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Researchers in sustainable product development at BTH are developing a digital tool-kit for companies to enable well-informed decisions when developing new solutions. The project is done in close collaboration with a large number of companies, such as AB Volvo, GKN Aerospace and Roxtec. It is funded by the Swedish Innovation Agency Vinnova and will proceed […]

Signal processing enables smart cities and self-driving vehicles, the development of pacemakers and hearing aids, automatic image enhancement, mapping of the Earth’s surface, weather forecasts and climate models. Even the altitude variations on Venus have been mapped.  Mattias Dahl is a professor of systems engineering and Mats Pettersson is a professor of electrical engineering. Both work with systems engineering at BTH and […]

BTH is developing an expert research team in industrial economics and management. BTH is already strong in measuring the effects of change, such as political change, but the field of efficiency and productivity analysis is relatively new and BTH now aims to become the leader in Sweden and an important player internationally. “Behind a result, […]

Six BTH researchers are included in the list of world top researchers when it comes to their career-long citation impact, according to data recently published by Professor of Medicine and statistician John Ioannidis from Stanford University. Professor of Medicine and statistician John Ioannidis from Stanford University along with two other U.S. researchers, published a publicly […]

A paper on Spotify guilds received the 2019 Best Paper Award from the IEEE Software magazine. Lead author, BTH professor Darja Smite, is honored and will continue her research on communities of practice. The paper “Spotify Guilds: How to Succeed with Knowledge Sharing in Large-Scale Agile Organizations” won the 2019 Best Paper Award from the […]

BTH researchers will study how people work with design and development in Tanzania. The aim is to increase their ability to design more successful products. The project is supported by the Swedish Research Council. In developing countries, a large number of people design and produce products such as window coverings, buckets, metal boxes, pots, etc. […]

BTH’s research in big data – which focuses on efficient systems for analysis of large amounts of data – has had a major international scientific impact and given companies increased knowledge. This shows a recent external evaluation. The evaluation, carried out by the external analysis company Damvad Analytics, shows a large scientific impact compared with […]

Sweden’s innovation agency, Vinnova, is investing just over SEK 6.5 million in a project where BTH researchers will work to predict and prevent cracks that occur during sheet metal forming. – In this project we gather key expertise from Swedish industry, research actors in manufacturing processes and FE modeling as well as leading experts in […]

BTH professor Karl-Henrik Robèrt receives an honorary doctorate from Radboud University in the Netherlands for his work on strategic sustainable development. The University of Radboud recently celebrated its 97th birthday with an academic celebration at Stevenskerk in Nijmegen. At the ceremony, BTH professor Karl-Henrik Robèrt was given an honorary doctor at the university. Karl-Henrik Robèrt […]

BTH has become a member of Viable Cities – an innovation programme for smart and sustainable cities. We will contribute with research expertise in fields such as spatial planning and strategic sustainable development. – The membership gives us the chance to be involved in shaping the future direction of the remaining eight years of the […]