Professor Bo Edvardsson summarizes and reflects on a new book chapter and provides guidance on how to become more successful when developing new services.
Businesses and other organizations need to renew themselves to survive in fast changing markets. This is today even more important than ever before.
CRE8® is a model for innovation-challenge events, developed by the Grants and Innovation Office at Karlstad University. A public or private organization provides a real-world operational challenge to which teams of students try to find solutions. Since it was first introduced in 2017, the CRE8® model has become a very successful concept. With funding from Erasmus+, Karlstad University is now training facilitators to run CRE8® events around Europe.
The proposal development step, also commonly referred to as the pre-award phase represents the beginning of the research project lifecycle, which includes drafting proposals, setting up collaborations, budgeting, compliance check, reviewing and submission. The Pre-award checklist and sections below provide support during the proposal development step.
Education is obviously a valuable investment - it gives you possibilities. A good education is the ticket to your future career, but it is the actual knowledge that is the key to your own ability to think and reflect.
To achieve better effects in healthcare, new technological innovations should be implemented alongside structural changes.
We often associate the word “innovation” with the roll-out of a new product, the success or failure of which is determined by market forces.
Valerie Margrain
Karlstad University
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Gisela Priebe
Karlstad University
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Elisabet Mellroth
Karlstad University and Karlstads kommun
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Michael Tengberg
Karlstad University
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We wish all our students, colleagues, alumni, and partners a peaceful Christmas and a Happy New Year.
At Karlstad Business School, we strive to create an environment where students, teachers, researchers, and professionals can develop socially important knowledge together.
The music industry spends a lot of resources on creating innovative concert experiences, and the relationship between the musicians and their fans. With the show Abba Voyage, a giant step is taken towards developing and transforming an already digital industry.
Live case studies are a good way to learn and provide a feeling of being in a professional setting.
In the course Business Development from a Process and Partnership Perspective, students at Karlstad Business School have been given the opportunity to collaborate with several organisations. Students have been helping to map out business processes and develop improved work procedures using digitalisation.
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Here we explain common concepts related to the study and work environment, discrimination, and how these concepts differ from one another. The information is based on the Swedish Discrimination Act and the Swedish Work Environment Authority's regulations on Organizational and Social Work Environment.
Conflicts and unfair treatment are not the same as discrimination.
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Lennart Käll is the chair of Sveriges Radio (Swedish Broadcasting), board member of SJ (Swedish Rail), Grönklittsgruppen, Länsförsäkringar, Grant Thornton and previously chief executive to multiple big companies, latest Svenska Spel. He has a degree in Business and Economics from Karlstad Business School (then part of Karlstad University College).
Education is obviously a valuable investment - it gives you possibilities.
Project managers Ebba Hilden, Annica Löfdahl Hultman and Katarina Ribaeus
Project description
The Swedish preschool is in a long-standing change from content-based focus to subject didactic teaching and learning environments, from children’s development in groups to a greater focus on children’s individual learning and development. Not least, new forms of distribution, responsibility and management of the work with the children have been implemented.
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This page presents some courses in English for exchange students at the Karlstad Business School.
You can also browse all courses in English at Karlstad University
AGILE LEADERSHIP (Business administration) 7.5 ECTS CREDITS
Agile Leadership is a course aimed at those who want to improve their ability to lead in a complex and changing world.
Successful companies and organisations distinguish themselves by creating new innovations and a
In this blog article, CERS director and CTF’s advisory board member Kristina Heinonen shares some reflections of what is “hot” in service research and how research centers like CTF and CERS are making a difference in today’s society.
The fast pace of political, economic, and social change is reshaping the global landscape. Are researchers and business professionals keeping up and exploring solutions to society’s most pressing issues?
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This is the blog Words from our senior management, authored by vice-chancellor Jerker Moodysson, pro-vice-chancellor Margareta Friman, pro-vice-chancellor Patrik Larsson and university director Anne-Christine Larsson Ljung.
WORDS FROM SENIOR MANAGEMENT: A WARM WELCOME 2026-09-14A new autumn semester has just begun.
Art History and Visual Studies is concerned with how people have expressed themselves by giving shape to these expressions through images and forms since they first developed the means to do so, through to today’s prolific flood of images and contemporary art.
Our research explores the social dynamics of political and economic inclusion and exclusion. Racism, as an ideology and everyday practice, constitutes an integral part of this focus, as do discourses on cultural values in contemporary processes of both conflict and convivial coexistence.
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2026-09-29 AI in Web Development education"We saw that the students used AI whether they were allowed to or not," says Pierre Sjöberg, teacher of Information Systems. "We tested a round of exams with AI bans, but it didn't work.
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Elin Skau, why did you choose Karlstad Business School?
- I chose it both because I come from Värmland but also because I heard very good things about the school and student life. The Business School has a super nice campus with good connections to the city centre.
What expectations did you have for the Human resource management and working life program - and were they met?
- I had the expectation of gaining a greater and broader understanding of working life and organizations.
Are you worrying about making money last until the next pay day during Christmas? Are you already regretting purchasing that electronic gadget you thought was so necessary during Black Friday?
After the recent hacker attacks in which the university's IT supplier Tietoevry, amongst others, was affected, it becomes clear how quickly organizations can become target of such actions. Meiko Jensen, lecturer in cybersecurity at computer science, helps us clarify the areas of hacking and cybersecurity.
Hi Meiko Jensen.
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2026Abadzhiev, A., Tronvoll, B., Sörhammar, D., & Johnson, M. (2026). Circularity in motion: Rethinking strategy for circular business models. Process Organization Studies (PROS) Conference, Chania, Greece 25 - 28 Juni 2026.Abadzhiev, A., Sukhov, A., & Johnson, M. (2026). Circular business models in tension: How incumbents manage strategies of disruption, accumulation, and preservation.
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The Aesthetics of Evil: Memory and Media in Nazi Perpetrator Fiction. (Alexander Kofod-Jensen)
PhD Project with internal funding (2016-2021)
My PhD project explores how memory and intermediality work in contemporary novels on World War II.
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UserInvolve: Development of sustainable practices for user involvement in the field of mental health
Research program for the development and implementation of user involvement.
UserInvolve (umu.se)
Funded by Forte from 2021 – 2027 Host institution: Umeå University Participating researcher: Katarina Grim
Epistemic (in)justice and barriers to knowledge integration: Development of a checklist and discussion framework for legitimizing user knowledge in the field of mental health
A projec
