Centre for Business Model Innovation (CBMI)

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The Centre for Business Model Innovation (CBMI) is a research and knowledge centre dedicated to understanding how companies can create sustained competitive advantage through innovative business models. Our research focuses on value creation and capture for individual companies, industrial ecosystems, and society at large.

CBMI’s research is at the forefront of international research and is conducted in close collaboration with both business and public organisations.

Business model innovation is a key strategy for businesses to stay competitive in today’s dynamic market environment. It involves addressing the customer value proposition and the processes of value creation and value capture.

Graph in blue green colours showing that Business model Innovation contains, Value Proposition, Value Creation and Value Capture

  • The Value Proposition is a promise of resource integration and alignment that offers a superior value package to targeted stakeholders.
  • Value Creation is the process of increasing value generation.
  • Value Capture is the process of securing returns from the value created and distributing those returns among the participating actors.

Business model innovation is about more than just designing new processes. It’s about ensuring these processes are adaptable, aligned, and can work across organisational boundaries. It involves a shared commitment to creating value and ensuring its fair distribution. In essence, it’s not just about what we create, but how we create and share it. This holistic approach is what sets successful businesses apart.

Research is primarily carried out across three research tracks:

  • Servitization, customer solutions, and service business models
  • Proactive market strategies
  • Value chain sustainability

For any questions, please contact the director of the centre, Professor Christian Kowalkowski, or any of the senior researchers responsible for the research tracks.

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Research tracks

Recent publications

2024

Christian Kowalkowski, Wolfgang Ulaga (2024) Subscription offers in business-to-business markets: Conceptualization, taxonomy, and framework for growth Industrial Marketing Management, Vol. 117, p. 440-456 Continue to DOI
Staffan Brege, Johan Holtström, Anna Öhrwall Rönnbäck (2024) Innovativa startup-företag i scaleup-/effektivitetsfasen: En trenivåmodell för analys av tillväxt, skalbarhet, konkurrensfördelar och lönsamhet
Johan Holtström, Sarah Semnani Kenlind, Tomas Nord (2024) Project-based business models in the construction industry - key success factors for sustainable timber extension projects Construction Management and Economics Continue to DOI

2023

Jonas Holmqvist, Christian Kowalkowski (2023) Traceability in luxury: Harnessing B2B relationships to enhance ethical practices in the luxury industry Industrial Marketing Management, Vol. 111, p. 257-267 Continue to DOI
Emelie Havemo (2023) Sustainable Trajectories for Business Model Innovation Journal of Business Models, Vol. 11, p. 58-67 Continue to DOI

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