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Innovation and Product Realisation


Innovation Management

The research group Innovation Management focuses on innovation, creativity and change processes, and the starting point of the group's research is the social dynamics that emerge in and affect the interaction between people in working life.

A process perspective is used to explain what enables and prevents change in working life, helping us understand how and why innovation and change occur.

The research group consists of an international team of researchers with a mixed research background and collaborates with both the private and public sectors to co-produce knowledge. Together, the group strives to contribute to research, new practices and policy by providing possible solutions to individual, organisational and societal challenges.

Focus

  • innovation, creativity and change at individual, group and organisational level
  • innovation in intra- and inter-organizer
  • enabling creativity, learning, entrepreneurship, innovation and quality
  • change processes related to creativity, learning, entrepreneurship, innovation and quality management

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Ongoing research projects

Innovation Management for Resilient Energy Systems - Orchestration of Ecosystems and Ecosystem Dynamics

Focusing on resilient energy ecosystems as the study object, this project aims to provide an in-depth understanding of resilient energy systems from a socio-technical point of view and specifically how ecosystem dynamics and the anticipation of exogeneous events and trends affects the energy systems ability to become resilient. Based on this new knowledge the project also aims to develop a framework and guideline for new practises of orchestration to support the transition into resilient energy systems.


Project manager at MDU: Peter E Johansson

Main financing: Energimyndigheten

Up-skilling for Industry 5.0 roll-out

The Up-Skill project addresses the workforce implications of industry 5.0, in particular, the relationship between automation choices and maintenance of skilled work, exploring the strategic space in production where automation adds value to skilled and artisanal work and where over-automation risks undermining the value of what is produced.


Project manager at MDU: Chris Ivory

Main financing: Europeiska kommissionen (Horizon Europe)

See completed projects (14)