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CDTs mission is to generate sustainable business innovation. We offer an integrated environment for business driven research and development projects in the area of advanced information, interaction and communication technology. At CDT people make impact - together!
About CDT
Emerging new interaction, information and communication technology brings man-kind increasingly powerful means to sense, communicate, interact and execute activities over distance in space and time. Technology with extraordinary such empowering potential are for instance mobilized Internet, networked sensor systems, advanced solutions for distributed collaboration. We call such technology distance-spanning technology. It is our core business and it radically transforms the way we all live, work and do business. CDT offers an integrated environment of people, infrastructure, tools, processes and services for research, development and test (RDT) of new and emerging distance-spanning technologies and its applications. Our role is to support our partners and customers in embracing the new opportunities, encounter the risks and fully understand their own transformation potential. One of our specialities is to generate and exploit ground-breaking innovations with and for our partners. Innovations may be in shape of new processes, new solutions, new products and new business. Occasionally we create new offspring companies for exploitation of innovations of perceived high market potential. Our organizational fundament is a contractual partnership between Luleå University of Technology and commercial IT companies. The University is host and legal body for our operations, a board of directors with industrial majority sets our strategic directions and a core management team is responsible for tactical planning and daily operations. Our integrated projects very much depend on collaboration between people from different organisations. Since our main competence, resources and projects are distributed we use advanced collaborative tools to promote intensive spontaneous cross-organisation interaction and accomplish a critical blend and mass of competences. Our means of operation essentially comprises three ingredients; partnership programmes, research integration and innovation management: Partnership for New Business
Advanced distance-spanning technology instruments continuous transformation of virtually all types of business. Based on regular forecasts, we select business segments, engage partners and jointly form what we call strategic partnership programmes or Partnership for New Business. In context of the partnership programmes, we analyze and define driving scenarios, that is, transformation descriptions. Based on driving scenarios, we initiate and conduct prototype-driven projects for research, development and test of new products, new services and new business models. Research Integration
The driving scenarios are complex, so our projects rely on our ability to define and integrate a suitable blend of different organisations and competences. We call this Research Integration and it includes integration of different research areas. It also includes integration between academic and commercial objectives and perspectives. A successful blend of needs, thoughts, views, competences and cultures is one of the most important factors behind ground-breaking innovations. Innovation Management
Ability to generate innovations is one thing. Bringing innovation to new business is another, and we do both. Each ground-breaking innovation is unique (by definition) and it is inherently difficult, also for the innovators, to fully grasp its nature and potential. Hence, efficient exploitation of each innovation represents a unique management challenge. Our Innovation Management processes relays heavily on our network of senior entrepreneurs. More information on: www.cdt.ltu.se Contact information: Marita Holst CDT Luleå University of Technology SE 97187 Luleå SWEDEN
Phone: +46 70 646 54 14
Skype: marita_h
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