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 sĺ mycket!

29.11.2009. 13:19