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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.

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.

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...

In the media: Local food raises smaller cities

2017-10-16

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.

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.

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.

In the media: Research in Management Journal

2016-12-02 Sara Thorgren and Christoffer Westman explored how international partnerships can put parties at odds, and developed a roadmap for how smaller firms may avoid common conflicts.

Workshop, Västerås: Selling Advanced Product-Services to Global Markets

2016-11-14 Researchers from Entrepreneurship and Innovation at LTU recently hold a Workshop together with Automation Region in Västerås about Selling Advanced Product-Services to Global Markets.

Won the young entrepreneurship researcher award

2016-10-21 Vinit Parida, Professor of Entrepreneurship and Innovation at Luleå University of technology, has received a young researcher award for his research concerning global industrial service innovation.

Published:5 November 2013
Updated: 27 November 2018
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