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2021-01-29 The master's program in international business has 551 applicants for the autumn semester 2021. This is an increase of more than 100 applicants compared with the previous autumn.
2021-01-28 Vinnova will invest SEK 47 million during the coming five-year period in the Sustainable Finance Lab, which will conduct research for modernisation of the financial market from a sustainability perspective. One of the directors of the Sustainable Finance Lab is Malin Malmström, professor of entrepre...
2021-01-18 The Student union of engineering at Luleå University of Technology has appointed Anmar Kamalaldin as Teacher of the Year 2020
2021-01-15 The hospitality industry is a rapidly growing industry. At the same time, staff turnover is high, which complicates the industry's supply of skills. A new research project is investigating how the the hospitality industry can become a more attractive workplace by expanding and better marketing the o...
2020-12-23 This news in media only.
2020-12-15 There are already technical AI solutions that can be used in industry to develop more resource-efficient production processes, to the benefit of both the environment and companies. – The main challenge is no longer technology development; it is to use technology in concrete business model applicati...
2020-12-08 Do algorithms make better and fairer investments in start-ups than human angel investors do? Luleå University of Technology professor Malin Malmström has investigated this together with colleagues from Hanken School of Economics in Finland and St Gallen University in Switzerland. The results have no...
2020-11-27 Raw materials from the food industry are not utilized in an efficient and ecologically sustainable way. In a pilot project on social innovation at Luleå University of Technology, in collaboration with Guldhaven Pelagiska AB in Kalix, the researchers will develop an economically sustainable business ...
2020-11-23 An essay by five students in industrial economics at Luleå University of Technology states that some of the most important factors for highly educated people to settle in a municipality are an attractive housing market, tolerance towards migrants and LGBTQ individuals, good connections to an airport...
2020-11-20 This information in Swedish only.
2020-11-20 Behind Fast Track are Luleå University of Technology and LTU Business, the second round of which will start at the turn of the year. In the eighteen-month diploma program, participants gain knowledge and tools to drive change in their businesses, with a focus on growth through, for example, product ...
2020-11-12 Professor Dean A Shepherd is an internationally leading researcher in entrepreneurship. He has made significant contributions to our knowledge and understanding of the decision making of individual entrepreneurs under high uncertainty, emotional stress and extreme conditions.
2020-11-10 Maria Ek Styvén, professor of Industrial Marketing, has been named the best supervisor of the year 2020 for PhD students from Teknologkåren at Luleå University of Technology.
2020-11-05 The 2020 Scientific Prize from Nordea's Norrland Foundation is awarded to Vinit Parida, Chaired Professor of Entrepreneurship and Innovation at Luleå University of Technology
2020-10-16 In May 2020 Luleå University of Technology received funding from The Kamprad Family Foundation for Entrepreneurship Research and Charity of 100MSEK. The funding has been used to set up “NorrlandsNavet” – a center operating for eight years targeting on driving growth of small and medium-sized enterpr...
2020-09-14 In August, Julia Larsson started as a project coordinator for the research group Entrepreneurship and Innovation. The position is completely new, which makes Julia Larsson something of a pioneer. - I have a background as an entrepreneur and former golf professional. It will be very exciting to be ab...
2020-09-14 A collaboration platform for providers and buyers and business models based on technology and new business networks, as well as the complexity of the design process when different stakeholders' logics are to interact. These are some of the results of the NIMBLE project.
2020-09-14 Malin Malmström, Professor of Entrepreneurship and Innovation, has been appointed a member of Almi Research Council.
2020-09-04 Milad Kolagar is a new PhD student at Entrepreneurship and Innovation. He is working on a research project about digital innovation of business models in Swedish and global industrial ecosystems.
2020-07-14 Every year, wear and tear on the railroad causes enormous costs, not only in the form of repair costs but also due to delays in train traffic. Now, researchers at Luleå University of Technology will develop models to support the choice of maintenance measures on the railway.
2020-06-10 Sara Thorgren, professor of Entrepreneurship and innovation, Karolina Parding, professor of Sociology and Kristina Johansson, associate professor of Human work science, all at Luleå University of Technology, participate in the anthology "Managers of the Future - New-born and foreign-born women's ent...
2020-05-18 Inclusive business models lead to better competitiveness. An on-line tool, Richer business, can help companies and organizations to become better at gender equality and do better business.
2020-04-08 Every year Swedtrain, the industry association for the Swedish railway industry, awards a prize for best thesis project in railway technology and this year the prize goes to two former students at Luleå University of Technology.
2020-03-25 Vinit Parida, Professor of Entrepreneurship and innovation at Luleå University of Technology, is one of four people elected to the Board of Directors at RE:Source, a strategic innovation program with the vision that Sweden should become a pioneering country for material use within the planet's bord...
2020-03-02 Researchers from Entrepreneurship and Innovation working in the DigIn project at Luleå University of Technology are striving for increasing the rate of digitalization, sustainability and competitiveness in Swedish industry.
2020-02-21 Nordea's chief economist Annika Winsth visited Luleå University of Technology and to talk about Sweden's economic situation and its challenges. She wants to call for raising the economic issue and being aware of the changes that are taking place in the economy.
2020-02-14 US Ambassador Kenneth Howery emphasizes the university's role for an entrepreneur's success. Both research and education are important for entrepreneurs of the future.
2020-02-12 The new project Innovation platform for sustainable attractive cities will work to develop new working methods in order to better capture ideas and innovations in the urban transformation. The objective is to help Kiruna municipality to become more innovative in its processes. The project constellat...
2020-02-11 Luleå University of Technology is represented in two of the government's four collaborative groups that will create innovative solutions for society. The Vice-Chancellor Birgitta Bergvall-Kåreborn is part of the Group of Skills Supply and Lifelong Learning, while Professor Vinit Parida is part of th...
2020-01-31 94 entries from universities and colleges throughout Sweden came in – but both first and second prizes in the degree project competition Nytt&Nyttigt went to students from Luleå University of Technology's Industrial and Management Engineering programme.
2020-01-15 Female entrepreneurs can be more successful in fundraising processes by anticipating and handling potentially biased responses to their pitches, according to a large-scale study led by Luleå University of Technology's professor Malin Malmström.
2020-01-13 What could the municipalities do to get more businesses started, and how are different municipalities in the country in terms of entrepreneurial activity? A group of students in Industrial and Management Engineering have investigated that.
2019-11-22 Researchers at Luleå University of Technology will help small and medium-sized companies in the process industry in northern Sweden and Finland to develop new digital services and business models that involve companies collaborating more with each other.
2019-11-20 Linus Thomson is newly employed as a PhD student in Entrepreneurship and Innovation at Luleå University of Technology.
2019-11-06 Wiebke Reim, Associate Senior Lecturer of Entrepreneurship and Innovation, was awarded, by Vattenfall the 2019 award for best doctoral dissertation at Luleå University of Technology.
2019-10-28 On October 17, Jens Aldenlöv conducted his licentiate seminar and thus obtained the licentiate degree in Quality Technology. The thesis was about procurement of railway maintenance.
2019-10-28 In the project “Tomorrow's green tourist”, researchers at Luleå University of Technology will investigate young peoples’ view of sustainable traveling.
2019-10-10 Vinit Parida, professor of Entrepreneurship and Innovation at Luleå University of Technology, came in 24th place when the magazine Fokus ranked the 100 most productive and cited researchers in Sweden in the Social Sciences category.
2019-08-27 This was the theme, when researchers from Luleå University of Technology in collaboration with Boliden, organized a workshop in Ericsson's studio in Stockholm, within the research project DigIn.
2019-07-23 Are you one of those who throw your food waste into flammable instead of using compost bag? Have you experienced that the compost bag broke down on the way to the garbage can? Five students at Luleå University of Technology have investigated the factors that make the compost bags not, even though th...
2019-07-09 Researchers in the field of Entrepreneurship and Innovation at Luleå University of Technology, have been granted SEK 3.7 million to study the management of food waste in the food and beverage industry. The researchers will develop business models for how to make money from residues and waste from t...
2019-06-11 Paulina Sawicki and Karin Nilsson, students of the Master programme in Industrial and Management Engineering, have completed an assignment for the audiobook company Bookbeat as their thesis.
2019-06-10 This article is not avaliable in English.
2019-06-04 In connection with the conference Spring Servitization Conference 2019 in Linköping, May 13-15, a leading international conference within its area, researchers within Entrepreneurship and Innovation were rewarded at Luleå University of Technology.
2019-05-21 A new research project at Luleå University of Technology will help Swedish companies to become more competitive in the international market by developing new digital services.
2019-04-26 This spring, two essays written by students at Luleå University of Technology have won first prize in national essay competitions.
2019-04-26 Digitalisation is not just about technology, but about getting together the "four pillars": process, people, technology and partners. That was the conclusion when Vinit Parida and David Sjödin, researchers in Entrepreneurship and innovation at Luleå University of Technology, lectured at Estrad on di...
2019-04-26 Ny Teknik interviewed experts on how Swedish business enterprises can benefit commercially from the digitalisation. Vinit Parida, Professor of Entrepreneurship and innovation at Luleå University of Technology, participated.
2019-04-25 How can we create sustainable innovations that solve societal challenges? It was the focus when 140 participants met at Luleå University of Technology during the conference Social Innovation in North on April 25.
2019-04-25 Improved sustainability performance; socially, environmentally and economically. This is the purpose of the project "Walk the talk", a collaboration between Luleå University of Technology and Swedish the mining industry.
2019-03-15 This article is not avaliable in English.
2019-02-25 In a new project, researchers at Luleå University of Technology, together with various companies, will investigate how new circular business models can be created and introduced. The goal is to support a long-term sustainable industry, which utilizes less materials and resources to produce products ...
2019-01-29 Through analyzes of more than 8,000 student health surveys and studies of student health talks, researchers at Luleå University of Technology want to gain knowledge about how children and young people feel in school and how this has changed over time. The research is part of the initiative Health Sc...
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 for Innovation and Regional Growth (SIRT) project will lead development. The goal is to increase res...
2018-12-17 In a new project, funded by the Kamprad Family Foundation, Luleå University of Technology's researchers Thomas Zobel and Åsa Ericson will investigate how reuse can be more central for companies in the sports and outdoor gear industry. The goal is to increase companies' knowledge of digitization and ...
2018-12-13 Hundreds of people came and listened to the university's Innovation Day organized by Effective Innovation and Organization together with LTU Business AB.
2018-11-27 2018 has been a very successful year for research group in Entrepreneurship and Innovation. Five PhD students defended their thesis and three of them received their doctoral hats during the Academic ceremony.
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2018-11-07 Isabella Holmberg, student at Luleå University of Technology, was selected by Nova's talent network to visit China and some of the world's most innovative companies to learn more about the market. Now she is back, loaded with knowledge and ideas.
2018-10-08 This article is not available in English.
2018-06-20 Today it has been almost 50 years since the car and component testing operations first came to Norrbotten. Now an investigation is presented by Luleå University of Technology which shows that there are a number of regional strong reasons why the testing industry is located right here.
2018-06-14 The research group in Entrepreneurship and Innovation at Luleå University of Technology recently won the Best Paper Award at one of the most prestigious conferences in their field.
2018-06-14 Diversity, innovation and entrepreneurship is the theme when the international research conference Uddevalla Symposium is held June 14-16 at Luleå University of Technology. A total of a hundred researchers gather from more than 20 countries.
2018-05-30 More than 60 people from Sweden, Norway, Finland, Denmark, Latvia, Estonia, England, USA, Germany, Poland and Italy visited Luleå University of Technology when the Nordic Conference on Small Business Research took place.
2018-05-17 A different and exciting summer 2018 awaits six students on Master Programme in Industrial and Management Engineering at Luleå University of Technology. Everyone has now been awarded a scholarship of Rune Andersson's anniversary foundation for a unique and paid summer practice in Austin, Dehli and L...
2018-05-17 Isabella Holmberg, a fourth-year student of the Master Programme in Industrial and Management Engineering at Luleå University of Technology, and will represent the university during a two week trip to China in August.
2018-04-18 Malin Malmström, Professor of Entrepreneurship and Innovation, was recently a keynote speaker at Stockholm International Forum of Gender Equality. Malin Malmström talked about how social norms affect financiers' decision-making.
2018-03-27 In a new study, researchers at Luleå University of Technology have observed that venture capitalists adopt markedly different stereotypical notions of female and male entrepreneurs during their decision-making processes. But these notions are not supported by venture performance data from annual rep...
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 but wishes to pay attention to the research team he is part of. – The price shows that the work that...
2018-03-13 The Department of Business Administration, Technology and Social Sciences at Luleå University of Technology is now working for more people to take the opportunity to visit a partner university through weekly teacher exchanges.
2018-02-19 Now will Luleå University of Technology train 13 officers from F21 in Luleå and I19 in Boden and Arvidsjaur. – We are one of four universities in Sweden who can provide this kind of academic education to the Swedish Armed Forces, says Kent Nilsson who is responsible for the education.
2018-01-31 This article is not available in English
2018-01-23 In order to encourage employees' efforts the Department of Business Administration, Technology and Social Sciences awarded Vinit Parida and Monika Kurkkio in the end of the year 2017.
2017-12-06 A new thesis at Luleå University of Technology presents newly developed methods and tools to meet challenges that arise in continuous industrial processes.
2017-10-23 Digitalisation from a regional perspective was the theme of this year's Forskarform held at Luleå University of Technology on October 18th. Around sixty researchers and regional developers from all over Sweden participated.
2017-10-17 Digitalisation from a regional perspective is the theme of this year's Forskarform held at Luleå University of Technology on October 18th. About seventy researchers and regional developers from all over Sweden meet to discuss what opportunities digitalisation offers.
2017-10-16
2017-08-31 Elite clubs reach higher audience average and better sporting goals if they have a professional financial management of their business. This is the result of a student project at Luleå University of Technology where over one hundred Swedish club are examined.
2017-08-22 In order to keep up to date and to ensure that the education in quality technology is relevant, a group of teachers and PhD students visited a conference in Helsingör the 5-7th of August. The latest research on the subject was presented at the conference.
2017-08-03 Students Linn Johansson and Louise Ramqvist have, as their degree project, examined public procurement projects. They have reviewed nearly 500 infrastructure projects, and the results show that the budget is exceeded by an average of 20 percent per project. – There is a need for better accounting ...
2017-07-11 A new way of measuring the effects of innovations challenges the perception that development is mainly created in major cities. It is one of the results of seven years of research on the prerequisites for innovations in sparsely populated regions.
2017-06-21 How process engineers can learn to understand continuous production processes using experimental techniques has been in the focus of a study now published in the journal Quality & Reliability Engineering International.
2017-06-08 On the first summer day of the year in Luleå, Rune Andersson's scholarship for foreign studies was awarded to four students at Luleå University of Technology. In the fall they will now go to study in South Korea and Singapore with a scholarship that makes it economically possible to look around the ...
2017-06-05 Digitalisation affects almost all industries in Sweden - but many companies lack knowledge about how they can benefit commercially. In a new project, researchers at Luleå University of Technology, together with established companies, will investigate how new business models can be created.
2017-05-22 Former student Lisa Thorén Hedin completed her degree in Industrial and Management Engineering in 2014. Today, her results on Community Engagement and Development in the Swedish mining industry has been published in a scientific journal.
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 and Ossi Pesämaa have contributed to.
2017-04-24 On Saturday researchers and the public stood up for the importance of science and research-based knowledge. The global event March for Science drew over a hundred people to Gula paviljongen in the center of Luleå.
2017-04-21 A framework with 36 sustainability criteria will help the Nordic mining industry to develop its sustainability efforts. Behind the framework are researchers Helena Ranängen and Åsa Lindman, Luleå University of Technology.
2017-04-05 In a new, mobile laboratory at Luleå University of technology researchers can get a picture of the brain's subconscious reactions to new technological solutions. Several types of biometric data can be captured simultaneously and the results are synchronised and can be analysed together. The aim is t...
2017-03-28 Helmet with a lamp and infrared camera, virtual reality headset and an app that builds paths for horse jumping. These are some of the ideas generated in the project Innovate Passion.
2017-03-21 David Rönnberg Sjödin, senior lecturer in Entrepreneurship and Innovation, has received an award from Kungliga Skytteanska Samfundet to continue to develop his successful research at Luleå University of Technology.
2017-03-21 This article is not available in English
2017-03-16 Johanna Falkenström, a student in Master of Engineering at Luleå University of Technology, won two gold medals in the Swedish championship in arm wrestling in 2017. The competitions were held last weekend in Örnsköldsvik.
2017-02-22 Better models to measure key performance indicators and ensure quality in supply chains. That is crucial for companies to improve their performance and reach the quality standards. A new matrix is now presented in a doctoral thesis at Luleå University of Technology.
2017-02-20 The Board of the University of Gävle has today decided to propose Ylva Fältholm, professor of at Luleå University of Technology, as the Vice-Chancellor. The final decision is taken by the government.
2017-02-20 A large study of Lulea scientists shows that the distribution of grants is governed by stereotypes about men and women.
2017-01-17 A roe bus, food trucks with local ingredients and an extraordinary sauna experience. That is the content of some of the business plans that students from Luleå University of Technology presented for Kalix Municipality and Guldhaven Pelagiska AB on the 11th of January.
