PIEp Product Innovation Engineering Program

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PIEp - Product Innovation Engineering Program
- a national program for innovative product and
business development
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PIEp EDUCATION
Creating a system change of higher engineering
education toward innovation, synthesis and
entrepreneurship
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PIEp Education - summary

• Students as agents of change
• New courses and programs in Innovation
  Engineering
• Engineering programs to be developed in the area
  of Innovation Engineering
• Research education (graduate school) in
  Innovation Engineering
• Alumni program for innovators

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The Focus

• The entire product development process, with
  focus on the early phases
• An integrated perspective
• Business, market and production issues are
  integrated in the innovative work
• System change in education and research
• Physical, complex and knowledge-intensive
  products
• Ex Medical technology, communication,
  recreation/health and security

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Five main fields of operation
Innovation Knowledge (IK)
Models for assessing innovative capability
Research in innovation, Research for innovation
New products New companies
Innovation Management (IM)
Innovation Business (IB)
Rotation programs PIEp Trainee
Implementation and evaluation of innovation models
Creative sessions Learning networks
Innovation Experience (IE)
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Flow and Interaction
Innovation support network
New Entrepreneurs New Products New Companies

• Authorities
• University holding companies
• Incubators
• Venture capital

Innovation Business (IB)
Education Research school
Education Students
- Innovation Engineering
Education Teachers
- Creative coaching
Innovation Experience (IE)

• Exchange programs
• Projects
• Learning networks

Innovation Management (IM)

• Production of innovations
• Models for assessing ability

Industry and Business
Innovation Knowledge (IK)

• Global corporations
• SME
• Institutes

- Research in innovation, - Research for
innovation
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Flow and Interaction
Innovation support network
New Entrepreneurs New Products New Companies

• Authorities
• University holding companies
• Incubators
• Venture capital

Innovation Business (IB)
Education Research school
Education Students
- Innovation Engineering
Education Teachers
- Creative coaching
Innovation Experience (IE)

• Exchange programs
• Projects
• Learning networks

Innovation Management (IM)

• Production of innovations
• Models for assessing ability

Industry and Business
Innovation Knowledge (IK)

• Global corporations
• SME
• Institutes

- Research in innovation, - Research for
innovation
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PIEp EDU Focus

• Activities by/for
• Students
• Teachers and coaches
• Doctoral students

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Focus area Students

• PIEp thesis projects
• A set of criteria for PIEp Thesis projects
• Theses distributed and promoted to innovators,
  companies, business coaches
• PIEp promotes and supports courses and individual
  students
• Funding for (inter)national exchange programs in
  innovative environments
• PIEp Thesis Projects in Product Innovation
• 10 thesis projects 07/08 in collaboration with
  Stanford University, 10 more 08/09.
• PIEp Engineering Creativity Challenge
• Annual competition of thesis projects

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Focus area Students

• Summerschools in product innovation and
  entrepreneurship
• Stanford Graduate School of Business Summer
  Institute for Entrepreneurship.
• Summer Programme in International
  Entrepreneurship at Jönköping International
  Business School
• Grants distributed for participation among PIEp
  students
• Internships and international thesis projects
• In med-tech, in the Minneapolis- and Boston-areas
• New modules, courses and programs in Product
  Innovation, (PI)
• To be developed, locally and nationally

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Focus Teachers and Coaches

• Local workshops at node universities
• Workshops in course- and program development,
  promotes best-practices
• International workshops in program development
• _at_Stanford, Oct 07
• _at_Univ of Minneapolis, Nov 07
• Workshops on Creative Coaching
• In collaboration with Stanford University
• First round Aug 07, more rounds to follow

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Focus Teachers and Coaches

• Upcoming workshops at all PIEp nodes
• Umeå Institute of Design
• The role of the industrial designer in product
  development and the design process. Late spring
  2008
• Jönköping University and Jönköping Science Park
• Integrating SMEs and higher education a company
  for each student and a student for each company.
  Fall 2008
• Luleå University of Technology
• Functional product development

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Focus Teachers and Coaches, to be developed

• Summer School in PI
• For research students and educators, shared
  between PIEp and Zhejiang University, Shanghai
• One week_at_KTH and one week_at_Zhejiang during August
  2008
• Best-practices in Science Parks and Education
• Project to investigate and promote collaborative
  practices between Science parks and education in
  PI
• Mobility program for educators
• Promotes movement between industry and academia
• Promotes international movement
• Network/Body for innovation educators
• Towards licensing/certifying educators

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Focus Doctoral students

• National Graduate School in Product Innovation
• Kick-off/Launch 2008, with 25 students
• Innovation research related kick-off at Stanford
  University April 08
• Med-tech-related kick-off in Minneapolis April 08
• Graduate School promotes networks
• The graduate school gathers research and
  researchers in innovation engineering, together
  with the IK/IM field
• Graduate School promotes mobility
• Doctoral students are supported and promoted to
  participate in meetings, networks and courses
  both on a national and international level

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Focus Doctoral students

• Graduate School provides certification
• Requirements for certification are Extensive and
  impeccable research in the field of PI,
  international exchange, industrial rotation,
  national network, participation in product
  development projects
• Graduate School promotes networks of supervisors
• Each doctoral student is supervised by a team of
  researchers, innovators and business coaches
• Graduate School offers courses and workshops
• In product innovation engineering, thematic,
  cross-disciplinary and hands-on
• Graduate School promotes new products and
  businesses
• Not instead, but as a complement to a doctoral
  thesis

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Ideas for the future

• Focus area Industrial Collaboration
• Can we pipe funding from industrial partners to
  innovative students? (Thesis projects, stipends,
  scholarships, patent applications etc)
• Can we establish pipes between innovative
  students and innovation hunters/corporate
  partners? How do we create settings where those
  meet?
• Can we establish a better collaboration between
  science parks, innovators and students? Can our
  students practice innovation with innovators?

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Offers to Industrial Collaborators

• The PIEp corporate partners can benefit from PIEp
  by participating with ideas and concepts for
  product development projects. There are several
  models
• PIEp Master thesis projects
• Advanced Student Projects for innovation
  engineering courses, typically at Master or PhD
  candidate level
• Advanced Student Projects for design innovation
  courses where PIEp co-operates with Stanford
  University. Master thesis level.

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Industrial Collaboration

• Outcome
• While results cannot be guaranteed, these
  projects and courses typically have an
  outstanding IP creation track record.
• Access and contact with innovative students
• Intellectual Property Rights (IPR)
• To be agreed separately for each project
• Fee
• Depending of project and IPR agreement. Agreed
  separately for each project.

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PIEp EDU Organization, contacts

• LTH
• Fredrik Nilsson, Mikael Blomé, Nina Reistad
• Jönköping
• Helén Andersson, Jens Hultmark, Mikael Cederfeldt
• Designhögskolan Umeå Universitet
• Bengt Palmgren, Monica Lindh-Karlsson, Birgitta
  Nordholm, Daniel Fällman
• CTMH
• Bertil Gonzalez Guve
• LTU
• Tobias Larsson, Andreas Larsson, Peter Törlind,
  Mikael Andersson
• KTH
• Martin Grimheden, Mats Hanson, Jan Wikander