Blekinge Institute of Technology

BTH researcher and associate professor Marco Bertoni, is to head a global special interest group in Product-Service Systems research. Its objective is to facilitate the mutual interaction between the community of design researchers and industry. BTH researchers Marco Bertoni and Tobias Larsson are now the chairs of a new Special Interest Group with focus on Product-Service Systems (PSS). The group is part of the Design Society, an interdisciplinary community of academics and industry practitioners sharing the goal of developing and promoting a robust, usable and scalable means of designing complex solutions for future sustainable and globalised societies. – The group is a community which brings together individuals and groups with a shared interest in advancing the discipline of Product-Service Systems design, Marco Bertoni explains. The topic of PSS design has gathered plentiful interest in the research community in the last few years. Integrating traditional product-based offers with value-added services is appealing to better fulfil customer demands, improve sales, be competitive […]

BTH participated as an exclusive international guest at the Vice-chancellor’s conclave of all India technological universities that was recently held at Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University Anantapur, Anantapur, Andhra Pradesh, India. India’s education leaders and heads of the apex (regulatory and accrediting) bodies in the scene of Indian higher education, Vice-chancellors from sixty-five technical universities, and head of institutions from three hundred technical colleges from different parts of India participated. The invitation was extended as a result of ongoing successful cooperation with Indian university, especially with the public universities of Andhra Pradesh for the last 14 years. Andreas Larsson, deputy Vice-chancellor and Gurudutt Velpula, deputy Director of International Affairs together represented the BTH in the conclave. The conclave provided the future directions to the Vice-chancellors about the upcoming “national educational policy”, and the new initiatives to be taken to create quality human resource who can cater the needs of the changing global society. The  spectrum of important issues such as challenges, quality, […]