News from SDU TEI

The Cobots are coming - and they bring job satisfaction

In the report 'Cobots i dansk produktion' (in Danish) written by Danish Technological Institute in collaboration with Aarhus University and University of Southern Denmark it is established that a new generation of robots - the socalled Cobots - has a huge potential for increasing a company's production capacity and at the same time a Cobot increases work satisfaction among employees and helps attact new and skilled manpower.

MCI Honorary Professor receives Endowed Chair and new institute

Honorary Professor and former Head of the Technology Entrepreneurship and Innovation (TEI) section at MCI receives Endowed Chair “Entrepreneurship in Technology and Digitization” at the University of Stuttgart.

PhD thesis defence by Ali Ahmad Malik

PhD Student Ali Ahmad Malik will defend his PhD thesis on the topic "Flexible Lean Automation Human-Robot Teams driven by Digital Twins".

Justin Chanwook from University of Kaist connected as Research Assistant to the TEI section

Justin is connected to research projects in the section regarding new innovative digitalized products.

Assistant Professor Elias Ribeiro da Silva has been appointed coordinator of the international Supply Chain 4.0 Network

The mission of the network is to foster collaboration on fundamental and applied research related to Supply Chain Management in the context of Industry 4.0.

PhD thesis defence by David Grube Hansen

PhD Student David Grube Hansen will defend his PhD thesis on the topic "In short: The SMEs need to become ready for automation, and the automation need to become ready for the SMEs".

Norbert-Thom Innovation Award

The University of Southern Denmark visited the annual conference of “quer.kraft – der Innovationsverein e.V.” in Nuremberg. As one of seven jury members of the “Norbert-Thom-Innovationspreis”, Associate Professor Tim Schweisfurth, helped to preselect three outstanding master theses and award the most innovative one.

SDU TEI contributes to book on Entrepreneurial Universities

Ideas from Lead Users get implemented and diffused more often

The TEI section hosts the Entrepreneurship and Innovation for Sustainability (SDU-EIS) Doctoral Consortium

Entrepreneurship and Global Challenges

In January 2017 SDU's section of Technology Entrepreneurship and Innovation had the great pleasure of co-organizing the 7th International Leuphana Conference on Entrepreneurship in Luneburg, Germany.

Innovation book published in Chinese

MCI Researcher’s book gets published in a Chinese translation

Lessons learned from Steve Jobs' way of presenting

Steve Jobs has undoubtedly been a genius in successful product presentations. His charismatic style is a great example for speakers in any setting.

Students won trip to Uvex in Southern Germany and sold their idea to the company

Engineering students from the study program Innovation and Business got a great idea and won a trip to the company Uvex in Southern Germany – and convinced Uvex to proceed working with the concept.

AutomationsBoost to help small and medium-sized Danish production companies

New project will provide new automation solutions and digitalization to small and medium-sized enterprises of the region

Expert jury rubber-stamped student project

Engineering students from Innovation and Business presented new business concepts to an expert jury

Alumni from Innovation and Business met at Alsion

Alumni from Innovation and Business met again this year and visited Alsie Express as part of the event

The Bitten and Mads Clausen Foundation supports Innovation Lab with 1 mill. DKK

Thanks to a generous donation by the Bitten and Mads Clausen Foundation, the section SDU Innovation and Design Engineering of the Mads Clausen Institute, SDU, can now implement a well-designed innovation lab.

New framework for responsible development and innovation

MCI-project publishes framework for responsible development and innovation in industrial companies.

Opening of Green Water Living Lab

The sea water energy project Green Water celebrated opening of Living Lab.