Project, Innovations and Entrepreneurship (PIE)

The Division of Project, Innovations and Entrepreneurship 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.

Our work covers three main areas:

Industrial project management, which covers planning and management of technology and product development and innovation activities in project-based organisations.
Innovation, which includes studies of industrial emergence and renewal, technology and innovation strategies and innovation management in large and small companies and organisations.
Entrepreneurship, business planning and regional development, which focuses on early development phases in knowledge-intensive businesses.

Leadership and organisation are recurrent themes in all three areas – both in education and in research.

Undergraduate and graduate educationShow/Hide content

We teach within the subject areas of industrial management, leadership, innovation management and product development, project management, entrepreneurship, idea development and work science.

Our courses are student-centered, where the role of the teacher is to create a fruitful and inspiring study environment with the intended learning outcomes in focus. We design learning processes by combining personal development with research-based analyses and studies of and at companies. Our pedagogy is based on active learning and we use, among other things, experience- and theory-based exercises, in which students get to apply the knowledge they have gained. This requires our students to take a large responsibility for their own learning – as well as the learning of their classmates – and see themselves as co-creators of the knowledge that is developed in the courses.

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Research is conducted in four main research fields. Within the field of Innovation Studies, we study innovation processes at an aggregate level: in technology fields, industries and sectors. Within the field of Technology Management, we study the relationship between technology and innovation strategies of industrial companies and long-term technological and strategic change processes. Within the field of Innovation Management, we study how innovation processes can be organised and lead within and between companies. Within the field of Entrepreneurship and Regional Development, we study early idea development and young, emerging firms as well as the role of universities and public support systems in national and regional development.

HELIX Competence Centre

HELIX Competence Centre is a multidisciplinary research center at Linköping University, working with questions related to working life on the basis of a partnership between universities, industry, public sector and labor organisations.

NICER

This is a new and larger research initiative focusing on the sparsely researched management implications of increasingly complex intelligent systems.

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Circular economy and startups

A transformation to a circular economy will depend on the strategic actions of policymakers and businesses. The aim of this project is to develop knowledge on how to support startups developing circular business models.

Collaboration with industry and public sector organisationsShow/Hide content

The division's ambition is to support decision-making in industry, government agencies, and other organisations, such as incubators and industry associations.

We collaborate with partners outside academia, both in research projects and in contract education. We also diffuse our research results through workshops, seminars and publications in both scientific and popular media.

Contract education

The division has a long history of managing contract education, especially in collaboration with the Centre of Innovation and Entrepreneurship (CIE) and the business network SMIL, where Entrepreneurship, Development and Management Programmes are offered with the purpose of stimulating development and growth in technology- and knowledge-intensive companies.

We collaborate with a range of different organisations. Throughout the years, we have participated in a number of collaborative education projects together with, e.g. Saab Automobile, Scania, FOI and several municipalities and regional councils.

NewsShow/Hide content

Energy and innovations boost the Swedish paper industry

The Swedish pulp and paper industry could significantly improve its competitiveness by linking innovation with savings in energy consumption. This is the conclusion of recently completed research project at LiU.

A digital workshop brings a global perspective to the crisis

It started as a meeting in the coffee room (which was starting to feel rather empty), and ended with a workshop with participants from three continents. The coronacrisis is forcing the development of new research and new ways of collaborating.

Increasing the employability of doctoral graduates

Newly promoted doctoral graduates often have difficulty finding a job meeting both their expectations and skills. In order to increase their employability, doctoral graduates, employers and universities must be prepared to act.

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Head of Division

Director of Studies

Director of Studies

General Information

Staff

Ehab Abu Sa'a

PhD student

Martin Andreasson

Appu Balachandran

PhD student

Christian Berggren

Professor emeritus

Stefan Bernat

Dzamila Bienkowska

Senior Lecturer

Eduardo Cadorin

Karl Eldebo

Adjunct Assistant Lecturer

José Adalberto Franca

Mineta Galijasevic

Eloïse Germain

Charlotta Hartzell

Adjunct Assistant Lecturer

Gunnar Holmberg

Adjunct Professor

Solmaz Filiz Karabag

Associate Professor

Magnus Klofsten

Professor

Nicolette Lakemond

Professor

Eva Lovén

Senior Lecturer

Cia Lundvall

Thomas Magnusson

Professor

Martin Mileros

Charlotte Norrman

Senior Lecturer

Rune Olsson

Annika Rickne

Adjunct Professor

Jörgen Sandin

Assistant Lecturer

Dag Swartling

Senior Lecturer

Elinor Särner

PhD student

Bijona Troqe

PhD student

Viktor Werner

PhD student

Anna Yström

Associate Professor

Youshan Yu

PhD student

Address

Visiting Address

Division of Project, Innovations and Entrepreneurship

Hans Meijers väg

A Building, entrance 13-19

Campus Valla

Linköping, Sweden

Postal Address

Linköping University

Department of Management and Engineering

Division of Project, Innovations and Entrepreneurship

SE-581 83 Linköping

Sweden

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Department of Management and Engineering

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

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.

Project, Innovations and Entrepreneurship (PIE)

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