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New doctoral student - Teresa Belkow

2021-09-14 Before coming to Luleå University of Technology, Teresa Belkow spent a lot of time abroad, including in London, Amsterdam and Lima. She has been active in issues concerning social and ecological sustainability. The driving force is to contribute through research to strategies enabling more people to...

Dissertation in entrepreneurship and innovation - Thomas Ejdemo

29 Sep. 2021 13:00 – 15:00 , A109:

2021-09-14 Entrepreneurship and the Geography of Innovation: Essays on the Role of Related Variety

New doctoral student – Andreas Volmberg

2021-09-03 During his time as a master’s student in management at Gothenburg School of Economics, Andreas Volmberg was involved in student-run companies. In his doctoral project at Luleå University of Technology, he will, within the framework of Norrlandsnavet, assist small and medium-sized companies in discov...

Dissertation in Entrepreneurship and Innovation – Anmar Kamalaldin

21 Sep. 2021 13:00 – 15:00 :

2021-09-01 Anmar Kamalaldin defends his dissertation A Relational View on Digital Servitization: Empirical Insights from Industrial Relationships.

Their research contributes to a circular food industry

2021-05-21 Researchers at Luleå University of Technology have initiated a project that aims to develop an economically sustainable business model that contributes to the circular in the food industry. For companies to dare to invest in developing environmentally friendly food products, ecological sustainabilit...

Difficult to implement circular business models

2021-03-23 Sweden aim for no net emissions of greenhouse gases by 2045. To achieve that goal, Swedish industry must change by developing circular business models. In an article in the reputable journal MIT Sloan Management Review, researchers in entrepreneurship and innovation report what problems are on the w...

Research will ensure more equal crisis support

2021-03-08 Public support measures are seen as a savior of the business community in the wake of the corona crisis. But how are decisions made and who receives the support? A research project in entrepreneurship and innovation as well as human work science studies how crisis support for the green economy is af...

Large investment in a sustainable financial market

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...

Anmar Kamalaldin Teacher of the Year 2020

2021-01-18 The Student union of engineering at Luleå University of Technology has appointed Anmar Kamalaldin as Teacher of the Year 2020

In the media: Measure and become more innovative

2020-12-23 This news in media only.

Research projects will support AI-driven circular business models in industry

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...

AI or human – who makes the smartest investments?

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...

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 ...

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.

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...

Equal business and business models

8 Oct. 2020 12:00 – 12:45 , Zoom:

2020-09-28

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.

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.

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.

Published:5 November 2013
Updated: 14 September 2021
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