Charlotte Norrman

Senior associate professor

I am senior associate professor within the area of industrial organization. I love innovation and entrepreneurship – both in my research and in my role as teacher at LiU.

I am passionate about innovation and entrepreneurship!

Innovation and entrepreneurship are my main research interests. As a researcher, I started my career focusing on the development processes of new companies - how early-stage ideas develop.

I am an innovation and entrepreneurship researcher and have been since I started my PhD studies here at LiU in 2003. Over the years, I have worked with evaluation of policy initiatives, biomedical engineering innovation ideas and invention-driven innovation. I have also worked a lot with innovation and entrepreneurship in green industries and agriculture.

Right now, I work a lot with the combination of entrepreneurship/innovation, education and business development and how it can strengthen the regional innovation system and contribute to sustainable welfare in society.

Teaching innovation and entrepreneurship

I teach entrepreneurship, innovation and idea development mostly at the Faculty of Technology, but also at other parts of LiU, e.g. the Healthcare faculty. I am interested in pedagogy and especially experimentally oriented pedagogy that connects to entrepreneurship and what is called "challenge-based learning". This has a close connection to ECIU-university, the European educational initiative in which LiU is one of more than a dozen universities involved parties. Working internationally is fun and provides perspective and inspiration for development at home. I am also involved in the CDIO network and have written several conference papers presented at the annual CDIO conference.

Spread of knowledge

At my google scholar profile you can find examples of my work.

I also like to spread my findings and ideas orally, so contact me if you are interested in what I do.

Charlotte speaks about challenge based education at a seminar in Twente Show/Hide content

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Students pitched ideas to regional network: real-world experience

“A bit like Dragons’ Den, but not really”. That was the heading, as ambassadors from the regional support system East Sweden Business Region, ESBR, gathered to give their feedback on innovative ideas from LiU students.

Rasmus Elmersson, Oliwer Schultz, Madeleine Edenfeldt Hellgren and Tuva Bernwall

First prize for smart waste sorting

For four months, three students that take the eight-credit course Ingenious, have been working on real challenges from companies and organisations. They have five minutes to present their ideas. Reangle, smart waste sorting, was this year’s winner.

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What ECIU University is for you

The ECIU University community is growing, with new teachers, staff and students joining all over Europe. Some of them have already participated in ECIU University activities: creating modules or solving challenges. So we asked them: “What is ECIU University for you”?

Article from R&D Today

How to design an innovation challenge - learning points and great canvas tool

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Project, Innovations and Entrepreneurship (PIE)

The division is involved in research, undergraduate and graduate education and collaboration with industry and public sector organisations in the fields of project management, innovation and entrepreneurship.

Department of Management and Engineering (IEI)

The Department of Management and Engineering (IEI) strengthens and develops tomorrow’s industry, business world and society by ground-breaking research, education and innovation.

Studenthuset on Campus Valla in Linköping

About LiU

Linköping University, LiU, offers innovative education and boundary-crossing research. The students are among the most desirable in the labour market and international rankings consistently place LiU as a leading global university.