Posts tagged: innovation

EU">Sweden most competitive nation in the EU

The World Eco­nomic Forum (WEF) has just released its 2010 Lis­bon Review. Accord­ing to this report, Swe­den is the most com­pet­i­tive nation in the EU [SvD]. Accord­ing to the WEF press release, Swe­den is “the most com­pet­i­tive econ­omy as mea­sured by the Euro­pean Union’s (EU) own com­pe­ti­tion bench­mark, the Lis­bon cri­te­ria”. As I under­stand it, […]

Sunday May 9th, 2010 in , , , , , , | 3 Comments »

The two faces of strategy

Like an ancient gen­eral, a born leader from a noble fam­ily, the strate­gist screens the site for the upcom­ing bat­tle from a nearby hill. Decides on what resources are needed, and where they should be applied. Direc­tions are given to the offi­cers. Rein­force­ments are called in from a nearby friendly town if avail­able. The battle […]

Wednesday May 5th, 2010 in , , , | No Comments »

An interview with Gunnar Sohlenius

He founded the Stock­holm branch of the Swedish Insti­tute for Pro­duc­tion Engi­neer­ing Research, IVF, dur­ing a break in his doc­toral stud­ies in 1965. Before he had time to com­plete his Ph.D. he became a pro­fes­sor in pro­duc­tion engi­neer­ing at Linköping Insti­tute of Tech­nol­ogy, LiTH (1971–1976),  and in man­u­fac­tur­ing sys­tems at the Royal Insti­tute of Tech­nol­ogy, KTH, […]

Tuesday April 6th, 2010 in , , , , , | 1 Comment »

Capabilities, innovation and competitiveness

For the moment I’m con­cerned with indus­trial inno­va­tion processes. Why are they nec­es­sary? What types of inno­va­tion processes exist in an indus­trial pro­duc­tion com­pany? What’s the link between inno­va­tion and com­pet­i­tive­ness? And how is inno­va­tion linked to related fields like organ­i­sa­tional learn­ing and dynamic capa­bil­i­ties? A cou­ple of days ago I received a copy of […]

Friday March 26th, 2010 in , , , , , | No Comments »

Batteries of seaweed

Imag­ine an e–book con­sist­ing only of a paper bat­tery with elec­tronic ink and cir­cuits printed directly on the bat­tery. Sounds inter­est­ing? This may become real­ity with a newly invented bat­tery. Read on. Algal–blooms have been a major prob­lem in the Baltic sea over the last decade or so. Causes are attrib­uted to be global warm­ing, excess […]

Wednesday March 24th, 2010 in , , , , , , , | No Comments »

New era in energy innovation taking off?

Dur­ing the last week I’ve come across two inter­est­ing pieces of news that breethes enthu­si­asm about the future of energy. One was the talk of Microsoft founder Bill Gates at this years TED con­fer­ence. The other, reported on Jan­u­ary 28 by, is a claim by the National Igni­tion Facil­ity (NIF) pro­gram at the Lawrence Livermore […]

Tuesday February 23rd, 2010 in , , , , | No Comments »

Lean product development and creativity

Yes­ter­day I was made aware of this arti­cle on the web­site of the Royal Insti­tute of tech­nol­ogy, KTH, where Mar­gareta Norell Bergen­dahl, pro­fes­sor in inte­grated prod­uct devel­op­ment  at KTH, dis­cusses the dan­ger of uncrit­i­cally adopt­ing lean prin­ci­ples in prod­uct devel­op­ment. It so hap­pens that a cou­ple of days ago I started read­ing Don­ald G. Reinertsen’s […]

Thursday February 18th, 2010 in , , , , | No Comments »