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CURRICULUM VITAE – MARIA ELMQUIST FEBRUARY, 2011

This CV contains four parts, (1) Personal information, (2) Scientific qualifications,

(3) Pedagogical qualifications and (4) Qualifications related to the third assignment.

1 – PERSONAL INFORMATION

CONTACT DETAILS

Name: Maria Birgitta Viktoria Elmquist (since Nov 2006, formerly Backman) Address: Stenhuggaregatan 4, 412 59 Göteborg

Contact: [email protected], +46 70-883 95 25 Born: July 16, 1975 in Linköping Nationality: Swedish

Family: Husband Tobias, daughter Signe (born Oct 2009) and cat Nils Homepage: http://www.chalmers.se/tme/SV/organisation/personliga-sidor/elmquist-maria

ACADEMIC DEGREES

2010 Associate Professor (docent) in Technology Management, Chalmers University of Technology (CTH), Gothenburg, (April)

2007 PhD, Technology Management, Chalmers University of Technology (CTH), (dissertation defense February 22).

2001 Master of Science, Industrial Engineering and Management, CTH, Gothenburg

2000 Bachelor of Arts, French (70p) Occupational & Organizational Psychology (40p) English (10p), University of Gothenburg

ACADEMIC POSITIONS

Current positions:

2010- Associate Professor/Researcher, Div. of Innovation Engineering and Management (IEM)/Centre for Business Innovation (CBI), CTH

2008- Affiliated researcher, Centre de Gestion Scientifique, Mines Paristech (Prev. Ecole des Mines de Paris (EdM).

Previous positions

2008 - 2010 Assistant Professor / Researcher, Div. of Innovation Engineering and Management (IEM)/Centre for Business Innovation (CBI), CTH

2007 - 2008 Post doc, Centre de Gestion Scientifique, École des Mines de Paris (EdM), France (One-year-position)

2007 Post doc affiliation, Management and Economics of Technology, CTH and Institute of Management of Innovation and Technology (IMIT)

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2003 - 2007 PhD student, Div. of Project Management (Proj.mgmt) and the FENIX research centre, CTH, Gothenburg

- 2004-2005 Doctoral exchange, EdM, France

2003- 2007 Researcher at IMIT, Gothenburg

2002-2003 Research assistant and coordinator at FENIX / IMIT, Gothenburg

Appointments

2011- Head of Divison, Innovation Management and Engineering, Chalmers (from Sept 1), responsible for 12 co-workers.

2011- Member of the Management team atr the Department of Technology Management and Economics.

2011 - Member of the Academic Board for the doctoral education

2008- Center for Business Innovation (CBI) Faculty

2008- Champs Faculty

2008-2011 Study Director, The Technology Management and Economics PhD student school and coordinator for the Academic board for the doctoral education

2008- 2011 Project manager of the Fenix Management Research community (with Tobias Fredberg)

2008 Responsible for the sales process of the BIP-projects at CBI

LANGUAGES

Swedish Mother Tongue

English Fluent

French Fluent

Spanish Conversational

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2 - SCIENTIFIC QUALIFICATIONS

This part accounts for my research interests, publications, supervision and teaching at PhD student

level, research activities, reviewing and conference activities and my research network/affiliations.

RESEARCH AREA & RESEARCH APPROACH

Research area

My research interest revolves around management of innovation in large, technology-based firms. All my research interests can be connected to how large companies can develop capabilities for innovation, although several themes have emerged as a way of addressing this challenge, mainly open/collaborative innovation and the role of design in innovation.

Developing innovation capabilities

The main theme for my PhD thesis was on how firms can work with developing their innovation capabilities. The empirical studies were mainly been undertaken in the automotive and the pharmaceutical industries. The studies included in my thesis mainly focused on the difficulties of being innovative despite complex and highly structured R&D processes in large firms. I also focused on concept cars as one way of complementing efficient processes with projects that enable learning and knowledge generation. Since my PhD defense I have continued working on this theme with an increased focus on what companies may actually do to be more innovative, amongst others through using a design theory framework to develop actual methods and tools that companies can use. I have also investigated the use of other frameworks such as the Strategic Fitness Profiling model to connect innovation and strategy processes.

Open/Collaborative innovation

This research theme has emerged during my post doc work. It is related to how firms can open up their R&D boundaries to increasingly work with partners and collaborate on innovative projects. The empirical focus lies on the industry of vehicle and traffic safety and include a project on collaborative innovation arenas. The main challenges involve both how to manage and organize collaborative work and how companies can leverage on work that is taking place outside of their own organization. Ongoing studies focus on the managerial aspects of open innovation investigating issues such as identity and political aspects of openness, as well as on how participating firms can leverage on such collaborations.

Design in innovation

This research theme has also emerged during my post doc work. It investigates the role of design in R&D management and innovation. It aims at understanding how companies may collaborate with design firms or use methods and tools coming from the field of design to become more innovative. I work with three PhD students all focusing on different aspects of this theme. The empirical focus remains the automotive industry but also include other industrial settings. Ongoing studies include investigating how large companies can implement design practices to enable innovation and how industrial firms can improve their own innovative capabilities from collaborating with industrial designers.

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Other

In addition to the main themes I have been involved in a number of minor studies and published on various other topics. One area has been “green innovation” or innovation performing on the green dimension, taking a stance in my post-doc project at Ecole des Mines in Paris that focused on eco-innovation in the automotive industry. I have mainly used the environmental challenge in the automotive industry as an interesting setting to understand how large firms are pressured to develop their innovation capabilities. Further, I have worked with the area of research management where I have investigated the managerial challenges of leading academic research programs. I have also researched the area of gendered project management and the area of strategic change.

Research approach

Most of my studies have been conducted as part of collaborative research set-ups. This approach entails that the research projects are defined jointly with industrial partners, ensuring that the issues researched are relevant not only to the academic context but also to the industrial firms. The objective with the research is to generate knowledge that is actionable for the company, i.e. directly useful to them. This research approach is made possible through developing long term partnerships with companies, creating trust that enable a joint knowledge generation, i.e. that the researcher gains access also to sensitive areas. I have mainly worked with Volvo Cars, for instance being allowed to investigate the highly secretive concept car development process and the emergence of a radical innovation process. I have also worked with (or am working with) NovoNordisk, BAE Systems, Ericsson Microwave systems, SAFER Vehicle Safety Center and the Volvo Group in similar collaborations. In this approach, data collection is made through a systematic inquiry process where research questions are emergent and increasingly defined as the project generates more knowledge, including observations, interviews and intervention research methods such as systematic reflection, workshops and seminars.

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PUBLICATIONS

Books

Backman1 M. (2005): Projektledning i strålkastarljuset – en studie av Volvo YCC, Liber, Sweden.

Elmquist M. (2007): Enabling innovation: Exploring the prerequisites for innovative concepts in

R&D, PhD Thesis, Div. of Proj.mgmt, CTH, Gothenburg, Sweden.

Book chapters

Börjesson S. and Elmquist, M. (2012, forthcoming) Att utveckla innovationsförmåga i stora

industriella företag – erfarenheter från Volvo Personvagnar, In Richtnér, A. and Frishammar J. (Eds.), Innovationsledning och kreativitet i svenska företag, Institute for Management of Innovation and Technology.

Elmquist and Segrestin (2011, forthcoming) Towards new R&D processes for sustainable development in the automotive industry: experiencing innovative design, In Calabrese G. (Ed.) The Greening of the Automotive Industry, Palgrave.

Fredberg, T., Elmquist, M., Ollila, S and Yström, A. (2011) Role Confusion in Open Innovation Intermediary Arenas, forthcoming in Wittke V. and Hanekop H. (Eds.), Collaboration, production,

innovation - New forms of Collaborative Innovation and Production on the internet, Universitätsverlag Göttingen, pp 177-193.

NB: Unfortunately there was an error in the book print, authors were supposed to be in

alphabetical order, as this is a co-authored book chapter, collaboratively developed and written.

Peer-reviewed Scientific Journals

The papers that I have listed here are truly co-authored in the sense that everyone listed as author has

been active in writing the paper. It also means that not only the process of writing but also the process

of collecting and analyzing data as well as developing the conceptual ideas of the papers has been a

joint process (if nothing else is stated). “Authors appear in alphabetical order” means that the authors have been equally involved in the writing of the paper. If a main author is stated (i.e. deviating from

alphabetical order) this means that the person has taken a more active role than the other(s). For me,

writing articles is a highly collaborative activity and I usually take a very active role in driving the

process from idea to completion.

Papers in bold (7 papers) are published after my application for Associate professor (docent).

[1] Adler N., Elmquist M. and Norrgren F. (2009): The Challenge of Managing Boundary-Spanning Research Activities: Experiences from the Swedish Context, Research Policy, 38(7): 1136-1149.

Ranking: ABS 4, Citations: Scopus: 1, Google Scholar: 3

Co-authored paper (authors appear in alphabetical order), joint data collection, conceptual design,

analytical work and writing.

1 I changed my name to Elmquist in November 2006

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[2] Aggeri F., Elmquist M., and Pohl H., (2009): Managing learning in the automotive industry – the innovation race for electric vehicles, International Journal of Automotive Technology, 9 (2): 123-147.

Ranking: Not ranked in ABS, Citations: Scopus: 6, Google Scholar: 12

Co-authored paper (authors appear in alphabetical order). Data collection mainly made by

Elmquist and Pohl, joint conceptual design, analytical work and writing.

[3] Backman1, M. & Börjesson S. (2006): Vehicles for attention creation: the case of a concept car at Volvo Cars, European J. of Innovation Management 9(2): 149-160.2



analytical work and writing. Based on an empirical study from my PhD work.

[4] Backman* M, Börjesson S. & Setterberg S. (2007): Working with concepts in the fuzzy front end: exploring the context for innovation for different types of concepts at Volvo Cars, R&D

Management 37(1): 17-28.2



analytical work and writing. Based on empirical study from my PhD work.

[5] Börjesson S. & Elmquist M. (2011): Developing Capabilities for Innovation: A longitudinal

study of a project at Volvo Cars’, Journal of Creativity and Innovation Management, 20(3):

171-184.

Ranking: ABS 1, Citations: Scopus: N/A, Google Scholar: N/A (not available, too recent?)



[6] Börjesson S. & Elmquist M. (2012): Aiming at innovation: a case study of innovation

capabilities in the Swedish defense industry, International Journal of Business Innovation and

Research 6(2): 188-201.

Ranking: Not ranked in ABS, Citations: Scopus: N/A, Google Scholar: N/A


analytical work and writing

[7] Elmquist M. (2007): Vehicles for Innovation: the case of a neglected concept car project at Volvo Cars, Knowledge and Process Management 14(1): 1-14. 2

Ranking: ABS 1, Citations: Scopus: N/A, Google Scholar: 3

Single-authored paper, including own data collection. Based on empirical study from my PhD

work.

2 This paper was included in my PhD thesis (5 papers).

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[8] Elmquist M., Fredberg T. and Ollila S., (2009): Exploring the field of open innovation, European

Journal of Innovation Management, 12(3): 326-345.




[9] Elmquist, M., Fredberg, T. and Ollila, S. (2009): Open Innovation Forschung in Europa, IP

Manager- Journal for the Knowledge Economy, 3, 50-51.

Ranking: Not ranked in ABS, Citations: Scopus: N/A, Google Scholar: 0



[10] Elmquist M. and Le Masson P., (2009): The value of a failed R&D project: emerging evaluation criteria for innovation projects, R&D Management, 39(2): 139-152.



analytical work and writing. This is a revised version of a conference paper that was included in my

PhD thesis. Based on empirical study from my PhD work.

[11] Elmquist M. & Segrestin B. (2007): Towards a new logic for Front End management: From drug discovery to drug design in Pharmaceutical R&D, J. of Creativity and Innovation Management

16(2): 106-120. (Nominated as one of six finalists in the journal’s yearly best paper award competition, 2007).2

Ranking: ABS 1, Citations: Scopus: N/A, Google Scholar: 15



[12] Elmquist M. and Segrestin, B. (2009): Sustainable development through innovative design: lessons from the KCP method experimented with an automotive firm. International Journal of Automotive Technology Management, 9(2): 229-244.

Ranking: Not ranked in ABS, Citations: Scopus: 1, Google Scholar: 7



[13] Giannopoulou, E., Yström, A., Ollila, S., Fredberg, T. and Elmquist M. (2010) Implications

of Openness: A Study into (All) the Growing Literature on Open Innovation, Journal of

Technology Management & Innovation, 5(3): 162-180.


Co-authored paper, joint data collection and conceptual design, however analytical work and

writing mainly by Giannopouloul, Yström and Ollila. My role in writing this paper was very

limited.

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[14] Ollila S. and Elmquist M. (2011) Managing Open Innovation: exploring and exploiting

tensions at the interfaces of an open innovation arena, Journal of Creativity and

Innovation Management, 20(4): 273-283.

Ranking: ABS 1, Citations: Scopus: N/A, Google Scholar: N/A

Co-authored paper, joint data collection, conceptual design, analytical work and writing, however

the main literature review was made by Ollila.

[15] Pohl, H. and Elmquist, M., (2010), Radical innovation in a small firm – a hybrid electric

vehicle (HEV) development project at Volvo Cars, R&D Management 40(4): 372-382.


Co-authored paper, joint data collection, conceptual design analytical work and writing.

[16] Pohl H., Styhre A. and Elmquist M. (2009): The concept of ‘interessement’: The story of a power-split technology for hybrid electric vehicles, International Journal of Innovation

Management, 13(1): 47-64.


Co-authored paper, data collection made by Pohl and Elmquist, conceptual design mainly by

Styhre, analytical work mainly Pohl and Styhre, joint writing.

[17] Styhre A., Backman1 M & Börjesson S. (2005): YCC: a gendered carnival? Project work at Volvo Cars, Women in Management Review 20(2): 96-106.2

Ranking: Not ranked in ABS , Citations: Scopus: N/A, Google Scholar: 4


analytical work and writing. Based on empirical study from my PhD work.

[18] Styhre, A., Backman1 M & Börjesson S. (2005): The Gendered Machine: Concept Car Development at Volvo Car Corporation, Gender, Work and Organization 12(6): 551-571.


Co-authored paper, data collection made by Elmquist and Börjesson, conceptual design mainly by

Styhre, joint analytical work and writing. Based on empirical study from my PhD work, but not

included in thesis.

Research report

[1] Fredberg T., Elmquist M. and Ollila S. (2007): Managing Open Innovation – Present Findings and Future Directions, Vinnova Report VR 2008:02, Stockholm.

Citations: Google Scholar: 41

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Conference papers

[1] Adler N., Backman1 M. & Norrgren F, (2005) Managing boundary spanning research activities: Experiences from the Swedish context, European Academy of Management Conference, Munich, Germany, May 4-7. 3

[2] Adler N, Elmquist M., Frössevi B., Fredberg T. & Norrgren F, (2007) Loud killers and already-invented-here: managing change in professional organizations, Academy of Management, Philadelphia, August 4-8.

[3] Aggeri. F, Elmquist M. and Pohl H., (2008) Managing learning strategies in the automotive industry – the race for hybridization, Gerpisa Conference, Turino, Italy, June 18-20.

[4] Aggeri F., Elmquist, M. and Pohl H. (2008) Managing learning in the automotive industry– the race towards electric vehicles, Dynamics of Institutions and Markets in Europe Conference, Bordeaux, France, Sept 11-13.

[5] Aggeri. F, Elmquist M. and Pohl H., (2008) Managing innovation fields: another look at how eco-innovation capabilities are built in the automotive industry, Strategic Management Society, Köln, Germany, October 12-15.

[6] Backman1 M., (2004) Exploring Experimentation, European Academy of Management, St Andrews, Scotland, May 4-9. (Awarded best paper of the track, 2004).3

[7] Backman1 M. & Börjesson S, (2005) Vehicles for attention creation: The case of a concept car at Volvo Cars, R&D Management Conference, Pisa, Italy, July 6-8.3

[8] Backman1 M., Börjesson S. & Dahlsten F, (2004) Mirroring Images: Customer Knowledge Driven Concept Car Development at Volvo Cars, Academy of Management, New Orleans, August 7-11.3

[9] Backman1 M. & Le Masson P, Beyond R&D failure or success: managing projects from an innovation process perspective, R&D Management Conference, Windermere, UK, July 7-9, 2006.4

[10] Backman1 M. & Segrestin B, (2005) Drug design strategies: the new challenge of drug discovery departments in pharmaceutical companies”, International Product Development Management

Conference, June 12-14.

[11] Börjesson S. and Elmquist, M. (2008) Aiming at innovation in the Swedish defense industry – the difficulties of responding to disruptive market change in a technology driven context, Organizational Learning, Knowledge and Capabilities Conference, Köpenhamn, Denmark, April 28-30.

[12] Börjesson, S., Setterberg S. & Backman* M, (2004) Managing concepts in the fuzzy front end: Conceptual work at Volvo Cars”, European Academy of Management Conference, St Andrews, Scotland, May 4-9.3

[13] Carlgren L., Elmquist M. and Rauth, I. (2011) Implementing Design Thinking - An exploratory study of the benefits and challenges of using design thinking in innovation projects, the Tsinghua-

DMI International Design Management Symposium. Hong Kong, December 3-5.

[14] Elerud Tryde, A., Soonevald A. and Elmquist M. (2011) Introducing a framework for idea selection: a study of an innovation jam project at Volvo Cars, CINet Conference, Aarhus, Denmark, September 11-13.

[15] Elmquist, M., (2008) Innovation and the limits of the selection logic: Introducing generative capacity as a complement to absorptive capacity, Organizational Learning, Knowledge and

Capabilities Conference, Köpenhamn, Denmark, April 28-30. 3 Presented during my PhD studies. 4 Presented during my PhD studies and included in PhD thesis.

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[16] Elmquist, M., Fredberg, T. and Ollila S., (2009) Exploring the management of collaborative arenas from a platform perspective, the IPDM Conference, Enschede, The Netherlands, June 7-9.

[17] Elmquist M., Fredberg T. and Ollila S. (2009) Triangulating relations to explore openness of innovation, Academy of Management Conference, Chicago, August.

[18] Elmquist M., Ollila, S. and Yström A., (2011) Enabling knowledge creation among competitors: the open innovation arena, presented at the Nordic Academy of Management (NFF) Stockholm, Sweden, August 22-24.

[19] Elmquist M. and Segrestin B. (2008) Developing innovative capabilities: Lessons from an experimental process in the automotive industry using a design theory approach, European

Academy of Management Conference, Ljubliana, Slovenia, May 14-17.

[20] Elmquist M. and Segrestin B. (2008) Alternative design strategies to combine environmental and economic sustainability: Lessons from an empirical experiment with an automotive firm, Gerpisa

Conference, Turino, Italy, June 18-20.

[21] Elmquist M. and Segrestin B. (2008) Organizing open innovation in practice: a case study of an environmental innovation project in the automotive industry, International Product Development

Management Conference, Hamburg, Germany, June 29-July 1.

[22] Elmquist M. and Segrestin B. (2009) The challenges of managing open innovation in highly innovative fields: exploring the use of the KCP method, European Academy of Management

Conference, Liverpool, UK, May 11-14.

[23] Hordern T. and Elmquist M. (2008) Design in innovation: how external design firms contribute to the development of the innovative capabilities of large firms, International Society for Professional

Innovation Management Symposium, Singapore, December 14-17.

[24] Hordern, T. and Elmquist M., (2009) The Role of Design Firms in Innovation: How Design Firms Contribute to the Innovative Capabilities of Core Firms, European Academy of Management Conference, Liverpool, UK, May 11-14.

[25] Pohl H. and Elmquist M., (2008) On the way to electric cars - a case study of a hybrid electric vehicle project at Volvo Cars, R&D Management Conference, Ottawa, Canada, June 17-20.

[26] Yström, A., Ollila, S., Fredberg, T. & Elmquist, M. (2010) Communities of Practice for Open Innovation Enabling Organizational Creativity. ICICKM, 7th International Conference on Intellectual Capital & Knowledge Management, Hong Kong.

Working paper series

[1] Hordern, T. Börjesson S. and Elmquist, M. (2008): Managing Green innovation, CBI Working

Paper Series, no 10.

[2] Börjesson, S., Backman, M., Dahlsten F., Setterberg, S., (2004): Concept work at Volvo Cars, FENIX WP 2004:02

Articles submitted (or ready to submit) to scientific journals and/or in review processes

[1] Elmquist, M., Ollila S. and Yström A. The open innovation arena: Enabling knowledge creation among competitors, submitted to Industry and Innovation.



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[2] Fredberg, T., Adler N., Elmquist M., Frössevi B. and Norrgren F., Loud killers and already-invented-here: managing change in professional organizations, to be resubmitted to Journal of

Applied Behavioral Science

Co-authored paper based on data collection by Fredberg, Adler, Frössevi and Norrgren. Joint

conceptual design, analytical work and writing. Fredberg is the main author. We received review

during 2008 and have not yet continued working on the paper

[3] Elmquist M. and Segrestin S. The Challenges of managing open innovation in highly innovative fields: exploring the use of the KCP-method, will be submitted to International Journal of

Innovation Management (during November, in language proof process).



Abstracts/papers submitted to conferences

EURAM

[1] Börjesson, S. and Elmquist, M. (2011). Using action research for developing actionable knowledge on capabilities for innovation, submitted to IPDM Conference 2012.

[2] Carlgren L., Elmquist M. and Rauth I. Implementing design thinking in large organizations, submitted to IPDM Conference 2012.

[3] Elerud-Tryde, A., Börjesson S. and Elmquist, M. Idea selection at Volvo Cars - Towards a framework for selecting radical ideas, submitted to IPDM Conference 2012.

Papers currently under development

The papers that I have listed here are in different stages of development, I have tried to describe my

intentions with each paper. Titles are preliminary.

[1] Börjesson, S, Elerud-Tryde, A. and Elmquist, M. Tracking ideas to reveal organizational incapabilities.

This co-authored paper is based on a longitudinal study and will be drafted during 2011, the

intention is to submit it to International Journal of Innovation Management.

[2] Börjesson, S., and Elmquist, M. (2011) Capabilities for innovation - concepts and key notions. A conceptual article to be submitted to Strategic Management Journal.

This co-authored paper has been outlined as a conceptual contribution on the basis of a joint

longitudinal empirical study. The intention is to send it to Strategic Management Journal during

fall 2011.

[3] Börjesson, S. and Elmquist, M. (2011) Building innovation capabilities in large firm: addressing the managerial challenges.

This co-authored paper is based on a joint longitudinal empirical study. The intention is to send it

to Learning Organization during winter 2011/2012.

[4] Börjesson, S. and Elmquist, M. (2011) Idea absorption from concept cars

This co-authored paper concept is based on a joint follow up study. The intention is to develop it

during 2011/2012.

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[5] Elmquist M. Absorbing is not enough: revisiting the assumptions of R&D processes and introducing generative capacity as an integral part of innovative capabilities.

Single-authored paper based on the reasoning presented in my PhD thesis kappa. It is based on the

empirical studies I did during my PhD studies. I am planning to submit it to the International

Journal of Technology Management during 2011.

[6] Elmquist M.: Innovation in the dark: Experiences from a skunk work project

This paper has been outlined on the basis of a longitudinal empirical study where I have collected

data from a development project. The intention is to write a conference paper during 2012. It is

intended as a single-authored paper.

[7] Elmquist M. and Ollila S. A critical discussion of Open innovation

This is a co-authored paper discussing the concept of and literature on open innovation, based on

joint empirical study, but mainly conceptual.

[8] Elmquist M., Jahnke M. and Rauth I.: Design thinking and dynamic capabilities

This paper has been outlined as a conceptual paper connecting two theoretical frameworks. It is planned to be sent to a conference during autumn/winter 2011 and then be developed into a journal

paper. It will be a co-authored paper based on joint analytical work.

[9] Elmquist M., Ollila S. and Fredberg T.: Leveraging on open innovation

This paper has been outlined on the basis of our empirical study performed at SAFER. The paper is

outlined and will be developed during spring 2011 and then sent to a journal. It will be a co-authored paper based on joint analytical work.

[10] Hordern T. and Elmquist M. Prototyping in innovation – a study of the Volvo Innovation Group.

This paper has been outlined on the basis of an empirical study performed mainly by Hordern. The

intention is to write a paper describing how organizational structures can be used to include design

prototypes in innovation processes. The paper will be developed during winter 2011 and then sent to a journal. It will be a co-authored paper based on joint analytical work.

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PHD SUPERVISION

Current supervision

2011- Ingo Rauth, PhD student at the Div of Innovation Engineering and Management, with a focus on facilitation of innovation through design.

I am his main supervisor and have the main responsibility for his work (since

February). We also have a joint project where we work closely together. He is planned

to present his research proposal in December 2011 or January 2012.

2008- Lisa Carlgren, PhD student at the Div of Quality Sciences, Chalmers. With a focus on the role of design and designers in the early phases of product development. Lisa defended her licentiate thesis on September 1, 2009.

In the first phase, I was her assistant supervisor (from April 1, 2008) but I have had a

very active role with supervision meetings every other week and a very active role in

her finishing her Licentiate thesis (Sept 2009). Sverker Alänge (Quality Sciences) was

the main supervisor until the Licentiate Degree was finished on March 31, 2011 (after

Lisa was on parental leave during 2010).

From April 1, 2011, I am her main supervisor with the main responsibility for her work,

and Sverker is an assistant supervisor. We now work closely in a joint research project

and she will join our Division from January 1, 2012.

2008 – (2010) Thomas Hordern, PhD student at the Div of Innovation Engineering and Management, Chalmers, with a focus on management of design, innovation and green capabilities.

Thomas decided to leave his studies in July 2010 when he was recruited to Farenheit

212 in New York. His ambition is still to complete his Licentiate thesis during 2012.

I have had the main responsibility from the start and have done the main part of the

operational supervision with regular meetings every other week (from October 2008).

2008- Marcus Jahnke, PhD student at the Business and Design Lab at the Univ. of Göteborg, with a focus on design and innovation. Marcus held his 50% seminar on Nov 17, 2010.

I am his assistant supervisor (from July 1) and was asked to join the committee to add

an innovation perspective. I have a quite reactive role and Ulla Johansson (GU) has

the main responsibility.

Previous supervision

(2007) - 2010 Hans Pohl, industrial PhD student (Vinnova) at the Div of Operations Management, Chalmers, with a focus on radical innovation in the automotive industry.

I did not have a formal role in Hans’ committee in the beginning, but I have been

working closely with him since 2007, acting as an informal supervisor. We have also

worked together in a research project and published several papers together.

From June 2010 I had a formal role as assistant supervisor in his supervision

committee and was very active during the months before his thesis on Oct.29, 2010.

2008- 2010 Christian Sandström, PhD student at the Div of Innovation Engineering and Management, Chalmers, with a focus on disruptive innovation. Christian held his licentiate level seminar on June 16, 2009 and defended his PhD thesis on Oct. 20, 2010.

I was his assistant supervisor (from August 1) and had a quite reactive role, Mats

Magnusson ((IEM) had the main responsibility. I was very active in his process before

the licentiate thesis, passive in his last year (due to my parental leave).

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PHD TEACHING AND DEVELOPMENT ACTIVITIES

PhD teaching and course development

2011 Researching Technology Management and Economics (7,5 credits)

I was co-responsible for course design, development, delivery and examination (with

Patrik Jonsson). Course includes lectures, seminars and final assignment.

2011 Guest lecturer on “Open Innovation”, Entrepreneurship, Innovation and Economic Growth, Doctoral course organized by CIRCLE and LUCENT, Lund University, Lund.

2011 Innovation Management & Entrepreneurship (7,5 credits).

I was co-responsible for the course development, design, delivery and examination together with Sofia Börjesson. Course included lectures, seminars and a term paper.

2010 Theory and Methodology of Science (7,5 credits).

I was co-responsible for course design and development (with Patrik Jonsson).

2010 PhD course Advanced Leadership (1-day module)

I was responsible for a module on Leadership and Innovation (with Susanne Ollila). We

developed and examined the module together.

2009- 2010 Design and Innovation reading course (7,5 credits)

I was co-responsible for developing this course together with Ulla Johansson at

Göteborg Univ. I was also the co-examiner of the course. Two students were examined.

2009 Theory and Methodology of Science (7,5 credits).

I was co-responsible for course design and development (with Patrik Jonsson), but due

to my parental leave I was not involved in giving the course this first year.

2009 PhD course Advanced Leadership (1-day module)

I was co-responsible for a module on Leadership and Entrepreneurship (with Mats

Lundqvist, Susanne Ollila and Karen Williams). We developed and examined the

module together.

PhD development activities

2009- 2011 Yearly PhD student workshop, (two days), TME PhD School, Chalmers

I was responsible for the conceptual design and development of this two-day-workshop, including the process of matching PhD students with senior researchers, selecting and

inviting lecturers and plan the activities to ensure a mutual learning process. In

addition to chairing the workshop I also participated as a senior researcher myself and

coordinated the planning and execution of the event, in 2009, 2010 and 2011. It has

been a highly appreciated activity and the next workshop is planned to March 2012.

2009-2011 Internal PhD student conference, TME PhD School, Chalmers

I designed and developed the format for this internal PhD conference that I have held

at the TME department in 2009, 2010 and 2011 (it is intended as a recurring yearly

activity). I have been the responsible organizer and chair of the conference.

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2009 Study trip on Innovation & Design to San Francisco and Palo Alto, US.

I was the co-organizer of this one-week-study trip with PhD and master students from

Ecole des Mines de Paris and Chalmers (in total 24 students). Visits included SUN,

Intel, PARC, Ideo, Pixar, Stanford and UC Berkeley.

2008- 2011 Study Director for the TME PhD School,

In this role I am responsible for the academic quality of the compulsory courses and

therefore involved in the development and evaluation work of all doctoral courses given

by the Graduate school. I organize course evaluation meetings with the respective

course examiners. I also work with the overall PhD process, the web page, introduction

meeting for new PhD students, the individual study plans and the study environment at

the PhD School.

2007 Study trip on Innovation & Design to Boston, US.

I was the co-organizer of this one-week-study trip with PhD and master students from

Ecole des Mines de Paris (in total 12 students). Visits included Innocentive, Securit St Gobain, Schlumberger, Harvard Business School and MIT.

2006 PhD seminar – The Challenge of the Kappa,

I gave a seminar to the PhD students on my doctoral process at the Department of

Technology Management and Economics.

PhD student supervision development activities

2009 Supervision of PhD students, 2-day course, TME PhD School, Chalmers.

I initiated and organized a 2-day course on PhD student supervision at the department.

The course was given by Ass. Professor Jitka Lindén from Lund University. The twelve

participants were very happy with the content and the format.

2008, 2009 Workshop on PhD student supervision, TME PhD School, Chalmers

I initiated and co-organized (with Patrik Jonsson), a half-day workshop with the

supervisors at the Department to increase sharing of experiences and development of

these skills. The workshop was a success and was repeated in November 2009.

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RESEARCH FUNDING AND APPLICATIONS

Research funding (main applicant)

2011 Using Design Practices for Developing Capabilities for Innovation - CBI seed money (950 000 SEK)

This project is a pilot study that investigates the design thinking approach to innovation through an interview study in Germany and the US. The focus lies on understanding what happens when large firms implements design thinking. Main applicant and Project leader: Maria Elmquist. Project members: Lisa Carlgren and Ingo Rauth.

This project has partly been developed in collaboration with the dSchool at Hasso-

Plattner Institute in Potsdam, Germany. The application was written by me, in some

parts inspired by the proceeding project.

2010 Using design practices in innovation processes – CBI Seed Money (950 000 SEK)

This project focused on investigating existing design practices and how they could be used in innovation processes in large firms. We had an initial agreement to collaborate with Volvo IT. Main applicant and Project leader: Maria Elmquist. Project members included Henrik Berglund and Thomas Hordern.

This application was co-written by Henrik Berglund and me, however, since Thomas

Hordern decided to leave his PhD studies, the project was closed down and later

replaced by the project above.

2008 Managing Green Innovation - IMIT Strategiska forskningssatsningar (250 000)

Explorative project on green innovation at the firm level aiming at clarifying the problematic definitions of green innovation and develop the hitherto poorly understood effects and variables at a firm level. The study included both a literature overview and an interview study. Main applicant: Maria Elmquist. Project leaders: Maria Elmquist and Sofia Börjesson. Project members included Thomas Hordern and Marcus Linder.

This application was co-written by Sofia Börjesson and me.

2008 Fenix Community - KK-Foundation (250 000 SEK)

This 3-year project aimed at creating and developing a community on management research, gathering researchers that use a collaborative research approach in their work. Project leaders and main applicants: Maria Elmquist and Tobias Fredberg.

This application was co-written by Tobias Fredberg and me.

2008 Wallander fellowship for post doctoral research - Jan Wallanders Stiftelse (1 125 000 SEK)

I was awarded a 3-year research funding on the basis of my PhD thesis, to continue doing research on innovation capabilities.

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Research applications

I have also been involved in writing several applications that have received funding where I have not

been the main applicant formally but where I have had an active role.

2008 Leading and organizing open innovation - Vinnova (4 MSEK)

This is a four-year-long research project on open innovation and collaborative innovation platforms performed in collaboration with SAFER research centre on vehicle safety. The project aims at investigating how to lead and organize open innovation and how companies participating in such collaborations can leverage on the knowledge generation. This project is a joint project, developed and run collaboratively by three senior researchers, Tobias Fredberg, Susanne Ollila and myself. We have also recruited a PhD student to the project (in 2009), Anna Yström.

Since Vinnova does not allow more than one name as main applicant/project leader

Tobias Fredberg is formally the project leader, however the informal project leader has

rather been Susanne Ollila and we have all been very active as senior researchers.

Application developed jointly by Maria Elmquist, Tobias Fredberg and Susanne Ollila.

2007 Knowledge overview assignment on Open Innovation – Vinnova (200 000 SEK)

Project with the assignment to review the literature on open innovation since the notion was established in 2003. The study also included small interview study with experts in the area. Formal project leader: Tobias Fredberg, however the study was designed and delivered jointly by three senior researchers.

Application developed jointly by Maria Elmquist, Tobias Fredberg and Susanne Ollila.

2006 Leveraging on innovative arenas – RIDE (80 000 SEK)

Seed financing, the RIDE Centre, project name: “Leveraging on innovative arenas: How are new knowledge and concepts absorbed into established product development structures?” Project leader and main applicant: Sofia Börjesson.

Application developed jointly by Sofia Börjesson and Maria Elmquist.

2006 Eco-innovation in the automotive industry – Réseau Francilien de Recherche sur le Développement Soutenable, R2DS (48 000 €)

One-year post doc funding from Association Nationale de Recherche Région Ile de France. Project name was “Eco- innovation dans l’industrie automobile: modèles de gestion, compétences et partenariats : une analyse comparative France-Suède“ and aimed at studying the French and Swedish automotive industry. Project leader and main applicant: Prof. Franck Aggeri.

I participated in writing the application, but Franck Aggeri was mainly responsible.

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AWARDS AND GRANTS

2012 Named a Super talent by Swedish business magazine Veckans Affärer, ranked nr 10 on an honorary list of 101 talents.

2011 Travel grant from Knut & Alice Wallenbergs stiftelse for conference participation.

2010 Elected member of Nova Executive Network.

2009 Travel grants from Chalmers Vänner and Kurt & Alice Wallenbergs stiftelse for conference participation.

2008 Travel grants from Knut & Alice Wallenbergs stiftelse for conference participation.

2006 Travel grants from Chalmerska forskningsfonden and Ernst Gerbers Jubileumsfond for conference participations.

2005 IMIT Scholarship for young researchers (25 000).

2000 Elected member of Nova 100/Pro-Nova 100 Network, www.nova100.se – network for talented students, excelling in academic, business and social skills.

RESEARCH ACTIVITIES AND RESEARCH MANAGEMENT

Ongoing research projects

2011- Researcher, Using Design Practices for Developing Capabilities for Innovation, Project manager. Responsible for research design and managing a team with two PhD students.

2010- Researcher. Developing Capabilities for Innovation at Volvo Cars. This project is a continuation of our LEKA project, with a focus on the emergence of a radical innovation process, and an innovation forum. Project manager: Sofia Börjesson, project member is also Anne Elerud-Tryde (since Aug 2011).

2008 - Researcher, Managing Open Innovation (MOI), Collaborative research project with SAFER. Three researchers share the operational responsibility for the project (with Tobias Fredberg, formal project manager, and Susanne Ollila).

Project manager for two sub-studies within MOI: “Open innovation projects” and “Leveraging on Open Innovation”.

Previous research projects

2007- 2011 Project manager, a longitudinal study of a development project based on systematic interviews with the project manager (The skunk project).

2007 –2010 Researcher, LEKA project – Collaborative Research project on innovation capabilities at Volvo Cars, funded by Vinnova. Project manager: Sofia Börjesson.

2009 - 2010 Project manager, Prototyping for innovation, Collaborative research study with Volvo IT Innovation Group. Project member: Thomas Hordern.

2008 - 2010 Project manager (with Sofia Börjesson), Managing Green Innovation, interview study on innovative capabilities in Swedish firms. Project members: Thomas Hordern and Marcus Linder.

2006 - 2009 Researcher, longitudinal research project on Strategic alignment and change – collaboration with Prof. Michael Beer, (Harvard Business School). Project member in projects at Ericsson Microwave, UCB Pharmaceuticals, Cardo and SAAB Microwave.

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2008 Project manager, Using the KCP-method at Volvo Cars – a collaborative experiment and a sub-project in the LEKA project. Project members: Blanche Segrestin (Ecole des Mines de Paris) and Sofia Börjesson.

2007 - 2008 Project manager, Case study of hybrid project at Volvo Cars (The Desiree project), a sub-project in the LEKA project. Project member: Hans Pohl.

2007 - 2008 Researcher, Open Innovation Research Knowledge overview, funded by Vinnova. Jointly responsible for project with Tobias Fredberg and Susanne Ollila.

2007 - 2008 Researcher, Innovation capabilities and idea management, BAE Systems. Project manager: Sofia Börjesson.

2006 - 2008 Researcher, Environmental innovation strategies and innovative capabilities in the

automotive industry - collaboration with Prof. Franck Aggeri, (Ecole des Mines de Paris).

2003-2006 Researcher in Creating the Market, a longitudinal project at Volvo Cars on concept-, product development and learning strategies at Volvo Cars, project member in projects on concept work and concept development. Project manager: Flemming Norrgren.

2002-2006 Researcher in Managing Research, a research project on the managerial challenges of research consortia founded by the KK-foundation. Project manager: Niclas Adler.

2003-2004 Main researcher, ethnographic study of a concept car development project at Volvo Cars, a sub-project in the Creating the market project.

2002-2003 Researcher, Early phases of product development, a research projects at NovoNordisk. Project manager: Blanche Segrestin (Ecole des Mines de Paris).

2002 Assistant researcher, coordination and data collection in survey study, Best Practice in product development firms. Project manager: Flemming Norrgren.

ACADEMIC ASSIGMENTS

Evaluation committee

2011 Member of the evaluation committee of applications to “Konkurrenskraftig Produktion” within the funding program “Utmaningsdriven Innovation” launched by Vinnova.

Opponent

2011 Opponent, Licentiate thesis, Lisa Melander, The Insitute of Technology at Linköping University, Nov 30.

2011 Opponent, PhD thesis defense, Monika Kurkkio, Luleå University of Technology, Jan 28.

Grades Committee

2011 Member of Grades Committee, Maximilian Pasche, PhD Degree, Dept. of Technology Management and Economics, Chalmers University of Technology, Dec 1.

2011 Deputy member of Grades Committee, Amer Cacic, PhD Degree, Department of Product and Production Development, Chalmers University of Technology, Sept 29.

2010 Deputy member of Grades Committee, Karen Williams-Middleton, Dept. of Technology Management and Economics, Chalmers University of Technology. Dec 20.

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ACADEMIC LEADERSHIP

I have assumed several leadership appointments at Chalmers, both administrative and research

focused. Below I list some endeavors where I have used and developed my leadership skills the

most.

2011- Head of Division, Innovation Management and Engineering, Chalmers (since Sept 1). I am responsible for 12 co-workers, mainly researchers and doctoral students. In this role I also work closely with the Director of CBI in strategy development.

2011- Responsible for designing and running a research project (Design and Innovation), sole senior researcher with two PhD students.

2008-2011 Study Director, The Technology Management and Economics PhD student school and coordinator for the Academic board for the doctoral education. I have spent a lot of time and effort working to develop the Graduate School, increase collaboration between doctoral students and improve the docoral students’ study environment to prevent problematic situations.

2009-2010 Responsible for designing and running a research project (Prototyping project), sole senior researcher with one PhD student.

2008-2011 Co-Director for FENIX Management Research Community (with Tobias Fredberg), a three-year project financed by the KK-foundation

COLLABORATION SKILLS

I work collaboratively in most of my project. My view on research is that knowledge is best generated in collaboration set-ups, both with other researchers and with industrial partners. This has led to a broad number of research collaborations, internally (also across divisions at the Department), nationally and internationally.

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ACADEMIC REVIEWS

Academic journals

2012 Ad hoc reviewer for Long Range Planning

2011 Ad hoc reviewer for Industry and Innovation, Int. Journal of Innovation Management,

Creativity and Innovation Management Journal, Int. Journal of Product Development.

2010 - 2011 Guest editor, Special issue on Innovation Capabilities in International Journal of

Knowledge Management Studies (with Sofia Börjesson).

Unfortunately the quality of the submissions was so low that we decided to cancel its

publication, however we handled the full review process of 13 submitted papers out of

which 2 papers will be published in the regular series of the journal.

2010 Ad hoc reviewer for Industry and Innovation, Technovation, Creativity and Innovation

Management Journal

2009 Ad hoc reviewer for The International Journal of Technology Management

2008 Ad hoc reviewer for Creativity and Innovation Management Journal

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Conference paper reviewer

2011 R&D Management Conference, Norrköping, Sweden, August 28-30 (abstracts).

2011 European Academy of Management Conference, Tallin, June 1-4.

2010 European Academy of Management Conference, Rome, May 19-22.

2009 Academy of Management Conference (TIM division), Chicago Aug 7-11.

2009 European Academy of Management Conference, Liverpool, May 11-14.

2008 Academy of Management Conference (TIM and ODC divisions), Anaheim, Aug 8-13.

ACADEMIC WORKSHOPS AND CONFERENCES

Organization and faculty assignments

2013 Upcoming: Co-organizer, Track on Design and Innovation (with Marcus Jahnke and Roberto Verganti).

2012 Upcoming: Co-organizer, Workshop on Design Thinking (with Business and Design Lab, Univ. of Gothenburg)

2011 Track chair, Sustainability & Entrepreneurship, R&D Management Conference, Norrköping, June 28-30

2010-11 Co-organizer, CBI Academic Seminar series (with Sofia Börjesson).

2009-2011 Organizer, Internal PhD student Conference (3 years in a row), TME PhD School, Chalmers.

2009-2011 Organizer, TME PhD student Workshop (2-days, 3 years in a row), TME PhD School, Chalmers.

2008-2011 Co-organizer Fenix Management Community Workshops (five) in Göteborg and Stockholm (with Tobias Fredberg).

2009 Member of the Scientific Committee of the EURAM 2009 Doctoral Colloquium, May 10-11, Liverpool.

2008 Co-organizer CBI Open seminar: Managing green innovation

2008 Co-organizer International Conference on Collaborative design capabilities at Ecole des Mines de Paris, Oct 30-31, Paris (with Tobias Fredberg and team from Ecole de Mines)

2007 Responsible for internal research seminar series at the Dept of Project Management, Chalmers.

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Invited speaker

2011 Invited speaker on Design thinking in Practice, seminar at the Design faculty at UCLA Berkeley, US, (with Lisa Carlgren and Ingo Rauth).

2011 Open Innovation seminar, CGS, (with Susanne Ollila and Anna Yström), October 17.

2009 Invited speaker on Design Theory and C-K Theory, Business and Design Lab Seminar series, Göteborg University (with Blanche Segrestin), Feb 23, Göteborg.

2008 Invited speaker on Green Innovation management, internal seminar series at the Dept. of Environmental Systems Analysis (with Sofia Börjesson).

2008 Invited speaker on Generative Capacity, Thought Leadership Seminar series at the Inst. for Global Innovation Management, Northeastern University, Boston, US, June 11.

2007 Invited speaker on Innovation and Generative Capacity at the Symposium for Customer

integration and creativity, Ecole de Mines de Paris, May.

2006 Invited speaker on Managerial Challenges of Research management, Växjö University, seminar on research management.

CORE RESEARCH NETWORK

In my research I have close collaborations with several research groups outside Chalmers. I work

especially close to Ecole des Mines in Paris where I have an affiliation and have been a guest

researcher during my PhD studies as well as a one-year post doc. But I also have collaborations with

researchers in the US, in Italy and in France. In Sweden, I am mainly collaborating with researchers

at the University of Gothenburg and Luleå University of Technology. I have stated the type of

collaboration we have in parenthesis.

I also know a lot of researchers in my area, but have only chosen to include resaerchers that I have an

active collaboration/contact with in this list.

• Prof. Franch Aggeri, Ecole des Mines Paristech, France (CGS, joint research, co-authored several papers)

• Prof. Michael Beer, Harvard Business School, US (Joint research projects)

• Prof. John Bessant, University of Sussex (He is on the CBI advisory team, we are currently

discussing a research collaboration).

• Dr. Håkan Edeholt, Malmö Högskola (Co-supervision of Marcus Jahnke)

• Prof. Johan Frishammar, Luleå University of Technology, Sweden (Regular contact and ongoing discussion of joint research project, he is editor of book where I contributed).

• Prof. Keith Goffin, Cranfild University, UK. (Currently discussing a joint research project)

• Prof. Armand Hatchuel, Ecole des Mines Paristech, France (Regular contact, I have an official affiliation to his group at CGS)

• Prof. Ulla Johansson, Göteborg University, Sweden (I supervise her PhD student Marcus Jahnke, she has an informal advisory role in our research project).

• Prof. Pascal Le Masson, Ecole des Mines Paristech, France (CGS, joint research, Co-authored

several papers).

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• Dr. Claudia Nicolai, dSchool, Hasso Plattner Institute, Potsdam, Germany (We are collaborating in the Design and Innovation project).

• Prof. Gina O’Connor, Reansslaer Politechnic University, US. (She recently visited us for a seminar and she is advising us in the design of a new research project).

• Prof. Frank T Piller, RWTH Aachen, Germany (He is on the advisory board of our MOI project).

• Prof. Annika Rickne, University of Gothenburg (We are currently writing a book chapter together).

• Dr. Anna Rylander, Business & Design Lab, University of Gothenburg (several collaborations, she is assistant supervisor for my PhD student Lisa Carlgren).

• Prof. Blanche Segrestin, Ecole des Mines Paristech, France (CGS, close contact, joint research, have co-authored several papers).

• Prof. Alexander Styhre, University of Gothenburg (We have co-authored several papers).

• Prof. Roberto Verganti, Politechnico di Milano, Italy (We have developed a joint track proposal for a conference)

ACADEMIC MEMBERSHIPS

• Academy of Management, Groups: Technology Innovation and Management and Organizational Change and Development (since 2004)

• European Academy of Management (since 2004)

• Fellow of the TruePoint Centre for High Commitment and High Performance (since 2005)

• Member and coordinator of the Fenix Management Research Community (since 2008)

• Member of the Fenix Center for Innovations in management (2001-2008)

• Invited member of Exnovate, a European network for researchers on Open/Collaborative innovation (since launch in 2009)

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3. PEDAGOGIC QUALIFICATIONS

This part accounts for my pedagogical education and my supervision and teaching activities on the

master and undergraduate levels.

PEDAGOGICAL EDUCATION

Diploma

2009 Diploma of Higher Education, Chalmers (15 hcpt)

• Teaching, Supervision and Learning (3p), Oct 2008

• Supervision of Research (3p) , April 2008

• Philosophies of Learning (3p) , April 2008

• Public Science Communication (3p), May 2008

• Academic Writing (3p), May 2006

Courses

2012 New managers (Ny som chef), Chalmers (3 half days) .

2011 Performance appraisals (Medarbetarsamtal), Chalmers (1 day)

2011 Supervision Forum (Handledarforum), Chalmers (4 half days).

2009 Supervision of PhD students, 2-day course, TME PhD School, Chalmers (2-day course)

2008 Advanced Facilitation, Lorsensbergs & Vindöga Management (3-day course)

TEACHING AND SUPERVISION (UNDERGRADUATE & MASTER LEVEL)

Courses with examination

2010, 2011 The MEI seminar course

I was responsible for course development, delivery and examination. The course

consists of lectures, seminars and a term paper.

2008, 2009, 2011 Early phases of new product development (module)

I am responsible for this module that is part of the course Managing Development

Projects in the MEI master program. I am responsible for lectures, seminars and

examination of the module (part of home exam).

2006 Perspectives on early phases in complex NPD (module)

I was the discussion leader (with Sofia Börjesson) of this seminar that was part of the

MEI seminar course, in the MEI master program. We were jointly responsible for the

development and examination of module.

2002- 2003 Project course in Industry & Technology Analysis

I was the seminar leader and course coordinator for this master level course given at

the Dept. for Industrial Dynamics, Chalmers. I was responsible for seminars, course

administration and project examinations.

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2002- 2003 Group Dynamics (module)

I was the seminar leader (with Kina Mulec) for this undergraduate course module at

the Dept. for Project management, Chalmers. We were jointly responsible for module

development, seminars and examination.

Guest lecturer

2011 Guest lecturer, Master course on Innovation Management, Mines ParisTech. Lecture: “Managing Open Innovation” (w. Tobias Fredberg, Susanne Ollila and Anna Yström).

2011 Guest lecturer, Master course in Project Management at Chalmers University of Technology, Lecture: “Early phases of Product Development”.

2009, 2010 Guest lecturer, Master course Knowledge and learning in project organizations at the Div. of Construction Management, CM master program, Chalmers. Lecture: “Project management in the automotive industry - Learning from a concept car project”.

2009, 2011 Guest Lecturer, Master course Design & Strategy at Business and Design at the University of Göteborg. Lecture: “New product development and innovation”.

2009 Guest lecturer, Master course, R&D Strategy at the Div of Innovation Engineering and Management. Lecture: “Innovative design”

2008 Guest lecturer, Master course Strategy and Marketing for a Knowledge Based Business

at the School of Entrepreneurship. Lecture: “New product development and innovative Capabilities”.

Master/Candidate thesis supervision

2005-2011 I have supervised around 15 master- and candidate theses. I have also supervised many projects in various courses on master and undergraduate-levels.

PRODUCTION OF TEACHING MATERIAL

[1] Backman1 M. (2005): Projektledning i strålkastarljuset – en studie av Volvo YCC, Liber, Sweden.

My book has been used as course literature in several courses on Project Management, for

instance at Malmö Högskola.

[2] Backman1 M. (2006) Nine women and a concept car development project – The Your

Concept Car case from a project management perspective, Department of Project Management, Case text.

This case has been used by colleagues Susanne Ollila and Per Svensson in their master level

course on Project management and I have used it in a PhD course on Advanced leadership

[3] Hedström C., Elmquist M. and Norrgren F. (2011, forthcoming) Managing change: A case on

Ericsson Microwave Systems, Division of MORE, Case text.

This case is currently under development and is planned to be finalized in 2011.

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4. QUALIFICATIONS IN RELATION TO THIRD ASSIGNMENT

This part accounts for my interactions with industry, both through my role as a researcher, executive

education and external seminars. My non-scientific publications are also presented.

INDUSTRY RELATIONS & SEMINARS

Interaction with industry

2008- Working as a senior researcher at the Center for Business Innovation includes working

closely with industrial partners. In addition to the research projects, I am involved in ongoing discussions with companies on partnerships and future studies. We also organized seminars and workshops with the partners. I have also been responsible for coordinating the process of selling Business Innovation Projects (BIP) including developing sales materials and coordinating our sales efforts.

2008- Deputy board member of a small firm working with diversity and customer focused product development (Ampersand).

2003- Run a small firm where I do consulting assignments to learn from the practical side of organizational development. Between 2005 and 2009 I collaborated with a Harvard-based research center & consulting firm (Truepoint) as an associated consultant. With them I worked with a process for strategic change, doing minor expert and consulting assignments with large firms such as Ericsson Microwave, UCB Pharmaceuticals and the Cardo Group.

Seminars on research projects (selected)

In our research projects we often interact with the companies and have seminars where we present

current and ongoing work. It is a way of validating both the projects and the research results and also

an important way of disseminating knowledge in the companies.

2011 Upcoming on December 8: SAP US, Seminar on Implementation of design thinking

with interviewees (to be held in December in Palo Alto).

2011 SAFER, Seminar on research results from the “Leveraging” study (with Tobias Fredberg and Susanne Ollila).

2011 Volvo Cars Innovation Forum, Seminar on Innovation capabilities

2011 SAFER Board meeting, Seminar on Innovation capabilities

2008 Volvo Cars, Seminar on the KCP-method (with Blanche Segrestin and Sofia Börjesson)

2008 BAE Systems, Seminar on innovation capabilities and idea management (with Sofia Börjesson).

2005 Volvo Cars, Seminar on project management in the YCC project.

2005 Volvo Cars, Seminar on customer knowledge (with Fredrik Dahlsten).

2005 RATP, Seminar series on innovative design, Paris (with Pascal le Masson).

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2004 Volvo Cars, Seminar on concept work (with research group).

2003 Novo Nordisk, Seminar on early phases of R&D (with Blanche Segrestin).

Invited speaker

I am sometimes also invited as an expert to conduct seminars at companies, without having had any

research collaborations with them.

2011 Cardo Group, Lohmar, Germany (with Sofia Börjesson)

2010 Tetra Pak, Lund (with Blanche Segrestin)

2007 Astra Zeneca internal Project Management seminar, Lund

2006 Sigma nBit internal Project management seminar, Gothenburg

2006 Seminar on innovation with UCB Pharmaceuticals, Paris

2006 Management team meeting, Ericsson Customer Services, Kista

2006 Internal Astra Zeneca Project Management seminar, Gothenburg

2005 Management team meeting, Volvo Cars Powertrain, Gothenburg

2004 Arena seminar on Project Management, Wenell Management

2004 Team meeting, Renault Pôle d’Innovation, Paris

2004 Ruter Dam seminar, Gothenburg

Organization of practice oriented events

2010 Co-organizer CBI-Day, project leader (with Jan Wickenberg).

The CBI-day is a full day event where we invite practitioners to learn from ongoing

research and exchange experiences.

EXECUTIVE EDUCATION

2011 Upcoming: CHAMPS Program Director for the Panorama Program,

I am the program director for an open development program for advanced project managers. I am responsible for design, content, planning and execution of the program

that is built around three one-week-modules. First module starts on Nov 14, 2011.

2009- CHESS Program Director

I am responsible for a seminar series on R&D Management and Innovation at

CHAMPS (with Sofia Börjesson). We select and invite the speakers and are responsible for designing the seminar outline with them. We also host the seminars.

2008 CHAMPS Program Director for the Challenger Program,

I am the program director for an internal development program for advanced project

managers from the Volvo Group. I am responsible for design, content, planning and

execution of the program that is built around three one-week-modules in an international setting. Course evaluation: 4,7/5.

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2008 CHAMPS, Assisting Program Director for The Panorama Program,

I was the assisting program director for one module of an open development program

for advanced project managers (one week).

2002-2006 Program coordinator, Fenix Forskningsledarakademi

I was the program coordinator for four generations of research management programs

(7 days each), funded by the KK-foundation. The participants were research program

managers from diverse universities and disciplines. I participated in the design and

development of the program and was responsible for planning and execution.

POPULAR PUBLICATIONS

Popular Science Publications

MOT 2012

[1] Elmquist M. and Le Masson P. (2007): Prototyper en l’innovation innovante, in Le Masson P. and Gardey de Soos P. (2007) La RATP et les enjeux de la compétition par l’innovation, RATP Prospective, Nr 145 Paris, pp 59-75.

[2] Elmquist M. and Le Masson P. (2007): L’evaluation des projets innovants, in Le Masson P. and Gardey de Soos P. (2007) La RATP et les enjeux de la compétition par l’innovation, RATP Prospective, Nr 145 Paris, pp. 99-118.

[3] Elmquist M. (2007): Utveckla innovationsförmågan – lägg tid på att skapa kunskap och idéer, Management of Technology, IMIT, Nr 2, p7-9.

[4] Elmquist M. (2006): YCC- Ingen kvinnobil, Management of Technology, IMIT, Nr 1, p6-7.

Popular Science Publications (by others about my research)

[1] Formo, H, (2009): Livet etter kvinnebilen, MOTOR (Norge), Februari, p38-40.

[2] Wikström, L. (2008): Avundssjuka stoppade konceptbil, Affärsvälden, Nr. 9, p.48-49.

[3] Karlén Å., (2007): Storföretagen har inte tid med innovation, Entré, Institutet för entreprenörskaps- och småföretagsforskning, Nr 2, p8.

[4] Jalakas I., (2004): The real challenge, Agenda Magazine (Volvo internal magazine), Nr 10, p29.

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