Articles about innovation

Innovators of the Year 2022

2022-11-08 The award Student Innovator of the year at Luleå University of Technology 2022 goes to Sofie Zätterqvist who developed "Don't be an asshole brewery" and created a creative concept for alcohol-free bee...

Innovators of the Year 2021

2021-11-11 The students behind Containing Greens receive the award as student innovators of the year at Luleå University of Technology for their work with hydroponic crops. The innovator research award goes to J...

Social innovators in civil society – important but underfunded

2021-06-13 Sweden has a long tradition of civil society developing innovative solutions to societal challenges. But public investments in innovation go mainly to commercial actors.
– A national investment fund ...

Saad Ahmed Khan awarded in young researchers competition

2020-09-29 Saad Ahmed Khan, researcher in Operation and Maintenance Engineering at Luleå University of Technology, has with his dissertation won first prize in the competition TRA VISIONS 2020 for young research...

Social innovation in the European Social Fund

2020-08-19 Luleå University of Technology has conducted a study on social innovation for an inclusive working life, based on lessons learned from the European Social Fund. The study includes an overview of past ...

Research anthology on social innovation

2020-02-12 In order to provide an overview of current research on social innovation in Sweden, an anthology is written by researchers from different universities and disciplines.

Prepare and pitch a business idea

2019-11-08 This is a lecture for students! Gain tools to develop an idea and learn how to pitch it based on the Stanford NABC model. You don't need to have a business idea to attend the lecture. You have to regi...

Companies get better access to researchers

2018-12-18 Companies in Norrbotten and Västerbotten will get access to a better digital and physical meeting place to facilitate collaboration with researchers at Luleå University of Technology. The Cooperation ...

Awards to alumni and innovators

2018-11-07 – Studying space engineering at Luleå University of Technology is the best thing I have done. Dare to follow your dreams and your heart!, said a proud Ella Carlsson Sjöberg when she accepted the award...

Model for visualizing the value of social innovations

2018-06-29 The project develops a model to verify and visualize the social, economic and environmental value ​​that social innovations create for people, organizations and society. It is jointly developed by inn...

Researchers strengthen companies' innovations in SIKT

2018-06-27 Researchers at Computer Aided Design, Luleå University of Technology, will participate in the project SIKT, which aims to strengthen innovation, competitiveness and growth for companies in Västernorrl...

Triple-awarded entrepreneurship researcher

2018-03-16 David Sjödin, Associate Professor of Entrepreneurship and Innovation at Luleå University of Technology, has received his third award for his research. He is happy for the young entrepreneurship award ...

Social innovation at a technological university

2017-11-26 The project explores how a technological university can develop knowledge and innovation that enhances a socially sustainable society. A selection of practical examples from the university's various i...

Social innovation in Norrbotten

2017-11-26 The project Identifies and analyzes practical examples of social innovation in Norrbotten, developed by organizations, companies or public authorities. These innovations consist of new goods, services...

Report: More investment is needed in the Arctic

2017-04-26 Norrbotten and Västerbotten are top regions in the Arctic in terms of innovation, concludes a new report from Business Index North, which Luleå University of Technology's researchers Anders Hersinger ...

Transformative Innovation Support

2016-11-18 Transformative Innovation Support is a guide to support social innovations/innovators and improved social sustainability of all kinds of innovations. It can be used by all kinds of innovation promoter...

Model creates innovations across industries

2016-11-11 A model for innovation work in processes where completely different industries, sectors and actors will be met has been developed in a research project at Luleå University of Technology. The focus is...

Civil society innovation

2016-10-08 Luleå University of Technology studies not-for-profit organizations' innovative solutions to societal challenges.

Social innovation in the Church of Sweden

2016-09-25 Luleå University studies social innovation in the Church of Sweden, on the local, regional and national levels. The aim is to identify and analyze examples of social innovations and their potential to...

The research team behind the winner bio-lubricants

2016-06-10 During Thursday the winners of Venture Cup, Sweden's largest competition for business ideas, were selected. Winner in Environmental & Energy became SustainaLube, whose research team coming from Luleå ...

Social innovation

2014-12-11 In the subject of Design at Luleå University of Technology social innovation is studied and supported - i.e. novel ways to meet societal challenges and to improve people's wellbeing, inclusion and emp...

Gender-equal social innovation

2014-01-19 The project explores methods for gender-equal social innovation, i.e. innovative solutions for improved gender awareness and gender equality in organizations and society.

Published:27 February 2016
Updated: 11 October 2019
By:IT
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