News from the Department of Industrial Engineering - Luleå University of Technology

Less waste in the fishing industry makes the Baltic Sea healthier

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 ...

Students provide municipal management with a basis for competence supply

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...

Students in industrial economics are awarded an essay prize

2020-11-20 This information in Swedish only.

This year's participants in the growth program Fast Track

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 ...

Dean Shepherd, Honorary Doctor of Philosophy 2020

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.

Best supervisor of the year 2020

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.

Nordea Scientific Prize 2020 to Vinit Parida

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

NorrlandsNavet is starting to take shape

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...

Entrepreneur and former golf professional starts as new project coordinator

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...

Business and collaboration models for acceleration of B2B platforms

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.

Malin Malmström in Almi's Research Council

2020-09-14 Malin Malmström, Professor of Entrepreneurship and Innovation, has been appointed a member of Almi Research Council.

Milad Kolgar – New PhD student in Entrepreneurship and Innovation

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.

Researchers will develop an experimental methodology for railway maintenance

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.

New anthology about foreign-born women as entrepreneurs

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...

Greater diversity becomes better business

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.

Students at Luleå University of Technology receives Swedtrains award for best thesis project

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.

Vinit Parida elected to RE:Source Board

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...

Researchers want to make Swedish industry world leading in digitalization

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.

Nordea's chief economist at Luleå University of Technology

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.

US Ambassador Kenneth Howery highlights the university's importance for entrepreneurship

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.

New working methods for innovative solutions within the urban transformation in Kiruna

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...

The Vice-chancellor and a professor in the government's collaboration groups

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...

Grand slam for Industrial and Management Engineering students

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.

How female entrepreneurs can respond to gender stereotypes

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.

"Luleå needs to promote the entrepreneurial spirit"

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.

Researchers will support digitalisation in the region's small businesses

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.

New PhD student in Entrepreneurship and Innovation

2019-11-20 Linus Thomson is newly employed as a PhD student in Entrepreneurship and Innovation at Luleå University of Technology.

Vattenfall's award for best doctoral thesis 2019

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.

Jens Aldenlöv graduated with a licentiate degree

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.

Researchers will investigate young people's view on sustainable traveling

2019-10-28 In the project “Tomorrow's green tourist”, researchers at Luleå University of Technology will investigate young peoples’ view of sustainable traveling.

Vinit Parida ranked on Fokus top-100 list

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.

New business models for digitizing the mining industry

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.

Compost bags that break – here's the explanation

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...

How to make food waste into a profitable business

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...

Students did their thesis at Bookbeat

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.

Top student appointed in tough competition

2019-06-10 This article is not avaliable in English.

Researchers were awarded at prestigious conference

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.

Researchers will help Swedish companies become more competitive internationally

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.

Two prized essays from Luleå University of Technology

2019-04-26 This spring, two essays written by students at Luleå University of Technology have won first prize in national essay competitions.

Long-term collaboration is a key to successful digitalisation

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...

In Ny Teknik: Companies grow with digital business models

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.

Great interest in conference on social innovations

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.

Can sustainability management increase social acceptance for mining?

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.

Swedish-Finnish cooperation will lift small businesses in the north

2019-03-15 This article is not avaliable in English.

New project will help companies with sustainable business models

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 ...

Research for better health and learning

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...

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 for Innovation and Regional Growth (SIRT) project will lead development. The goal is to increase res...

Focus on circular economy and sustainable business models

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 ...

Popular innovation day for business and academy

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.

Successful 2018 for Entrepreneurship and Innovation

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.

DigIn Workshop 2018

2018-11-15

Visited some of the world's most innovative companies

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.

"My time in Luleå was amazingly fun"

2018-10-08 This article is not available in English.

Impact of the car test industry in Norrbotten

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.

Best Paper Award at prestigious conference

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.

Diversity and entrepreneurship attracts researchers from 20 countries

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.

International conference attracted more than 60 researchers

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.

Scholarships for summer practice in Austin and Delhi

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...

Top talent selected in tough competition

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.

Keynote speaker at international conference

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.

Stereotypes about entrepreneurs not supported by performance data

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...

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 but wishes to pay attention to the research team he is part of. – The price shows that the work that...

Week-long teacher exchange will attract more

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.

Luleå University of Technology educates officers

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.

New report on opportunities for green energy conversion in Norrbotten

2018-01-31 This article is not available in English

The Department awarded their researchers

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.

Contributions to improved industrial processes

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.

Successful Forskarforum at Luleå University of Technology

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.

Forskarforum at Luleå University of Technology

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.

In the media: Local food raises smaller cities

2017-10-16

Major sporting successes with financial management

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.

Quality Technology monitors recent research

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.

Flaws in public procurement reviewed

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 ...

Innovations are born in sparsely populated regions

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.

Greater understanding for production processes

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.

They received Rune Andersson's scholarship

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 ...

New project will enable Swedish companies to benefit from digitalisation

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.

Thesis published in scientific journal

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.

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 and Ossi Pesämaa have contributed to.

Great participation in March for Science

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.

New criteria for sustainable mines

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.

The brain's subconscious behind new 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...

Girls' interests creates new technology

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.

Award to outstanding scientists

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.

Researchers lecture on customer behavior

2017-03-21 This article is not available in English

Two national championships in arm wrestling

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.

New model increases companies' quality

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.

Ylva Fältholm proposed as the new Vice-Chancellor of the University of Gävle

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.

Stereotypes control grant decisions

2017-02-20 A large study of Lulea scientists shows that the distribution of grants is governed by stereotypes about men and women.

Students put Kalix on the tourist map

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.

Published:28 October 2013

Updated: 3 October 2018

By:Åsa Stubbfält

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