Innovation Capability at Scania
Project leader:
Katarina Lund
Time period:
2010-2014
Email:
kalund @ kth.se
Project description:
Innovation Capability at Scania.pdf
The purpose of the project is to investigate how a number of factors (such as work methods, the product development process, group climate, organisation and available resources) affect the innovation capability in large organisations.
07.06.2010. 19:06
Decisions Dynamics
Project leaders:
Jens Hemphäla and Ernesto Gutierrez
Time period:
2010-2013
Emails:
hemphala @ kth.se and
egut @md.kth.se
Project description:
Decisions Dyanamics.pdf (currently only available in Swedish)
The purpose of the project is to contribute to a deeper understanding of the decision making dynamic.
07.06.2010. 18:59
IDRE Projects:
There are currently 7 research students engaged in medtech projects as part of IDRE, an initiative developed by PIEp with the purpose of developing research education into innovation driven research education. Combining innovation in medical technology research with understanding business potential relating to branch specific requirements - a technical scientific problem coupled with an idea for business potential.
IDRE Phase 1 involves 9 doctoral projects with the common theme of MedTech.
Read more about the IDRE MedTech projects at:
http://www.piep.se/idre.php
19.04.2010. 12:51
Planning for Innovation within Product Service Systems
Project leader:
Johanna Wallin
Time period:
2009-2013
Email:
johanna.wallin@volvo.com
Project description:
Planning for Innovation within Product Service Systems.pdf
This project studies the situation where “traditional” manufacturing industries undergo a transition that means integrating services into the traditional product
concept. As the traditional “borders” between services, software and hardware vanish, questions arise about how to plan, develop and produce integrated product service concepts. The purpose is to thoroughly understand the new way of working and develop/validate techniques to use for planning innovation in Product Service Systems (PSS).
(as shown in Project Portfolio Nov'09)08.12.2009. 15:59
Barriers as Enablers
Project leader:
Susanne Nilsson
Time period:
2009-2013
Email:
snilsson@sjm.com
Project description:
Barriers as enablers – Improving innovation capability in organisations.pdf
The purpose of the project is to contribute to a deeper understanding of how organisations improve/develop their innovation capability.
(as shown in Project Portfolio Nov'09)
29.10.2009. 16:09
Concept Decision Making
Project leader:
Ingrid Kihlander
Time period:
2007-2011
Email:
ingrid@md.kth.se
Project Description:
Concept Decisions.pdf
The project is an industrial research student project aiming for new working methods in the concept development phase, specifically focusing on concept decisions.
Involved partners are: KTH and Volvo Cars
16.01.2009. 00:14
Individual Innovation Capability
Project leader:
Anders Berglund
Time period:
2007-2011
Email:
andersb@md.kth.se
Project description:
IndivInnovCap.pdf
The purpose of the project is to design higher education methods which will increase the innovation capability of individuals.
Involved partners to date are: KTH, Electrolux, Anytec Marine AB, Komatsu Forest, Arjo Scandinavia AB.
(as shown in Project Portfolio Nov'09)
16.01.2009. 00:09
Design methods
Project leaders:
Lisbeth Svengren-Holm and
Magnus Eneberg
Time period:
2007-2011
Email:
lisbeth.svengren@fek.su.se
magnus.eneberg@design.lth.se
Project descriptions:
DesignMethods.pdf,
INGO.pdf
The Design Methods project set out to look at how collaboration efforts between design consultancies and SME:s can increase the strategic growth of both parties.
Subproject: INGO – Innovation Capability and Growth (runs 08.03.01-12.03.31)
Project members: Lisbeth Svengren Holm (project manager), Magnus Eneberg (PhD Candidate)
Partners: LTH, SVID, Tillväxtgruppen Norra Västmanland, Transformator, Ergonomidesign, Zenith, Propeller, Cliff Design, NoPicnic, Myra Industriell Design, Hampf design, Umbilico Design, Lundberg Design, Strukturdesign, Beijer Electronics HMI products, Volaris, Makeni, Stockmos, Nybergs Deli, Panthera, Fagersta hygien,
plus contact is currently being established with more SMEs!
Project financing: PIEp, Vinnova - The Workplace as an Innovation System - the competent workplace
Contact: Magnus Eneberg (magnus.eneberg @ design.lth.se)
tel: 46 73 6223060
Why? The concept of design thinking has been raised as a creative approach to innovation and as an alternative way to solve problems. At the same time industrial design consultancies (IDCs) are broadening their offer to include design strategy services that are assumed to have a greater strategic impact on the business of the client companies then traditional product design services. According to several studies (SVID, 2004; 2008) SMEs have less experience of working with design and less understanding of how design could contribute to their business then larger companies. In the project the cooperation between SMEs and IDCs, working with strategic innovation projects, are studied. The project strives to improve how design knowledge and competencies are integrated into SMEs leading to growth of both IDCs and SMEs.
What? How can SMEs and IDCs cooperate to strengthen their strategic innovation capability and profitability with the help of creative methods used in the design process? How can industrial design consultants strengthen their ability to meet the needs of their client companies regarding skills in business development, strategy creation and innovation?
How? The project has a qualitative approach. Initially a survey of participating companies’ processes and skills will be carried out through interviews and observations. Two workshops have been organized with participating IDCs from Sweden, Finland and US. In collaboration with SVID and the so-called sommardesignkontoren (SDK) - summer design studios observations will be conducted during the briefing process and workshop. The workshop that will take place during summer 2010 will consist of both SMEs and designers working with conceptual innovation projects using design methods. Initially we will conduct interviews with both SMEs and designers about the expectations they have of the other party and the cooperation in the SDK that is to come. During the workshops and briefing process, we have the opportunity to observe how the cooperation is developing and relationships are built and hopefully trust is created. At the end, of the seven weeks that the SDK projects last, follow-up interviews will be conducted. In these interviews we will be able to ask questions concerning if/how the approach to design and designers have changed in the SMEs and what is the basis for change (if any). In addition, we have the opportunity to ask questions to both parties about problems in regard to the cooperation, and how they believe these problems could have been avoided.
(as shown in Project Portfolio Nov'09)16.01.2009. 00:01
InnoPlant eng
Project leader:
Erik Pineiro
Time period:
2008-2011
Email:
erikp@kth.se
Project description:
InnoPlant.pdf
In this project, researchers, county councils, hospitals and manufacturing companies collaborate in order to develop new methods for user involvement and increased innovation capability.
InnoPlant concerns the understanding and development of innovation-fostering forms of collaboration between the medical technology industry and the Swedish public healthcare sector. More specifically, the project focuses on the interaction between company employees, end-users and purchasers in public healthcare. The industrial goal is thus to develop these forms of collaboration to increase the innovation capability and the sustainable competitive advantage of the organizations. The goal of academia is to increase the understanding of the emergence and realization of these collaboration forms as well as their effects.
The medical technology industry is represented by three large medtech companies (Getinge, Maquet and ArjoHuntleigh), and the public healthcare sector is represented by two county councils (Stockholms Läns Landsting and Region Skåne). Each organization (companies and county councils) is also running their own local innovation project concerning the collaboration between industry and the public healthcare. These local projects are also objects for research. To establish a mutual learning between the participating organizations, a learning network has been established. The learning network involves all the representatives from the organizations meeting 3-4 times a year to share experiences and findings from their local projects and to be inspired by expert guest speakers.
Within the project several different research approaches are applied. One example is a survey, developed to investigate how a company’s connections to users and purchasers in the healthcare sector influence the innovation outcome of groups in the companies. Another example is a workshop series where the researchers investigate how dignified products can be developed in collaboration with potential users in the healthcare sector. InnoPlant is also monitored by ethnological researchers who investigate the culture that arises in the interaction between researchers, company representatives and people from the healthcare sector in this type of project. InnoPlant started in the fall of 2008 and extends over a period of three years. [April 2010]
(as shown in Project Portfolio Nov'09)15.01.2009. 23:49
IDRE eng
Innovation driven research education
Project leader:
Jan Wikander
Time period:
2008-2013
~New technology, new products, new business and a new research education~
Email:
jan@md.kth.se
Project description:
IDRE.pdf
The purpose of this project is to develop research education into an innovation driven research education. A specific concept is designed for the education, tried out in 8 doctoral projects based on a scientific problem and business potential.
Involved partners to date are: KTH, CTMH, HJ and LTH.
(as shown in Project Portfolio No'09)
See also:
Optical Stimulation for Visual Prosthesis;
LED-based Spectroscopy for Optical Diagnostics;
Medical Diagnostics using Spectroscopy: GasMAS; and
Simulation of Surgical Procedures with Haptic Feedback15.01.2009. 18:07