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Biography

Sten Ekman is senior researcher in Innovation Science & Management with focus on design inspired innovation and innovation management. He holds a PhD from The Royal Institute of Technology (KTH) with research in Sweden and Japan. He has been head of department of Innovation, Design and Product Development (IDP) 2000-2005, initiated and implemented a multiscientific milieu and was therefore awarded “the entrepreneur of the year in academic leadership” in Sweden in 2001. He is co-author of the book “Design Inspired Innovation” (2006) together with partners in USA, UK and Italy. Currently he is co-leader of the DeVIP research project on design and innovation and collaborating with Indian, US and Italian partners on design, creativity, innovation and management since 2006.

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Research projects

On-going:
• DeEP - Design in European Policies
• DeVIP


Finished:
• Integrating industrial design strategy within Innovation and Product Realization

Supervised Ph D students

• Mikael Johnsson  (assistant supervisor)