David Rönnberg Sjödin, PhD student in Entrepreneurship and Innovation, got together with Johan Frishammar and Per-Erik Eriksson, professor and assistant professor in Entrepreneurship and Innovation, recently an award for Best paper.
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Last Sunday voted the Sami's for the sixth time since the Sami Parliament was established 20 years ago. But still it is far from a Sami self-determination. This comments Simon Matti.
Whoever gets the honor of receiving the prize is Olle Hage, teacher of economics at Luleå University of Technology. He is a teacher who is passionate about his subject and that sets high standards for its students. He is one of those who developed Economics at Luleå University so that it now has the highest rating by the Swedish Higher Education Autority.
When sociology students were commissioned to carry out a covert observational study chose Caroline Johansson, Hanna Lindström and Rebecca Larsson to investigate Lulea Hockey's supporter culture.
South China Morning Post has paid attention to a newsletter by Lars Hamberg, PhD in Accounting and Control at Luleå University of Technology and fund manager at Active Funds.
Swedish newspaper Svenska Dagbladet recently noticed a blog post from Lars Hamberg, PhD student in Accounting and Control at Luleå University of Technology.
The members of the political parties in Norrbotten is getting less and less, which does not surprise Simon Matti at Luleå University of Technology.
Following Apple’s inroad into the mobile market in 2007, Google quickly followed suit when both companies established a platform that provided a forum for the development and distribution of mobile apps. This opened up a previously closed market to those with programming skills and who wished to develop new apps. many developers seize the oportunity, but sucess stories are limited.
Josefin Lassinantti, doctoral student in the subject of Informatics and a creative project participant in the SATIN project. Josefin participated in Vinnova's seminar: Forum Open Data.
Thursday, April 17 held Johan Sandström a Science Lunch at the culture house in Luleå. The title was The unsustainable economy? - A subject that attracted so many to the lecture hall was filled to the brim.
Deadline for applications to universities has passed and never before have Luleå University Technology had as many first-choice applicants to it's programs. The result shows that a total of 18% more than in 2012, sought to Luleå University of Technology, while the equivalent for the country is 6.5%. LTU's engineering programs have received 24% more first-choice applicants.
Studentlitteratur AB gives Eira Andersson at Luleå University of Technology a honorable mention for her thesis.
Arbetet writes about a gender project in mines at Luleå University of Technology. The project is financed by Vinnova and executives from the mining companies LKAB, Boliden and Northland Resources have together developed a common vision for a gender equal mining industry.
Tore Andersson, PhD student in History of Technology at Luleå University of Technology, participated recently in an article along with a number of researchers from Umeå University.
Lena Abrahamsson, Professor of Human Work Sciences at Luleå University of Technology, speaks about women's pensions in NSD.
Einar Häckner, Professor Emeritus in Economics at Luleå University of Technology, speaks about Panaxia on Radio Sweden.
As cars become more and more advanced it also requires a technological simplicity. The systems to handle while driving should not be too difficult for the driver. This is something that Camilla Grane, researcher in Engineering Psychology at Luleå University of Technology, has a solution of.
Along with a number of other experts speaks Karolina Parding, Associate Professor of Human Work Science at Luleå University of Technology, about the Swedish school system in Radio Sweden.
In autumn 2013 starts Luleå University of Technology (LTU) a new education in Digital Service Innovation – an area right in time.
During two days have high school students from across Sweden been visiting Luleå University of Technology and various mini-courses. In App & Go they had the opportunity to create their own apps.
IT industry needs to hire more women in order to maintain its competitiveness. In universities, women are rare in senior positions, including in the IT field. The lack of women in IT industry and in leading positions in academia is something that Professor Ylva Fältholm and project manager Paula Wennberg would like to change.
The European Commission has appointed Magnus Ericsson, adjunct professor at Luleå University of Technology and founder of the Raw Materials Group as rapporteur on raw materials in the EU organ European Innovation Partnership.
80 of the world's countries have had a female leader, but Sweden still has not had a woman on top. This says Radio Sweden and Josefin Rönnbäck, gender historian at Luleå University of Technology, speaks as an expert.
On International Women's Day gave Norrbottens-Kuriren Lena Abrahamsson attention. She is a professor of Human Work Science and gender researcher at Luleå University of Technology. Additionally is Lena Abrahamsson member of the government delegation for equality in workplaces.
On Max David Eriksson's Stockholm office hangs a statement that begins with the words "A masterpiece of industrial design. Beautiful to feel, hear and watch." – When I read that, I had a little hard to hold back the tears, says Max David.
The horse meat scandal is about fraud against consumers, who are denied the opportunity to choose what they buy. As Arash Kordestani, researcher in Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) at Luleå University of Technology (LTU) says.
Half of all women who become seniors in the next few years will be below the poverty line. Lena Abrahamsson is a professor of Human Work Science at Luleå University of Technology and A member of the government delegation for equality in worklife. Now she wants to address this issue.
Magnus Ericsson, adjunct professor in mineral economics at Luleå University of Technology, is a founding member of the Raw Material Group and is a renowned expert within the area. He is following Northland Resources economic situation with large interest and can often be seen in media.
When the women organized themselves to enforce women's suffrage for over 100 years ago, they met opposition and hate. To be a woman who take much space in the public sphere has its price. All forward movements have setbacks, writes Maria Sveland in her new book.
In recent weeks, Magnus Ericsson, adjunct professor at Luleå University of Technology has been highly in demand by the media. Reason: He is Sweden's leading expert on mineral economics, and the media wants to know: What will happen to Northland Resources? Well, what will happen?
95 percent of large companies in the EU publishes sustainability reports where the company reports operations related to social, ethical and environmental responsibility. Professor Johan Sandström at LTU is studying sustainability reports in health-, medicin- and food companies. The studies show that Corporate Social Responsibility-reports needs to be developed and better integrated into traditional economic reports.
In 2005 graduated Katarina Willig from the program Industrial and Management Engineering at Luleå University of Technology. Since then she has held various posts at Procter & Gamble, a multinational company with sales of approximately 80 billion dollars per year.
Lean is hot - that is how we should organize the work. But how does that work with gender work? This talks Lena Abrahamsson about in the paper Arbetet.
"If you miss half of the population as a recruitment base, it's a problem." This says Ylva Fältholm, professor of Human Work Science at Luleå University of Technology to Radio Sweden.
Of 8 300 high school students in Norrbotten County, have 14% of the girls and 20% of the guys tried drugs and cannabis is the most common drug. This shows a research study that Mats Jakobsson, Senior Lecturer in Sociology at Luleå University of Technology, has conducted in cooperation with the County Administrative Board of Norrbotten.
Entreprenörskapsforums prize for young scientists in 2013 is split between Sara Thorngren, researcher and lecturer in Entrepreneurship and Innovation at Luleå University of Technology and Lina Andersson, Linnaeus University.
A unique learning platform is currently being introduced that explains how networks step by step can be established in areas that lack the common internet infrastructure. The technology is called Delay Tolerant Networking (DTN), and was originally created by NASA.
Team Nytänkt took for the second time the first prize in the contest Innovation Factory. This time the students were working on behalf of the hamburger chain Max.
Anna Krook-Riekkola, researcher within energy system analysis at Luleå University of Technology, was asked to join a project on future alternatives for the Nordic countries to meet tougher climate targets, initiated by the International Energy Agency (IEA) and Nordic Energy Research.
Now is Luleå University of Technology (LTU) filled with many new students. The programmes are about to start. William Carlsson, Elias Geokhaji and Jens Andersson are all 21 years old and new students in Economics - an education that is twice as popular in comparison to the previous year.
On Thursday visited 90 business students from Luleå University of Technology Kiruna to present 19 new business plans. Several local business owners were there to take part of the ideas.
Forum for Work Life Research is one of Sweden's national research schools. Jan Johansson, professor of Human Work Science at Luleå University of Technology is one of the members of the steering group.
On Tuesday, they wrote the exam in Industrial production environment. On Wednesday, it is -18 degrees and sun. Then they run the railing in the middle of campus in Luleå.
Dennis Pettersson, Professor of Industrial Design at LTU, is the new Ambassador of commercialization at the Business Administration, Technology and Social Sciences.
Luleå's local government commissioner Karl Petersen declines his post before the election in September 2014. Simon Matti, Senior Lecturer in Political Science at Luleå University of Technology, believes that this could have major implications for the Swedish Social Democratic Party in the election 2014.
Luleå University of Technology has been enhanced with a 3D scanner that will primarily be used by students in Industrial Design Engineering. The price tag of 350 000 SEK provides a device that is one of the better of its kind.
Division of Innovation and Design at Luleå University of Technology gets 1 000 000 SEK of LTU's lab fund to expand the design lab with a 3D printer that can produce models of wax and a vacuum casting equipment.
Future trucks with autopilot mean a whole new driving situation and emerging risks. Camilla Grane, researcher at Luleå University of Technology (LTU), is therefore working to develop tests that can identify risks and how the driver is affected.
Researchers at Luleå University of Technology are working to develop future remote-controlled mines together with LKAB. In addition to collecting the control of several mines to one place, sees Jan Johansson, professor of Human Work Science at LTU, more benefits.
