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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.

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.

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.

Well-visited and appreciated innovation day

2019-11-20 Luleå University of Technology organized an innovation day at Vetenskapens hus with over 130 applicants from, among others, Tillväxtverket, the Region, business managers in Norrbotten's municipalities, Vattenfall and entrepreneurs in, the IT industry and the mining sector.

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.

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.

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...

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.

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.

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...

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.

Entrepreneurship Education Conference

8 May. 2019 08:00 – 10 May. 2019 17:00 :

2018-10-04

NIMBLE – the collaboration Network for Industry, Manufacturing, Business and Logistics in Europe

2018-09-07 Supply chains have become highly complex networks requiring strategic partnerships based on predefined trans-action flows and collaboration patterns.

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.

Published:5 November 2013
Updated: 27 November 2018
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