Free returns – friend or foe?
Free returns are common in e-commerce, and can instill confidence in customers who order clothes and shoes that can be difficult to evaluate by screen alone. But free returns are also a burden on the environment and in many cases a great financial burden for the company, and now retailers are trying various solutions to the problem, including [...]
PODCAST: Patient-centred Packaging Design and Innovation
Why is pharmaceutical packaging shifting to a more patient-centric design?
Why Sweden loves food in tubes
"Why are there so many food tubes in Sweden?" The YouTube channel Great Big Story wants to know. They turn to Karla Marie Paredes, Ph.D. Student in Innovation Engineering, at Design Sciences, Lund University, who wrote her master thesis on this very subject back in 2013.
PUBLISHED ARTICLE: Sustainable supply chain innovations
“The challenges of sustainable development require whole supply chains and networks to drive change and innovation.”
PANEL DISCUSSION: The sustainable e-commerce of the future
"Campus Vänner" has arranged a digital panel discussion on the sustainable e-commerce of the future together with Johanna Allhorn from ehandel.se and Daniel Hellström from ReLog, Campus Helsingborg and Packaging Logistics, Lund University.
New Master Theses aim at contributing to knowledge about sustainability and business models
Sustainable development, digitalisation and business models are topics that interest Innovation Engineering´s twenty new degree students. They have just started their Master Theses Projects where they – together with industry and business – explore various issues to contribute to new knowledge and societal benefits. Some project theme examples [...]
What place does plastic have in packaging?
Plastic in packaging is a widely discussed topic, and one frequent participant in these discussions is Katrin Molina-Besch, researcher in Packaging Logistics at the Faculty of Engineering, Lund University.
Entrepreneurial Ecosystems – dissertation in Innovation Engineering 12 February
Which actors and factors are important for new innovative companies to be successful? Janna Alvedalen raises the question in her Innovation Engineering dissertation "Entrepreneurial Ecosystems in Life Science Industry". In her research, Janna Alvedalen focuses on the concept of entrepreneurial ecosystems and explores how these systems affect [...]