invitation!

19.03.2010. 12:48

Innovation In Mind

Innovation in Mind/European Innovation Conference
Lund 16-17 September, 2009

In September 2009, Lund University held a well-attended innovation conference, giving several graduate students from the PIEp Research School the opportunity to listen to world-leading innovation researchers! Areas discussed included everything from open and user-driven innovation to social and financial innovation, with speakers including Henry Chesbrough, Eric Von Hippel and Nobel Laureate Kary B Mullis.

In addition to innovation, researchers, experts and practitioners from a variety of industries participated. Two exciting days with interesting speakers, but above all the opportunity to establish new contacts with other researchers and practitioners in the innovation field.
More details from the conference could be found at:
http://www.innovationinmind.se/
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Magnus Olsson, PIEp Research School
PhD Candidate
Lund University, Department of Design Sciences
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02.02.2010. 12:02

PIEp 2009 Annual Event

93 people attended PIEp's 2009 Annual Event, which took place at Scania in Södertälje on Tuesday 24th November! The day kicked off with a Behind the Scenes Tour of Innovation at Scania, including the famous 'Pulsen'.

The afternoon opened with a warm welcome from PIEp's Chairman Hasse Johansson, Executive Vice President for R&D at Scania. PIEp's Director Sofia Ritzén went on to introduce a series of talks by PIEp People:

PIEp Bullet PIEp People and Projects for Innovation Capability
PIEp Director, Sofia Ritzén (KTH)

PIEp Bullet Needs Driven Innovation: Students’ Experiences From Rural Namibia
PIEp Masters Students Jannicke Burelius and Heléne Ernow (KTH)

PIEp Bullet PIEp Research School: Networking! Making Research Education Exciting
PIEp PhD Student Ernesto Gutierrez (KTH)

PIEp Bullet PIEp Learning Network Research: Open Interaction for User Involvement in Innovation
by Annika Olsson, PIEp Research Coordinator - presented by PIEp Researcher Per Odenrick (LTH)

PIEp Bullet PIEp's Innovation MarketPlace
PIEp Collaboration Coordinator Tobias Larsson (LTU)

PIEp Bullet PIEp + CDR: Competitive Collaboration through Design Thinking
PIEp International partner Larry Leifer (Head of Centre for Design Research, Stanford University)

This year's theme of Open Innovation was addressed by invited speakers, giving their experiences of the opportunities and obstacles involved:

PIEp Bullet Using Open Innovation ideas to untap the internal innovation potential?
Mats Magnusson, new PIEp professor at KTH

PIEp Bullet Open innovation: a Challenge to Scania
Hasse Johansson, Executive Vice President R&D Scania

PIEp Bullet Agile Innovation: How TAT Works with Innovation
Hampus Jakobsson, co-founder of TAT, The Astonishing Tribe

PIEp Bullet The Use of Innovation Intermediaries at SCA
Bengt Järrehult, SCA Innovation Manager

PIEp Bullet Openness – the Innovation Strategy of Sony Ericsson: Findings and Insights
Susanna Bill, PIEp PhD Student and former Innovation Manager for Sony Ericsson

A thought provoking Panel Discussion followed the talks, compered by CTMH Node Leader Bertil Guve. Discussions continued over a delicious dinner in Scania's Marcus Wallenberg Hallen restaurant.

The Event rounded off with the presentations of the PIEp Best Master Thesis Student Projects Awards. PIEp's Education Coordinator Martin Grimheden and PIEp Board member Mats Berglund introduced the best project from each node, and Hasse Johansson presented each student - and their supervisor - with a framed PIEp certificate and a watch (hand picked by Mats Berglund!). More information about these student projects is available on the PIEp Students homepage.

Click here to see the PIEp Annual Event 2009 Slideshow! (note: there are 55 photos in pdf format and hence quite a large file, so possibly slow.)

We would like to say a big Thank You to all who took part and made the day such a great success...

...Tack så mycket!

29.11.2009. 13:19

Licentiate Defense (Lars Löfqvist)

Innovation and Design Processes in Small Established Companies
Lars Löfqvist, a graduate student in PIEp's Research School, will defend his dissertation on Friday November 20 at 10 am. This will take place in Lekrummer, Lindstedts väg 30, KTH Campus. Dr Anna Öhrvall Rönnbäck from Linköping University is Lars' opponent.

The dissertation is entitled "Innovation and Design Processes in Small Established Companies". Lars is a graduate student at the University of Gävle and examined at KTH.
All are welcome to attend!

(If you would like your own copy of the thesis, please contact Lars Löfvist (Lars.Lofqvist @ hig.se).

18.11.2009. 19:51

PIEp Teachers Network Workshop

There will be a PIEp Teachers Network Workshop taking place in Umeå on Tuesday 2nd and Wednesday 3rd June 2009.
For your invitation and to see the provisional programme, please see: PIEp Teachers Network Workshop Program

18.05.2009. 13:10

CIG Lecture eng

PIEp Research School and the CIG ‐ Cognitive Aspects of Innovation ‐ proudly presents:
Marianne Döös “Competence and Learning in Organizations” 20th of March, 10.00‐12.00 Place: room B430, KTH Machine Design, Brinellvägen 85, Stockholm For more information, please see the PIEp Research School Website.

18.03.2009. 13:31

Comptence & Learning in Organisations

PIEp Research School and the CIG ‐ Cognitive Aspects of Innovation ‐ proudly presents Marianne Döös "Competence and Learning in Organisations" 20th of March, 10-12 Place: KTH, Stockholm (room to be decided) More information about Marianne Döös and the lecture is to be found in the enclosed pdf and at the PIEp Research School Website. Please let us know if you wish to participate. Send an email not later then the 6th of March to: magnus.olsson@design.lth.se. See this Invitation for more information.

18.02.2009. 15:17

PIEp Annual Event: 25th November 2008

Click here to see some of the presentations from the Annual Event, which took place at KTH.

* Welcome, Margareta Norell Bergendahl
* Launch of the PIEp Book "Innovationsförmåga"!, Annika Olsson
(Order your copy of the book here)
* PIEp Education Activities 2008, by Martin Grimheden
* Atmospheric Water Generation
* Corona
* Exjobb research projects
* PIEp: Results and Future, Sofia Ritzen

The event was well attended - photos will be available here shortly!

19.01.2009. 01:03