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Extreme PSS Innovation 2017/18 completed

Christian Johansson — Fri, 12 Jan 2018 08:21:00 +0000

In the Extreme PSS Innovation course, students from BTH’s masters programmes in Mechanical Engineering, Industrial Management and Engineering, and Sustainable Product-Service System Innovation (MSPI) are given challenges from real industrial companies to solve. The course is a central part of BTH’s mantra “In Real Life”.

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Value Innovation ‘real life’ projects 2016

Christian Johansson — Fri, 09 Dec 2016 12:58:59 +0000

How many types of innovation are there? One can argue that innovation is incremental, radical or disruptive, and that many other models are proposed. But when it comes down to ‘real life’ action, how do companies innovate to create value for their customers?

MT2536 Value Innovation is a course in the Master Programme that every year gives students the opportunity to experience the multifaceted nature of product/service innovation in development projects conducted in collaboration with company partners.

This years’ course featured projects in different domains, ranging from the development of health care technologies to boat cleaning.

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PSS Extreme Innovation 2015/16 Completed

Christian Johansson — Wed, 03 Feb 2016 23:10:38 +0000

This years’ breed of Innovative product development students from three different programs have come together to address challenges from four different partner organizations.

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Wearable Technology Innovation: Student Projects in the KEE Course

Christian Johansson — Fri, 22 Jan 2016 23:15:12 +0000

Wearable technology is a trending topic in society, therefore it was chosen as showcase for this year's student projects in the Knowledge Enabled Engineering course.

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Application for Autumn 2016 opens!

Christian Johansson — Wed, 11 Nov 2015 12:25:38 +0000

The application for the MSPI Autumn 2016 round has now opened.

Application portal at University Admissions.

You apply on University Admissions.

For additional information about MSPI, how to apply, and how to get in contact with us, please see the information below.

MSPI – For a better world!

Join a cutting edge product-service innovation program!

What is, and why MSPI?

For product- and service system innovation there is a unique possibility to support the shift towards and development of a sustainable society. The programme includes concepts, methods, and tools within the subareas of design thinking, strategic sustainable development, product- and service development, creativity and innovation engineering, modeling and simulation-driven design, and lifecycle modeling.

How to apply?

More information, requirements, and guidelines for applying to the Master’s in Sustainable Product-Service System Innovation programme.

Contact us

Contact info for MSPI directors.

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What is, and why MSPI?

Tobias Larsson — Sun, 01 Nov 2015 06:55:11 +0000

MSPI Perspectives

Programme description

For product and service system innovation, there is a unique possibility to support and speed up society’s development towards sustainability. The effects of resource extraction, production, distribution, usage, and disposal of products that we see today on ecological and social systems show that current methods for product and service innovation are not sufficient. Positive and negative consequences during the entire life cycle of a product are largely decided through the decisions that are made already during early phases of the innovation process. Hence, it is important to integrate a sustainability perspective in the methodology for product and service system innovation. Also, the competitiveness of a company highly depends on the ability to create innovative products and services, both through value adding activities and through reduced cost in development.

Increasingly more companies request skills for sustainable product and service system innovation to strengthen their competitiveness on an increasingly sustainability-driven global market. There is today a shortage of such competence and this program aims to decrease this shortage.

The main field of study of the program is mechanical engineering with emphasis on the profiling areas at BTH: sustainability, innovation, and systems engineering (applied IT).

Learning outcomes

The program includes concepts, methods and tools within the subareas of strategic sustainable development, strategic life-cycle modeling and simulation, creativity and innovation methodology, concept generation, product planning, product- and service development and innovation, design methodologies, modeling and simulation-driven design, product realization and systems engineering.

Those who work with product, and service innovation (development of innovative solutions) must have skills in strategic sustainable development and have the ability to evaluate the positive and negative socio-ecological influence of a product during its life cycle, as well as the related economic preconditions and implications, together with knowledge of the value-adding properties of the product solution.

In addition to the nationally regulated aims, further academic aims apply to the education. More specifically, this means that the student should be able to:

analyze sustainability challenges for an organization in a scientific way.
use new methods and tools and engineering skills, to work with sustainable product and service system innovation in the industry.
support a change towards a more value- and service-oriented economy.

An important aim of the program is that the students should obtain good insight in and knowledge of how different companies work. The students will already at an early point during the education complete course modules in companies.

Why Blekinge? Why Sweden? Why MSPI?

Here is an interview with Mark Simmons, a Canadian designer who graduated from the first round of MSPI. Check out what Mark has to say about how he found out about MSPI, what it’s like to live and study and Karlskrona, and a few other things.

And here is an interview with Tony Thompson, a former Ph.D. student who helped to initiate the MSPI program. Check out what Tony has to say about the importance of the program!

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MSPI Master Thesis Presentations 2015

Christian Johansson — Mon, 08 Jun 2015 14:49:48 +0000

MSPI Master thesis presentations
Thursday June 11 13:00 – 15:00
Location: A303 Monsunen

13:00 – 13:30
Title: Building Business Model to Help Karskrona Makerspace Increase Funding and Sell Memberships
Presenter: Xin Li
Opponent: Filippo Lee

13:30 – 14:00
Title: The opportunities of data utilization in the Internet-based weather forecast company
Presenter: Jun Che
Opponent: Cheng Tao

14:00 – 14:30
Title: PSS for Functional Offering of Automotive Fixtures using Knowledge Enabled Engineering Techniques
Presenter: Filippo Lee
Opponent: Jun Che

14:30 – 15:00
Title: Support of decision-making in preliminary design of product-service systems by value models
Presenter: Cheng Tao
Opponent: Xin Li

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Join a cutting edge innovation engineering program!

Christian Johansson — Thu, 30 Apr 2015 05:26:37 +0000

Mixing the fields of innovation engineering, service design, and mechanical engineering, with a backdrop of sustainability, the Master’s in Sustainable Product-Service System Innovation is a cutting edge program that addresses society’s sustainability challenges by innovating products and services.

A Design Thinking approach

Industry needs people who understand what the world wants: innovative products and services delivered in the most sustainable way possible. At BTH, we believe that combining an overarching approach to socio-ecological sustainability with a Design Thinking approach to meeting market and human needs through product-service systems is the way of the future, and we are doing our part to show the way.

Close collaboration with industry

By closely collaborating with our industrial partners, we are preparing people to be the next generation of innovators by bringing together engineering, innovation, and sustainability competence through this unique master’s program.

More information

Start out by looking at these sections:

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MSPI – For a better world!

Tobias Larsson — Tue, 01 Mar 2011 12:59:18 +0000

Join a cutting edge product-service innovation program!

Master’s in Sustainable Product-Service System Innovation is an educational program at Blekinge Institute of Technology.

Listen to some words on the programme from previous students and the programme director, Prof. Tobias C. Larsson.

MSPI students learn how to harness their creative talent to design, products, services, and product-service systems that help companies create value, and society to reach socio-ecological sustainability.

MSPI have cornerstones in Innovation, Strategic Sustainable Development, and Product-Service Systems.

Graduates of the program are prepared to drive product innovation that both meets user needs and generates key competitive advantages in the expanding sustainability-driven market.

On these pages you find out more on how to become a part of this program as a student, or as a collaborator.

Feel free to contact us!

Programme Director: Christian Johansson, christian.m.johansson@bth.se.

Professor Tobias C. Larsson, tlr@bth.se.

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Study at BTH

Tobias Larsson — Tue, 01 Mar 2011 02:02:21 +0000

Studying at BTH can be a special experience in different aspects and being a student of MSPI there are extra aspects you can expect to experience.

Karlskrona, a World Heritage

The Master’s Programme in Sustainable Product-Service System Innovation (MSPI) is hosted at Campus Gräsvik, in the city of Karlskrona, the capital of Region Blekinge in the south of Sweden. The city is situated on an archipelago and has been designated a UNESCO World Heritage Site due to its unique naval heritage.

Karlskrona abounds with cultural buildings and its beautiful natural setting makes it a tourist destination in summer, with regular ferries through the archipelago. The island setting means there is good access to beaches and bathing areas, and water sports such as sailing, kayaking, and canoeing are popular. In the winter months there is some snowfall, though Karlskrona’s climate is considered mild compared with more northerly parts of Sweden.

With its 60,000 inhabitants, Karlskrona is large enough to give you necessary conveniences and small enough to provide an intimate and idyllic setting for learning.

BTH student life

With the many undergraduate and postgraduate programmes being completed by students from all over the world, BTH’s student life abounds with diversity. There are opportunities to participate in a range of activities from joining sports and social clubs, to DJ-ing at the student bar, to organising events such as international dinners and creative events of all kinds. Studying at BTH can be a special experience in different aspects and one might get more information about this at other pages of the BTH website, but being a student of MSPI there are extra aspects you can expect to experience.

The MSPI experience

Compared to other programs at BTH, MSPI enjoys a richer degree of diversity not only as in different nationalities but also in professional backgrounds. This becomes evident through projects where different aspects of the issues can be addressed and covered by the team members. Students in MSPI have good opportunities for learning from their classmates who come from many different engineering, industrial design, and related disciplines.

Within the MSPI community itself, what goes on during classes is only part of the overall experience. The diversity of skills and experiences in each class allows for a variety of self-organised activities and ensure you’ll leave Karlskrona with a unique experience and many fond memories. The close friendships formed during the year translate into a strong international alumni network of sustainability colleagues after graduation.

Also within MSPI community, the boundary between academic life and the individual student life is blurred. Almost every MSPI class project and assignment is being done within groups and this helps students to extend their team work skills out of the university also. Many of the MSPI students have defined reactivities outside the MSPI program and it is expected that some of them would extend it to their prospect future professional life.

Studying in the MSPI program also provides the opportunity to explore the Swedish way of life by learning Swedish, visiting cultural attractions and the beautiful natural surroundings, and exploring the activities and initiatives around the country that make Sweden a leading nation on sustainability. There is a lot of co-learning inside MSPI and MSLS programs on the habits of a sustainable life style.

Partnership with MSPI industrial partners provides several opportunities for different field trips, through study visits and different collaboration with industrial leaders. This gives MSPI a vibrant spirit where studying is at the same time challenging with real world problems and keeping up with top-notch innovations in product-service design.

Every course in MSPI is well planned to make sure it is in the expected limits of study hours. Thus students can be sure that while they are supposed to study hard but also have time to experience life.

Essential reading

Some essential reading material from BTH in the matter:

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