Last Friday, the Minister for Health and Social Affairs Lena Hallengren inaugurated BTH’s new research and education clinic. It is unique in its kind in that it combines innovation, implementation and education under the same roof. The Minister focused on the major challenges in Swedish health care. We live longer and cure more and more diseases, but as we get older, higher demands are also placed on Swedish health care. -We must collaborate to reach new goals in health care and it must be developed to meet new needs, says Lena Hallengren. However, the Minister has several ideas and ideas on how Swedish welfare should be strengthened: -Academia needs to be innovative and we need to embrace the potential of new technology – that’s why I’m glad to inaugurate this new research and education clinic today, the Minister said. The new health clinic is unique internationally in that it combines innovation, implementation and education. It is a meeting place for […]

BTH is at the top when it comes to influential research according to the Swedish Research Council’s Research Barometer 2019. BTH is second just after Karolinska institutet. BTH’s Vice-Chancellor Mats Viberg comments the result: – It’s great that a small university like BTH can have this top research. We have significantly less research resources than the major universities and this is of course reflected in our publication volume. But we still manage to maintain a high quality in what we do, and I think that is the most important thing. The Swedish Research Council recently published its Research barometer for 2019. In the barometer they compare the impact of the universities’ research by looking at the citation rate. Measuring the degree of citation, i.e. how many times a published research article is cited by other researchers, is the most common way of measuring how influential the research is. The impact of research is measured as the proportion of highly cited […]