1 / 17

Welcome to KTH

Welcome to KTH. KTH, the Royal Institute of Technology Excellence in Education, Research and Entrepreneurship. Professor Anders Flodström, President.

dai
Download Presentation

Welcome to KTH

An Image/Link below is provided (as is) to download presentation Download Policy: Content on the Website is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use and may not be sold / licensed / shared on other websites without getting consent from its author. Content is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use only. Download presentation by click this link. While downloading, if for some reason you are not able to download a presentation, the publisher may have deleted the file from their server. During download, if you can't get a presentation, the file might be deleted by the publisher.

E N D

Presentation Transcript

  1. Welcome to KTH KTH, the Royal Institute of Technology Excellence in Education, Research and Entrepreneurship

  2. Professor Anders Flodström, President • Professor Anders Flodström, the President of The Royal Institute of Technology (KTH) was born in 1944. He graduated from the Faculty of Engineering of the University of Linköping, Sweden in 1970 and received his Ph.D from there in 1975. He became a professor in material physics in the Faculty of Engineering at KTH, in 1985 and served there as the dean of the Faculty of Engineering from 1988-1991. He was appointed to the President of KTH, in 1999. • Professor Anders Flodström is a former researcher at Xerox Palo Alto Research Center and National Institute of Science and Technology. He has also been CEO of the Knowledge Foundation, established by the Swedish Parliament in 1994. He is a former Secretary General of The Swedish Research Council for the Engineering Science and a former President of Linköping University

  3. Science and Technology Universities in the Future? • Comprehensive Disciplinary • Comprehensive Thematic

  4. History • Innocentius VII • Humboldt • Industrial Revolution and Napoleon • Science Revolution • Computer Revolution • Communication Revolution • Dream Revolution

  5. Trends (1) • New Economy or the New Product is the King • Globalization • New Regions • Science and Technology in the Centre

  6. Trends (2) • Rebirth of the generic disciplines; new and old ones • New “ mixed” technology systems, the role of medicine, economics, social sciences and humanities; all universities will in the future be comprehensive • Design and dreams • Demand and curiosity; conflict or synergy

  7. Trends (3) • ”New” economies • 1000 million from poverty to middle classes • China; the global factory • India; the global IT provider

  8. Trends (4) • New products • New infrastructure • Lead time between strategic basic research and product development shorter and shorter • Innovations and entrepreneurs

  9. Higher Education • 50 % in all OECD countries • Harmonisation in Europe and globally; market for services • Ranking; Ramboll, McKinsey, .. • Informed students • Competition

  10. Research within Science and Technology • Meta-centres • Blue Skies and Strategic • Vertical and Horizontal Integration

  11. A New Mission • A new university concept • Commercialization • The good university

  12. Economic Growth • Local, regional, national and global innovation system have become a corner stone in industrial development and thus in creating prosperity

  13. Entrepreneurs and Innovators • As in football; players and coaches • Offensive, middle field and defense

  14. An all Integrated Business • Seed capital and research grants • Start houses • Intellectual properties

  15. View of the Politicians • The best policy is no policy, growth will come and go anyway • Few examples of sustainability • Underlying macroeconomics and infrastructure more important: also attracts more voters • Regional

  16. KTH or Sweden and China • Doctoral students from the 80s and 90s • Master’s students, doctoral students and post-doctoral researchers • Five joint research centres • Two Swedish campuses • Cooperation for joint development or naivety?

  17. Nobel Prize winners • 758 individuals and 18 organizations have been awarded the Nobel Prize. Some Laureates and organizations have been awarded more than one time. • 33 Nobel Prize Winners are women and 725 are men.

More Related