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On May 21, 2024, Ola Olsson, Department of Industrial Economics, successfully defended his thesis on equity crowdfunding. The thesis “How do backers manage investment uncertainty in equity crowdfunding?” examines how ICT has given rise to a new class of equity investors through equity crowdfunding. The thesis then studies how these investors use digital tools to […]

Professor Emeritus Claes Wohlin, a distinguished scholar at Blekinge Institute of Technology, and one of the founders of the Software Engineering community in Sweden, has been honoured as an inaugural Highly Ranked Scholar by ScholarGPS, placing him in the elite top 0.05% of scholars and ranking him #6 worldwide in Software Engineering. This ranking recognises […]

Johan explains why social exclusion is inconsistent with the Swedish model. He also suggests policies to shrink the employment gap between the domestic and foreign-born such as investing in building skills through school-to-work programs. Read more on his recent interview at BLT’s website (in Swedish): https://www.blt.se/naringsliv/fler-maste-forsorja-sig-sjalva/ Johan E Eklund is Chief Economist of Sydsvenska Industri […]

Johan Eklund, along with Johan P. Larsson, has published a new book “The new social exclusion, the development of self-sufficiency and the future of the welfare state” analyzing unemployment and social exclusion among the foreign born in Sweden and the implications for the welfare state. Over the past few decades, Sweden has had a high […]

Johanna Börrefors, researcher at TIEK, has coauthored two chapters in the anthology Criminological theories and how to use them (Kriminologiska teorier och hur man använder dem). The anthology includes contributions from researchers in the field of criminology and examines the theory of rational choices, control theory, as well as resilience theory linked to risk and […]

Viroj Jienwatcharamongkhol was awarded Best Quantitative Paper at the 2024 Australian Centre for Entrepreneurship Research Exchange Conference (ACERE) in Sydney, Australia.   Viroj presented his paper titled “Agglomeration economies, the birth and infancy performance of new firms: Evidence along the industry life cycle,” which was written together with co-authors Javier Changoluisa from Universidad Espiritu Santo, Ecuador and Aldo Salinas from Universidad de las Américas, Ecuador. The paper studies how agglomeration economies influence the […]

Innovation drives the Swedish economy forward. Policymakers, in creating a regulatory environment that is favorable for innovation, influence whether and how much firms innovate. The Handbook of Economic Regulation, edited by TIEK professors Pontus Braunerhjelm, Martin Andersson, and Johan Eklund together with Knut Blind, explores this complex interconnection between innovation and regulation. The Handbook was […]

On 1 February 2024, the European Commission published “Building hope: Europe’s solidarity with Ukraine”. BTH is recognised for ensuring that students can attain a degree despite the impact of war and is the only higher education institution in Sweden to be in this compilation. The European Commission’s compilation highlights 15 impactful Erasmus+ and European Solidarity […]

Since the BTH Research and Education clinic was started four years ago, development has been quick. In a short time, the clinic has become a hub for research, education and development of the care of the future. Today, floor two of the clinic, which focuses on home health care, is being inaugurated. The interest from […]

Now it is time for Leap Frogs 2024! Apply for an innovation scholarship for the summer of 2024. The scholarship amount of 40 000 sek is available to students from Blekinge Tekniska Högskola, Lund University, Malmö University and Sveriges Lantbruksuniversitet. Application deadline is the 12th of February 2024. Contact us at the Innovation Office to […]